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Zariah's Home Birth Story
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Here’s our baby girls birth story - everything we learnt in the Calmbirth Course helped us to achieve such beautiful, peaceful, and empowered birth.
Getting to know Calmbirth Educator, Chenae Longstaff
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Chenae is a registered Calmbirth educator in New Zealand. She has worked as a midwife since 2018, both in the community and hospital. Chenae loves working with couples during this sacred journey and has a passion for educating couples on physiological birth. She brings this passion into her work as a Calmbirth educator with the intention of helping as many people as she can feel comfortable and excited about the birth of their baby.
Getting to know Calmbirth Educator, Hattie Nairn
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I’m Hattie - a Privately Practicing Midwife, Maternal and Child Health Nurse, Lactation Consultant, Calmbirth Educator and, my most important title: the mother of three precious little people.
Ida’s Calmbirth story - told by her dad.
Birth Stories
"This story is extra special, it’s not every day I receive a birth story from a dad. Thank you, Mark, for sharing. I think this is only the second dad’s story I’ve ever had come in."
Testimonials
Sheridan made us feel so comfortable and explained things clearly and concisely in a way we were able to understand. The knowledge Sheridan shared with us really set us up for a positive labour and birth experience. She is so passionate about her job and Calmbirth, we are so grateful to have found you!
T&N
Sheridan taught us so much about Calmbirth; she completely changed my beliefs on birth and labour and gave my husband and I great insight into how labour/birth can be for us and gave us the tools to implement to have a calm birth. I liked Sheridan's calm approach and how she could answer questions with statistics.
N&B
Sheridan was very knowledgeable and presented with a genuine love of teaching about Calmbirth and birth in general. Sheridan's enthusiasm was infectious, she always made us feel welcomed and engaged in the content. We both feel like we are well prepared for our first birth.
J&B
Calmbirth with Sheridan Caesarean course was a great course with an awesome teacher. We felt this course was so informative and now have an understanding of our options for birth and what to expect afterwards.
K&M
Sheridan is so passionate and knowledgeable about birth. Sheridan is very approachable and we felt comfortable to ask questions - she always took the time to answer.
L&L
Sheridan is a great presenter and made the session fun and interactive without being too overwhelming or dry. We enjoyed learning about the hormones of labour and how we can support these through our birth. Calmbirth has encouraged me to trust my body and has given me the confidence to birth!
L&K
Sheridan is a friendly and approachable presenter. Calmbirth covered the full spectrum of birth and provided opportunities to practice relaxation techniques for birth and beyond. We really enjoyed the small group size, snacks and location and leave Calmbirth with a better understanding of our choices & confidence.
C&T
Sheridan is amazing and helped us understand physiological birth. I'm now feeling empowered from the knowledge I have learned and confident about birth.
K&K
Calmbirth helped me be comfortable with my beliefs around birth. Sheridan has amazing knowledge and created an open environment to learn and ask questions. I liked that the course had a good balance between types of births and possibilities, and practicing relaxation techniques.
B&E
Sheridan was absolutely amazing, very educated on everything pregnancy, birth and post natal. I went from being an anxious mess about birth to feeling empowered. My husband also learnt so much and is now ready to tackle labour as my support person!
H&D
"I just wanted to thank you again for your amazing caesarean section course, it helped pave the path to the most healing birth for us. Baby W was born on in just the most beautiful moment."
R&S