Birthing classes are a great way to prepare for the big day when your baby arrives. If you’re looking for an effective, holistic, evidence-based antenatal class that can help you and your partner feel more connected and confident, then you should consider a Calmbirth class. Calmbirth is an evidenced-based birthing class focused on helping you prepare emotionally, mentally, and physically for a calm and positive birth experience. Choosing the right birthing class for your pregnancy can be a daunting task. With so many different classes and methods out there, it can be hard to decide which one is right for you.
If you are looking for a birthing class that is focused on helping you feel calm and relaxed throughout your pregnancy and labour and birth, then a Calmbirth class may be a perfect choice. Calmbirth classes are specifically designed to help you feel more empowered, more confident and more prepared for the birth of your baby, through learning about what actually happens during birth, and having the opportunity to ask questions.
What is Calmbirth?
The Calmbirth program is a comprehensive birth preparation program based on research from neuroscience, midwifery, obstetrics and epigenetics. The program focuses on understanding the mind-body connection in childbirth and how a woman’s emotional state can influence birth. The goal of Calmbirth is to help couples prepare for the best birth possible with confidence and without fear. Calmbirth birthing classes, provide expectant parents with the knowledge and skills they need to birth their baby. People who attend Calmbirth workshops will learn evidence-based childbirth skills that encourage calm, safe and confident births.
Birth preparation using the Calmbirth techniques empowers you to learn the process of labour and delivery, become informed decision-makers and teaches couples how to work together as a team during labour and birth. By trusting your body’s natural ability to give birth without fear and embracing each step in the process, you can experience the best birth possible – whatever that looks like for you. With this unique blend of education, relaxation and breathing techniques, you’ll be better prepared than ever before to trust your body, face your fears, and ultimately experience the positive power of labour and birth!
What are the benefits of taking a Calmbirth Course?
The philosophy behind Calmbirth is that with knowledge comes confidence. When you understand what is happening during labour and birth, you can approach the experience with confidence instead of fear. One of the unique aspects of the Calmbirth Course is that it prepares both partners for the birthing experience. Too often, partners are left out of the conversation when it comes to birth preparation. However, research has shown that when partners are involved in the birthing process, mothers have shorter labours with fewer interventions. Partners who take the Calmbirth course report feeling more confident and prepared for the big day. They also report feeling more connected to their birthing partner during labour and birth. Taking a Calmbirth class can help reduce your fear and anxiety about childbirth and increase your confidence in your ability to give birth. The classes are taught by experienced birth professionals who are passionate about helping women have positive birth experiences.
If you’re considering taking a Calmbirth class, here are three reasons why it’s important:
You’ll Be Informed About Your Options
One of the main goals of Calmbirth is to provide expectant parents with unbiased information about their options for childbirth. You’ll learn about the various interventions that are available to you, as well as the risks and benefits of each one. This way, you’ll be able to make informed choices about your birth that are right for you.
You’ll Be Prepared for Childbirth
Calmbirth classes will help prepare you physically, mentally, and emotionally for childbirth. The classes focus on breathing and relaxation techniques that can help ease pain during labour. You’ll also learn about the stages of labour and what to expect during each one. By taking a Calmbirth class, you’ll be better prepared for the childbirth experience.
You’ll Have a Positive Birth Experience
When you feel informed and prepared for childbirth, it gives you a sense of confidence and control over the situation. This can help reduce your fear and anxiety about the birthing process. As a result, you’re more likely to have a positive birth experience overall. Childbirth is a life-changing event, so it’s important to do everything you can to prepare for it. Taking a Calmbirth class is one way to set yourself up for success during this time in your life.
What to expect from a Calmbirth Class.
You will walk away feeling empowered, and confident in your own body’s ability to birth your baby, as well as informed about all your birth choices and rights to make decisions that are best for you, your partner, and your baby on the day.
You will learn how your body works, everything there is to know about the physical and hormonal stages of pregnancy, labour and birth, how to support the beautiful physiology of your body in labour (& how your partner can to!) through mindset and practical tools. You will feel CONFIDENT in working with labour (because once you understand it, there’s less fear and more trust!).
You will understand the different possibilities that your labour and birth path may take (and how to work with them). You will learn how to advocate and communicate with care providers.
You will learn how to have the best birth experience and work together as a team to achieve it!
You will also learn simple yet effective Calmbirth breathing techniques, acupressure points for pregnancy, labour and birth and active birth positions that will help you in labour, as well as give your birth partner all the tools and comfort measures that you will need to help calm and support you on the day.
In addition, the course will cover topics like medical interventions and induction, so that you can make informed decisions about your care should these things become necessary.
Most importantly, taking a Calmbirth course will give you the opportunity to bond with your partner and build a support network of other expectant couples who are on a similar journey.
Is Calmbirth Right for Me?
Calmbirth is suitable for all women and couples regardless of how they plan to give birth; whether that’s at home, in hospital, in a birth centre or via caesarean section. The techniques taught in Calmbirth can be used no matter what type of birth you have. The best time to book a Calmbirth Course is between 24-34weeks pregnant, however anytime is a good time. It is never too late or too early to attend a Calmbirth course, attending earlier allows for lots of time to prepare and practice the breathing and relaxations techniques you will learn (Practice makes Permanent) or attending later in your pregnancy allows the content to be fresh in your mind.
So, whether you are an over-preparer or a last-minute person, the Calmbirth course as your birthing class option will be right for you. No two births are alike, but by taking a Calmbirth education course you can arm yourself with the knowledge and tools you need to feel confident about giving birth – no matter how your little one decides to enter the world!
Cheers Jess