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Couples and Mothers tell how the Calmbirth® Canberra experience helped during the birth.
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Just wanted to say thanks for all the Calmbirth tips, they really paid off. My son Eden's birth was even better than my daughter Nova's.
I spent most of the labor at home riding the waves and focusing on my cervix opening like a flower. At times I was not even sure if I was in labor as the intensity of the waves varied from mild to strong. When the contractions were 7 minutes apart and I was a bit 'pushy' at the end of each one I called the midwife. She said we should go to the birth centre. A few more contractions while Derek finished putting Nova to bed, we threw the bags in the car and got to the Birth Centre at 10:10pm. I had few contractions standing up then got down on the matt on the floor and started pushing. Eden was born at 10:44pm. No drugs, no interventions and no tears,
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Hi Tracey,
Thank you so much for your thoughtful gift, I am sure I will get plenty of use out of it in teh coming, months, years and decades.
Ethan Scott Emerton was born on the Thursday 14, as you know. I had a relatively easy time at the birth. My water broke at 1pm on Wednesday so we went in to hospital for some antibiotics and to get checked out. I had had mild period like pains all day but they started to get serious at about 6pm. I was calm, confident and enthused about going into labour even though it was a bit early, and I can honestly say that my confidence came solely from having attended the calmbirth classes.
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"Over the past few days, I've been thinking about what was my mental/emotional turning point during the pregnancy. I believe the Birth Rehersal on Calmbirth Disc 2 had the most influence on me. At first I would listen to it with very little visualisation but within a few weeks I began to construct my labour/birth in my mind. Each time, I would see it more clearly & began to 'feel' how I wanted it to feel. Emotionally, I was moving from being a 'IVF patient' to a woman about to birth her baby.
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Hi Tracey,
Ranga and I did the calmbirth weekend course in May.
Our beautiful son Poson was born on 7 June at the birth centre. The birth
was a great success - I breathed my way through 11hrs of contractions
(although I'd had intermittant contractions for the 24hrs leading up to the
labour so I was quite tired). When I was 8cms Poson was quite far up the
birthing canal and our midwife Tash suggested I sit with my legs apart
trying to ease his way down. 3hrs later when she did the next VE I was 10cms
and Poson was right at the end of the canal ready to come out! Stage 2
lasted 27minutes and Tash said I did a great job of breathing him down.
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"Kerry went into Labour naturally at ~10pm Wednesday, we arrived at the John James hospital at 3am. With the calm birth Cd playing in the background we managed the surges/waves/contractions by walking & keeping moving in the delivery room with much swaying & focused deep breathing during the most intense periods. At ~6am Kerry’s legs were quite tired so she jumped into the bath & floated (entered a zone) until ~8:30am.
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