My wife and I attended a Calmbirth class when we hit our third trimester. We wanted to prepare for our baby’s arrival with as much knowledge as possible, and Calmbirth delivered!

I would say that birth has shown me how incredibly strong and capable our bodies are and the importance of listening to them. I think learning to listen to our intuition is such an important practice to take into motherhood.

Thank YOU Karen I hope you know how much of an influence you’ve had on my mindset and thoughts around birth. I was so excited to share our birth story. I feel so strongly about the work Calmbirth is doing in this space.

I have a birth story to share with you for our 2nd Calmbirth baby on the 04/04/24. Our first birth had a few cascades of events and I was determined to have a natural physiological birth this time around. I read the Ina May Gaskin book too. Words won’t cut it but I had a complete natural birth, right from the beginning to end. It’s a story I’d love to share to give other Mumma’s hope the 2nd time round.

After waking to spontaneous rupture of membrane, we headed to the hospital. We had our baby 4 weeks early and we had many pivots throughout our birth plan that were deemed medically necessary. My husband was a wonderful support to me throughout pregnancy, birth and now and remained calm despite my distress, which in turn helped me to cope. We set the mood in our birth room with music, low lighting, few staff and beautiful essential oils. I understood what physiological changes were happening to my body as labour progressed and despite my fears, had some confidence going into birth which certainly helped us to understand our pivots and why. Thank you to Karen for delivering such a wonderful program that helped us to be active in our decision making for the birth of our baby boy.

Rob and I welcomed Rory into the world on 6th of March. He was born via a (last minute) planned c section on advice of our obstetrician because of position and size. This was a very hard decision, and certainly not what had been the plan. Ultimately though it ended up being best for Rory and I.

Rob and I both found Calm birth breathing techniques and visualisation really helpful during Rory’s birth and played music we loved. We were supported in doing skin to skin quickly.