Calmbirth Blog
Articles and stories from Calmbirth’s educators
The Power of Visualisation…
Birth Preparation
Have you started visualising your labour and birth yet? Imagine the sensations, the feelings… What is your partner/ support person doing to keep you centred and grounded? What’s the mood…
Multiple Birth Awareness Week 2022…
Parenting
It wasn’t until one of my friends had twins did I understand the gravity of growing, nurturing and nourishing multiples, despite caring for many families as a Midwife and Maternal…
The birth of my daughter and lifting her up onto my chest was the most magical and empowering experience.
Birth Stories
I had two transformative and empowering labour and birthing experiences, both supported with only the use of the Bliss Birth TENS machine and an amazing holding circle of support including…
How the TENS transformed Amy’s birth to a blissful birth experience
Birth Stories
The Bliss Birth TENS machine was my best friend, I loved the control it gave me and the boost button providing that additional hit of relief allowing me to continue…
Getting To Know Calmbirth Educator Bec Rogers
Educators
Bec Rogers is a wife, a mother and has been a midwife for over 11 years practicing her entire career where she trained at the Royal North Shore Hospital in…
Calmbirth baby Heath Kam Knightly Harker is born…
Birth Stories
Welcome Heath Kam Knightly Harker - WOW what a story! "I pushed the baby out painfree at 2:08am. I didn't even feel a thing despite not having an epidural. The…
Getting To Know Calmbirth Educator Kirsty Crimmins
Educators
Kirsty is a midwife, nurse, Calmbirth Educator, mum to a beautiful boy and passionate about all things pregnancy, birth and postpartum. As a midwife I have the amazing privilege of…
The Fourth Trimester – Setting yourself up for a well supported fourth trimester – so that you can focus on rest, recovery, bonding and breastfeeding
Birth Stories
The 4th trimester is known as the 12 week period following the birth of your baby. It is a time for rest, recovery, bonding and establishing breastfeeding (if you are…