"Positive Birth Program"

Whilst I was pregnant, my partner and I attended the Positive Birth Program at Bunbury Regional Hospital with an amazing midwife named Kasey. Kasey taught us a number of tools and techniques to birth calmly in order to make our baby's birth a positive experience for both myself and them. 

Throughout our pregnancy journey, we came to realise how society (and, we believe, even some medical staff) depict birth to be both dramatic and painful. We learnt how medicalised birth had become and although I do believe that there is a place for intervention, I feel there is definitely a pressure to intervene when it is not always necessary, a pressure that we even experienced ourselves.

I'd like to thank Kasey for literally changing our lives. The Positive Birth Program helped us to have such a positive experience antenatally, during labour and postnatally. We are so thankful that despite being classed as 'high risk' and delivering at another hospital, the birth of our baby was such a positive and empowering experience.