Calmbirth Blog
Articles and stories from Calmbirth’s educators
Getting To Know Calmbirth Educator Shanae Paratore
Educators
Ciao! I'm Shanae, a passionate advocate for empowering women and their families on their journey through matrescence. With a rich background in nursing, midwifery, and lactation consulting, I've dedicated my…
Despite it not being our preferred birth journey it was still an empowered birth and the one we needed to go on to have our beautiful baby
Birth Stories
My husband and I are happy to share our birth journey in the hopes it might help other couples. It wasn't the journey we would have preferred but it gave…
Madison’s long and intense birth
Birth Stories
My labour was extremely long and intense and while it wasn’t my dream birth, I am very proud of how myself, Kane and bub handled each curve ball (and there…
Mastitis
Postnatal Care
We all know that for some women breastfeeding can be challenging at the best of times for many different reasons but throw mastitis in the mix and it can be…
My little girl needed a little help getting out of the ‘coziness’ of her mum
Birth Stories
Although not everything went the way we had thought, we went into it having a mindset that we wanted a healthy baby and mumma from the birth and we were…
Brooke’s Birth Story
Birth Stories
I was surprised how much I was able to enjoy our birth and how present I was able to be. I am so grateful that Tom and I had the…
Remember there are NO – ‘dumb questions’ – just one you don’t have an answer to right now.
Birth Preparation
A lot of the fear around birth and birth trauma today comes from fear of the unknown, lack of knowledge, feeling of being out of control, feeling things were ‘done…
Our baby boy was the perfect birth born in the water and under the ‘tree of life’!
Birth Stories
I couldn’t believe it! It was the most perfect birth I could have hoped which I don’t think would have been possible without the support of Liam, our midwife and…
Labour and birth was such an intense experience but my partner and I navigated it as a team – like a well oiled machine!
Birth Stories
As we enjoyed the first skin to skin contact with our daughter I felt an overwhelming sense of pride. Labour and birth was such an intense experience but my partner…