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I had my 38 week appointment on Wednesday and baby’s head was down but not down low enough unfortunately. My midwife told me she didn’t think baby would be here for another few weeks yet. I left feeling really disappointed because I was determined to have this baby before Christmas. I had been doing...
On 26 December 2022 we welcomed our little boy Leo, in a dream natural birth. You might remember our little guy was breech at 32 weeks, thankfully he turned by 36 weeks. I ended up going into spontaneous labour at 38 weeks exactly, on Christmas night.
We laboured at home starting late o
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Hi Amy,
Just wanted to send you a quick email to let you know of the safe arrival of our little man Hudson. He was born 2/2/23 at 2.12am.
Our labour and birth was amazing and went pretty much perfectly. I was able to labour at home until contractions were too much. We arrived at hospital
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“We had the most beautiful birth experience, and we owe it all to you and your Calmbirth course”
It was not to plan but I was more aware of the choices I could make for myself and baby. I ended up being GBS positive, my waters broke naturally at 12:30am 19/01, I tried to fight it as I had not had m...
After attending your Calmbirth course in January, we felt much more prepared for the whole labour process. Nothing could’ve fully prepared me for the intensity of the pain though! I found myself hitting a mental block halfway through advanced labour, but the practical strategies from the Calmbirth c...
I felt completely in control the entire time and was able to make informed choices along the way. THANK YOU for playing such a huge role in our positive experience. I know the education you provided us with had the biggest impact and it was the best investment we could have made.
From the botto...
Both Joel and I thought that our baby might make her grand entrance in the car, and then in the car park and then the hospital lobby. Luckily we just made it to the birth suite in time for her head to be visible.
I had had a textbook pregnancy until 36 weeks and after preparing with a Calmbirth course and putting together birth preferences that centred around a vaginal delivery, I had no reason to think about anything other than manifesting a spontaneous onset of labour at around 40 weeks. At 36 weeks,...
My waters dramatically broke at midnight, and contractions quickly followed. Not even an hour later, they were 5mins apart and almost one minute long. It was then that I noticed quite a bit of meconium stained liquor on my pad. We called the midwife. After a 40min car trip we arrived to the
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I’d had braxton hicks for weeks, which weren’t painful, just a tightening sensation. When mild contractions started on Thursday night I knew they were different, more like a period cramp. They were mild and infrequent through Friday, we did a nature hike, went out for coffee, and watched nostalg
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It was Thursday the 4th of April. I was 39+6 and hoping something might happen soon. I had IRGDM and talks of an induction had been thrown around. I was desperate to go into spontaneous labour and had been doing everything under the sun to make that happen.
Lots of curb walking, expressing, acu...
I thought I’d share my story as a successful primip induction!
I had been declining an induction since 39 weeks for static fundal height, as my baby was active and the pregnancy had been otherwise low risk. I desperately wanted to wait for spontaneous labour, but by 41 weeks I had barely had a
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