So, my birth story starts back a few days before labour started and before baby arrived. It was the Thursday before Caleb was born and we saw our obstetrician for a check up, as we had been weekly and at 41 weeks Caleb was measuring big but still sitting high – my cervix hadn’t opened up at all and he could still be bounced out of the pelvis.

On my due date I decided to treat myself, I’d made it (!!) and I wanted to celebrate and hit that oxytocin! After a sneaky hashbrown, a coffee from my favourite cafe and lunch outside with my mum and Gran I was feeling great. I had a Bowen treatment and then headed home.
That night our microwave broke and I remember thinking to myself, I have a feeling this is a bad night not to have a heat pack and so Mat went out to buy me a hot water bottle (spoiler alert, I was right!)

In August 2023, I was told I had an extremely low egg count. We did egg collections in December 2023 and February 2024, but conceived naturally in February 2024. We sadly lost that baby, but conceived naturally again in July 2024.

We were one of your July Calmbirth couples (me a vicariously traumatized Paediatrician and Chris a hippie)

This is a message of immense gratitude. Our son Frankie was born yesterday. Very nearly in the gutter of the hospital car park.

I’m so pleased to share that Michael and I had another beautiful birth, welcoming our second daughter, Piera on 16/08/2025. Having completed Amy’s Calmbirth course with our first daughter in 2023, Michael and I felt more confident and prepared going into the birth of our second babe. Although, I’ll admit, the thought of actually having to give birth again came with nerves!