Calm Birth
There are two types of Calm Birth methods.
One is the Australian version spelled “CalmBirth” developed by midwife, Peter Jackson while the other is the American “Calm Birth” version, created by Robert Bruce Newman who worked with Tibetan meditation teachers and doctors for more than 20 years.
Let’s look at the Aussie version first – CalmBirth based on the work of Dr. Grantly Dick-Reid, the pioneer of natural childbirth, who authored the book, Childbirth Without Fear.
Jackson has over 30 years experience in General, Midwifery and Psychiatric disciplines of Nursing in Sydney and NSW regional hospitals. Peter is a member of the Australian College of Midwives, NSW Nurses Association the NSW Midwives Association and trained with the Brice-Wright School of Subconscious Mind Therapy.
CalmBirth is based on the belief that woman can experience birth through the natural flow and rhythm of their labouring body.
To release birthing over to their mind and to trust their body to function as it was intended to, thereby alleviating unnecessary discomfort.
By learning about the physiology of the birth process and the fight-or-flight response, which usually accompanies labour, the couple realises how that “fear-tension-pain syndrome” develops.
They are then taught how to alter and improve that response through special relaxation techniques, through re-interpretation of pain and through fear-release techniques.
In this way a woman is free to connect with and work with her body as she experiences labour and birth.
The labouring mother is alert but deeply relaxed.
It is this ability to deeply relax that enables the pelvic muscles to open and allow the baby to birth easily.
CalmBirth weekend workshops are currently available in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
For more info on CalmBirth visit www.CalmBirth.com.au
The American Calm Birth course was created in the 1990′s by Robert Bruce Newman who worked with Tibetan meditation teachers and doctors for more than 20 years.
The Calm Birth program is based in mind/body medicine and meditation science.
It is modeled on the medicine-meditation program of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in pain management and immune enhancement.
Calm Birth is explained well in this video …
For more info and to find a practitioner visit their website: www.CalmBirth.org
