Testimonials
calmbirth® Testimonials.
I have been meaning to send you an email for quite a while now... 5 months in fact... to express a massive THANK YOU! ...Not only was the knowledge and techniques we learnt from an absolute god- send during my labour, but also in the months leading up to the birth.
I had a week of Pre-labour which I could not have gotten through so calmly without the help of the CD's. Even a few hours before Lucas actually arrived, I was in the bath at home listening to the CD, breathing through my contractions, with Simon on the bathroom floor beside me. I'm still absolutely in awe at how wonderful the whole calmbirth® process made our birth experience.
The actual birth of Lucas was something which both Simon and I look back on with really fond memories. I was able to give birth without any drugs...Lucas entered the world in a totally alert state, into a room filled with lovely soothing music and dim lighting. Simon was absolutely amazing and remained so calm. It was an absolutely wonderful experience,Tarnia
From a fathers perspective: What an amazing experience for a father. To see my wife have such courage and work through this beautiful process drug free is a credit to calmbirth®.
Belle really wanted to have a baby totally naturally, but being overdue looked to take that dream away. Then when we had to go to hospital and have an inducement Belle was not happy about the process ahead. Apprehension gave way to determination and her story says it all! I had the joy of supporting her and making sure she new I believed in her 100%. The midwife was fantastic and had obviously read Belinda’s birth plan, making sure the thought of drugs were a distant idea rather than a reality and assured her the baby would come soon. Julian.
We had a normal birth after caesarean
We had a natural birth after caesarean! We are very proud and happy with ourselves that we went through with the VBAC (vaginal birth after caesar), especially after numerous doctors at the hospital had tried to convince us to just go the more conservative, caesarian path again. So, I just wanted to say again - thank you so much for the course and your help and guidance in bringing our little boy into the world naturally, which has helped in setting him on the right path for solid feeding and sleeping etc - a much calmer baby this time around! Thank you. Cheers, Abi (and Mark, Zoe and Ben)
How lovely it was to learn relaxation.......It was lovely to see you the other day and very nice to reflect on the whole birth thing again….I should have emphasized more how very helpful I found the techniques prior to the birth for relaxing and gaining a few extra hours sleep on most mornings and how I was thus instinctively using the technique for the first 21 hrs of the pre-labour process hence not really realising that I was in the midst of the real thing!
Asking the mums the other day, I learned that out of seven of us having coffee I was the only one with no intervention at all. Three had C-sections, two forceps and one vacuum, so I am very grateful for your calm birth® course and really everything that went into making Arrans birth the most wonderful and amazingly quick experience. Keep doing what you’re doing! Charlie
I just wanted to let you know on the 6th March, after two days of pre labour and 5.5hrs of established labour, Grace Kennedy was born.
The breathing and visualising really helped me - especially with the 2 days of pre labour which was exhausting! I also used the breathing and visualising for majority of the established labour - but with Grace turned to the left, each contraction brought with it pain to my back, I was fine up until Transition when I had gas. Pushing took 30 minutes - and I was again visualizing the whole time…….without calmbirth®, I don't think I would have managed the labour at all...prelabour wasn't as painful, but being able to breath through it, kept me calm, especially when I was sooo tired (I usually lose it when I'm tired and sleep deprived)...needless to say it's helped with motherhood as well :) Thank you so much for a fantastic course that taught us so much! Jen
We loved the relaxation techniques
"We cannot recommend Louise’s Calmbirth® course more highly. Louise is a warm, gentle & understanding person who created a lovely environment for the completion of our course. We loved the relaxation techniques and know that they will come in handy for both of us for many years to come. The skills that we learned in the course were invaluable during our labour. Oliver felt that he could really play a part in improving my comfort levels and I had a much deeper understanding of the labour process which meant that I was much more relaxed about all aspects of the delivery. We still rave about you & the course to all our pregnant friends as we found it so unbelievably helpful in making Jemima’s birth the happy & calm delivery that it was.
I don’t know if the calm delivery that we experienced has anything to do with our little daughter’s temperament, but she is an extremely relaxed & happy baby who has slept through the night since we brought her home from hospital. I think everybody can take something away from the Calmbirth course and we haven’t stopped raving about it to all our friends! Jillian and Oliver
Calmbirth® brought us closer together
"…. calmbirth® assisted our labour and brought us closer together and closer to our daughter than we imagined possible. Our labour was an incredible experience and I would do it all over again 1000 times ..... we used all our calmbirth strategies and we had a short labour at the end of which I felt elated. The midwives told me to recommend calmbirth to all my friends as they were so impressed with how we laboured!
