Calmbirth®
What is Calmbirth®?
EVIDENCE-BASED, CLINICALLY & SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN
Calmbirth® is a 12 hour face to face antenatal program. The Calmbirth® program includes psychological and emotional preparation for childbirth. You will learn how to retrain your response to stress so that you can work with birth on all levels. It teaches you to be proactive in your birth as opposed to reactive. The program includes fear release techniques through guided relaxation, as a means to facilitate emotional subconscious healing to help you move past any negative emotions around birth.
What we cover…
THE COURSE OUTLINE
Understanding the psychology of birth and how your mental state, thoughts and beliefs leading up to and on the day, not only dictates your experience of birth, but also the way your body works with labour and birth.
The physiology of birth – explains the four stages of labour and how your body prepares itself to give birth.
Tools to work with birth – techniques and practical skills that assist you mentally and physically such as: visualisations, meditation, massage, acupressure, and active birth positioning.
Defines the role of the partner and what they can do to help support you on the day emotionally and physically, as well as how to work together as a team. Calmbirth gives partners their own birth toolbox to work with birth on the day.
Preparation for all birth journeys – working with other possibilities like, inductions of labour and caesarean section.
Conscious parenting – Birthing conscious parents. Here we explore the prenatal bonding, skin to skin contact and postnatal bonding, connection and attachment to your baby. Setting realistic expectations and ‘planting the seed’ beyond birth for the transition to parenting to understand what children need to develop and thrive.
Learning the importance of self care during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period.
Leaders in childbirth education, training, research and changing our birth culture.
Calmbirth® is the ONLY childbirth education program that requires ALL its educators to be practising midwives or trained birth professionals. As a Calmbirth® educator, I am required to keep up with professional development.
It is also one of the first childbirth education programs to be evidence based, clinically and scientifically proven to:
reduce the rates of medical intervention
reduce the use of pain relief and epidurals during childbirth
reduce the impact of perinatal anxiety and postnatal depression in women after childbirth, and
enrich their birth experience as positive, irrespective of how they birth.