About Birthing

Birthing a baby is the most incredible experience most women will ever have. It is a universal and primal process, that entwines you with every mother on the planet.

Your birth, is the time in your life, where you truly surrender to your body, and experience its power. Your baby’s entry to this world, is in your hands, and this is the opportunity to create the most amazing start to a human’s life.

Your Birthing Team

Your birthing team can consist of just you and your baby, or a support team consisting of your partner, a midwife, a doula, and your older children. Here are some thoughts to get you started choosing your birthing team.

Birthing Classes

There are several theories surrounding gentle and calm birth. Many of them are now supported in hospitals, if that is the place you choose to birth your child. If you have chosen a hospital birth, it is a good idea to discuss with your care provider, the type of birth you’re hoping to have. Their support in the hospital system will be invaluable.

If you’re homebirthing, you have the flexibility to birth your baby how you choose. Selecting methods and ideas that appeal to you.

Lamaze

Established by Fernand Lamaze in 1951, the Lamaze method is centred around the idea that pregnancy and birth is natural and normal. Read More…

Leboyer

Frederik Leboyer, the pioneer of gentle birth, was a French Obstetrician who popularised the idea of birth without trauma, and birthing your baby into a warm bath, with dim lights. Read More here.

Grantley Dick Read

Grantley Dick Read is considered to be the father of the ‘modern natural birthing’ movement. Opposing the rigid obstetrical system in the early 1900s, Dick-Read encouraged women to be active participators in their births. Read More here

Water Birthing

Popularised by Michael Odent, a French Physician, birthing in water has many advantages. Water births can facilitate a calm an gentle environment for mother and baby, and the water has amazing pain relief properties. Read More here

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