I enjoyed writing my birth story immensely - I cried tears of joy as i did it..! My friends were also amazed to hear it.... for some of them it has really challenged their ideas about labour being horrible/painful experience. I continue to find the relaxation and calm breathing indispensable in my new parenting role.”Love Jessica and Zac
This birth was a completely different experience..one we really enjoyed
When I found out I was pregnant with my third child, I was already anxious about the labour and birth - with my first two babies I had become incredibly tense and frightened during the labour mostly because I was unprepared for it and I was overwhelmed by fear and the pain. .. when I became pregnant 5 years later, the midwives at the hospital recommended calmbirth®. I went to the course and while I enjoyed it, I was still very doubtful that I would be able to get through a labour without pain relief. However I used the relaxation techniques every night to go to sleep ... For my labour I ended up being induced - but the whole experience was great. We had a water birth and it was a fantastic experience...Thank you so much for your beautiful teaching, we got so much out of it. It was a whole new approach for us, and the birth was a completely different experience - one we enjoyed, and we were able to work together as a team. Plus, with no drugs, the recovery time has been amazingly fast. Kate and Mike
Parenting and Birth Workshop Testimonials
I feel more knowledgeble, capable and confident
"Thank you so much for a great program. I feel so much more confident about approaching my birth. I feel a lot more knowledgeable, capable and confident about birth and being a new mum Again, thank you for being so passionate about Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting."
Lucy, Parenting and Birth Workshop
We appreciated a non-prejudice, unbiased presentation
"Thank you for an enjoyable program, gaining an insight and valuable knowledge of pregnancy and childbirth. We found your passion and enthusiasm for these topics certainly made the time enjoyable for us. We were impressed with the way you created a relaxed and informal interactive forum, which encouraged easy discussion amongst an intimate group size of only four couples. Having such a small group enabled the course to be tailored to suit the participants and gave us to opportunity ask many questions. We also appreciated your non-prejudice, unbiased presentation. We would not hesitate to recommend your course to other parents-to-be!"
Ian & Roslyn, Parenting and Birth workshop
I really appreciated your personal approach
" We were looking for a more informal antenatal course more personalized to our needs so it was excellent to be involved in such a small group. I thoroughly enjoyed it I felt like we covered a lot of information in a highly interactive fashion, and learnt more importantly where we could obtain the information when we need it.
...Thank you for being particularly helpful in my personal situation.. I really appreciated this personal approach and felt like you really cared and it is clear you are passionate about your work, love of children and mothers- to- be. I would really recommend this course to anyone wanting to learn with a smaller group, with a great teacher who can tailor to personal needs. Books and DVDs were also available to borrow which was great. The information pack we left with was most informative."
Louise, Parenting and Birth Workshop
Private Sessions Testimonials
We found it informative, positive and empowering
"Craig and I would just like to say a big thank you for yesterday's class. We both really enjoyed it. We found it very informative, positive and empowering. Just the way it should be. You were great. I now know that we can do it! We can't wait for our miracle journey to meet our little angel."
Kind regards Natalie, Craig & bubs, Private Session
What a difference it made to my birth experience
"I had a very traumatic experience with the birth of my son five years earlier. I had a number of physical and emotional issues as a result of his birth. As we approached the birth of our second child, these issues became more obvious. My husband and I decided to have a private session with Louise Luscri. Seeking professional advice from Louise was the single best decision I made in my pregnancy. I received fantastic help from Louise in relation to my previous difficult experience. In a natural progression from that work, Louise then gave me clear, simple and highly effective techniques to manage the process of our next birth. I was completely amazed at what a difference her approach made to my whole experience of my baby’s birth. I felt at all times as if I was able to participate and be in control of the birth. I am delighted to reveal that, far from being a "labour”, my daughter’s birth was a positive and liberating experience for me. With Louise’s counseling, advice and coaching, I was able to manage my labour with confidence. I am a changed woman!
Love Angela, Private Session
We couldn’t recommend you enough
"Thank you for the private session - we couldn’t recommend you enough. You are so warm and friendly, and your knowledge is logical and practical and we really appreciated your positive and enthusiastic approach to all our questions and concerns that was so helpful and comforting! Thanks also for the DVD’s you kindly left for us to borrow on – they were brilliant at pointing the way for early motherhood and to help us understand our new babies ...simple things I imagine I would have otherwise probably misjudged. Many thanks Louise"
Mel and Jameel Private session