Zara's Story

 Zara is our second child and the birth of our son was quite a traumatic event.  After planning for a natural birth with him, the labour lasted a very long 30 hours, I ended up having an epidural for pain relief and our son was eventually pulled out by ventouse delivery.  His birth definitely didn't go to plan and although I tried to look back on the event as a positive one - after all it brought our gorgeous son into the world - it did leave me completely petrified to have a another baby and give birth again.

 I eventually came around and we got pregnant again, and again we planned for a natural birth.  When I was about 32 weeks pregnant my husband went away on business for a few days and while he was away he met Tracey and found out about what she did.  There was a real connection there and a feeling like we should take the Calm Birth course so a few weeks later we did.

I was fortunate enough to experience a smooth and comfortable second pregnancy and looked forward to birthing our baby naturally through the techniques we had gathered at the Calmbirth courses we attended during both pregnancies. I had the most empowering birth with our first child Finn that my only fear leading into this birth was that it wouldn’t be as calm and positive, and if it wasn’t I would be hugely disappointed. To challenge this fear I took time out to prepare myself, mentally and physically and surrendered to whatever birthing experience I was presented with.