Labour was incredible; it truly was a case of “don’t think, just do”!

Little Tigran Fabricatorian, born 15/7/24 at 7:32am, 3.325kg, 51cm. we are doing well after a slightly exhausting 28hr labour. But we are absolutely loving his cute little face.

On the 12th of June our daughter was born.

We did not expect to have such a fast labour being a first time mum, thankfully the education we got from attending the Calmbirth course prepared us for labour and birth from recognising the signs of labour to using the breathing techniques that helped us enormously as our labour was approaching faster than expected. Calmbirth also gave us the tools that we could lean on during such a spontaneous labour where we had no time to gather comfort measures to assist with the pain leading us to utilise the primary tool of breath work. The labour started and ended within 3 hours of the first sign right up to heading to the hospital and our little girl being born.

My pregnancy was our first after years of trying naturally, 4 rounds of IVF, and 7 embryo transfers. Throughout that journey, I lost a lot of confidence in myself and my body. Attending Calmbirth and working towards a physiological birth was a very conscious attempt to regain that confidence.

Ravi George Petterson (affectionately known as Sonny or lil Ravioli) arrived on Monday 3/6/24 at 00:58 bum first via the sunroof, weighing a healthy 3.2kg.