I believed I could – I kept saying “I can do anything for one minute!”

This mumma knew she needed to lean into herself, come to @calmbirth and learn how powerful her body is. She contacted me at the last minute after trying to find a local course (without success), knowing she needed to empower herself. She told stories of long-held trust issues with her body, and this being a ‘surprise’ pregnancy had her on the back foot. But she put the work in, committed herself to the practice and left her birth feeling “in awe” of herself. Read on for the details.

Birth Story

“Hi Elly – just wanted to update.

We had our beautiful baby girl Rylee Anne-Maree Darlington on 17/02/26 at 0117hrs weighing 8 pounds 3 ounces. 53cm long and 35.5cm head circumference. She is pure perfection.

My hindwaters spontaneously broke on my due date at 4am. We had a 44 hour long latent labour phase with a 5 hour active labour phase, 8 mins pushing no pain relief other than TENS, water injections (once because that pain is worse than childbirth ) and the use of the shower/bath.

Calmbirth helped so incredibly much with our education and understanding of the process. Jayden was so confident in helping. I had a couple days use of the TENS machine, and it was truly so helpful! The breathing and visualisation made such a difference

I ended up needing syntocinon and having my waters broken because babies head wasn’t properly applying to my cervix due to my forewaters. Once my forewaters were broken we immediately went into transition and not long after pushing! I pushed her out on my hands and knees in the shower! Unfortunately, we could not use the birthing pool because they had no liners.

Although this birth was everything I could have imagined it to be – going from believing I would never be able to have a natural delivery to doing it without pain relief still has me in awe of myself but I truly think that should be attributed to my midwife, but also Calmbirth !!! because you made me feel so confident and so educated going into this that I believed I could. I kept saying “I can do anything for one minute!”

There’s still space in the March course. To BOOK this course go to: https://calmbirth.com.au/educators-profile/?edid=225