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The following are some testimonials from couples who have used Lotus calmbirth techniques.

Maddy's birth

I have been out and about and telling everyone and anyone that will listen to me all about calmbirth, and how fantastic it is! After discovering that calmbirth existed, and reading as much information as I could find about it, I mentioned it to my Midwife, and asked her if she knew any women that had used it. She told me that not only had she heard of it, one of the Birth Centre Midwives was a qualified teacher, and so we met Lainey.

We had wanted a fairly "normal" natural pregnancy, labour and birth, hence our decision to go with a Birthing Centre, not a delivery ward. Our idea's of labour and birth were fairly open, and we both wanted a positive experience, with as little medical intervention as possible. Lainey met us and we immediately felt at ease with her, and extremely comfortable learning and relaxing. We felt that we could not have been better prepared for our impending labour and birth.

My waters broke at 2.30pm on Thurs 6th April 2006, and we were immediately excited about the impending arrival of our little one. Unfortunately, I did not go into labour for some time, but with a few simple suggestions from Lainey, we were well on our way. The first sign I got that I was in labour was at 2.30am on Friday 7th April, and all I felt was tightening in my belly. We moved out to the lounge room couch, and I started my relaxation breathing. Ash then commenced with his positive affirmations, and was timing the waves. At 7.30am, we called the Birth Centre, and made our way to the hospital.

We arrived at 8.30am, and I was still in full control, and in no pain at all, just tightening with each wave. With no medical intervention, no drugs, and no internal examinations, our beautiful baby girl, Maddison was born in a calm environment, bright eyed and wide awake, and not crying, at 10.32am on Fri 7th April, after only an 8 hour labour and delivery.

Maddison is a calm child who rarely cries for long periods of time and I continue to use my relaxation breathing to quickly go to sleep in between night feeds.

I constantly rave about the benefits of calmbirth to anyone that will listen to me, and am already looking forward to having another child, using the calmbirth techniques. A huge thank you to Lainey, who made our labour and birth such a positive and fantastic experience.

It was truelly amazing, and we couldn't have done it without her.

She is a star!!!

Love Kellie, Ashley and Maddison Bird.

At 32 weeks pregnant, and being a midwife, thus knowing way too much, it dawned on me what I may be heading for with the birth of my baby. Suddenly I was full of fear! Thanks to you, our guardian angel who guided us from here on with the concept of calmbirth, that fear, was transformed to that of excitement, a feeling of being able to let go, and most importantly allowed me to have a very special bond with my baby before he was even born.

I did have an extremely long labour and ended up having a caesar as Darby was in a posterior position, however, by using my calmbirth techniques throughout my labour, I have very fond memories of it. I never felt afraid and I always felt a calmness, and therefore felt empowered to help make decisions throughout my labour, and the birth of our baby. This is all thanks to calmbirth.

We thankyou Lainey from the bottom of our hearts and look forward to using the calmbirth programme with our next baby.

Love Jo, Craig and Darby Blinco

Hi there,

It's Amanda from your calmbirth course. Just letting you know that Steve and I had a beautiful little girl on July 14th, Lily Rose (7 pound 15). We were lucky enough to only have a 4 and a half hour labour!!!!

Thank you for everything that you taught us, if it wasn't for the breathing techniques I don't know what I would have done. Even Steve thought that the 'hippy crap' was worth it and he was glad that he had some good techniques to help me through it.

Thanks again

love Amanda and Steven x

A calming approach to preparing mind, body and spirit for the birth of our little miracle. Thanks to calmbirth we felt at ease with the labour ahead and welcomed our beautiful Lily Mae into the world in 3 hours. Lainey's approach to calmbirth is holistic, her touch was both professional and loving throughout our time together antenatally and as a family.

Michele

At our first calmbirth/hypnobirthing class I went into it a bit sceptical. I never believed that hypnotherapy worked, let alone it could help with making the birth of a child easier. During one of our initial sessions I was totally amazed at the power of the subconscious mind. With Lainey's guidance I experienced something that I never felt was possible, and gained self belief that calmbirth could definitely make a difference.

Matt

Thanks to your beautiful caring nature and love surrounding us throughout pregnancy and birth! Our birth wouldn't have been the same without you.

Matt, Shell and Lily Mae Pickford

What a fabulous way of thought and teaching that promotes confidence and rightly restores the responsibility and control for a woman to contribute to what can be one of the greatest experiences and joys in a woman's life. Calmbirthing...The word really needs to get out there.

Lainey, I can't thank you enough for facilitating the way to tap into inner strength and resources that gave a profound inner healing and a confidence to face "birthing" with total confidence. Even when things didn't go exactly as planned, the skills I was able to employ kept me calm with all fears allayed. Our beautiful daughter Crystelle, a calm, healthy and happy baby is testimonial to the calm pregnancy and birth I was able to have. Calmbirth was a major contributing factor for my attitude.

I was greatly blessed and fortunate enough to have had the exceptional midwifery experience and firsthand experience of this excellent calm birthing teacher Lainey, to help my husband deliver our beautiful cherub into this world.

A truly remarkable, professional teacher and an inspirational model for all midwives to follow suit.

Thanks Lainey, I hope all women are as lucky as we were to have you in our lives at a very important time on our journey.

Caterina, Brett and Crystelle

Just a quick note to say a big thank you. Calmbirth was a very positive experience for us. It allowed discussion as a couple on the ideas we had for the birth and made the birth of Tobias a joint effort. We had the same focus together during the birth. As a partner it made Mat feel included rather than helpless.

The techniques learnt during the course not only helped with Tobias's birth, it also gave help with sleeping during the pregnancy and made us more relaxed within other aspects of life. Calmbirth also gave us the insight that birth process is a normal life event.

Anita, Mat and Tobias