Calm Birth® is a recognised meditation & breathing program for pregnancy, birth, and beyond based on 3 main evidence-based meditation practices. ​

 

A pregnant woman’s meditation practice always has dual benefits. The woman communicates psychologically and energetically, influencing the child to produce beneficial neurohormones and neurotransmitters. She also communicates hormonal benefits through her bloodstream to her child. The body will not work well if it is constantly overexerted and overstressed. Meditation is an opportunity to replenish the body’s stores, regain strength, rest and heal.

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Benefits include:​

• Enhanced immune and hormone systems

• Stress reduction and the ability to cope with life’s challenges

• Improved rest and sleep

• Neuromuscular release and nervous system healing

• Engaging life force at the cellular level, to increase vitality in preparation for childbirth.

• Deeper bond with your partner, your baby, and yourself

• Self-empowering skills that carry through every breath of life.

 

Refined through 20 years of development and application, Calm Birth is a unique birth preparation program introducing a new potential in childbirth through mind-body medicine. No matter what kind of birth, birthing families are empowered to retain present moment awareness in the face of challenges enabling a deeper connection to the body and its functions as well as to the new life entering our world, making it possible for women to access their inherent potential for an extraordinary experience in giving birth and for birth partners to participate in the experience.

 

Calm Birth offers a chance to regain a sense of the sacred in childbirth, whether or not medical interventions are used. Calm Birth is highly encouraged in case of medical births. The immune system empowerment is ideal for the potential side effects of anesthesia, and speeds healing from invasive procedures. Cesareans, whether planned or not, also provide an important opportunity to deeply connect with the baby through the breath, supporting baby through the birth with love and nourishment.

 

Calm Birth is founded by Dr Robert Bruce Newman and based on the clinical and research programs in the medical uses of meditation of the Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (UMMC).

 

How is Calm Birth different from other childbirth methodologies?

Calm Birth is unique from other childbirth methodologies in its application of ancient and modern meditation science to the pregnant and birthing body. No other methodologies teach complete breathing, channeling vital energy from the air into the body of parents and child. While most childbirth methodologies are focused on natural birth, Calm Birth applies to all types of childbirth. Additionally, while other childbirth methodologies end with birth, Calm Birth offers tools to empower parenthood and life itself.

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When to start?

It is never too late or too early to start the practices—from preconception to active labor! Starting early in pregnancy increases the benefits for the entire family, but benefits will still be received no matter when you start.

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Endorsements:

“Calm Birth is a sublime gift to us all. The positive impact of it on society cannot be overestimated.”

Christiane Northrup, MD

 

“Calm Birth gives woman and birth professionals practical means to improve the quality of childbirth. Like the venerable education programs inspired by Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, Dr. Fernand Lamaze, and Dr. Robert Bradley, Calm Birth seeks to empower women for childbirth and offers ideas and practical methods for them to succeed. Like the previous programs, Calm Birth recognizes the central challenge posed by fear and sensations, though its solution is different, and it recognizes the importance of breathing, teaching a form of blended breathing into both the energy body and the physical body, reflecting a new vision of childbirth anatomy and potential.

David Chamberlain, Ph.D. author of Windows to the Womb and The Mind of Your Newborn Baby;  former president of Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health ("APPAH")

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“In teaching Calm Birth meditation to pregnant women, I noticed that they were able to renew their inner strength and handle stress throughout pregnancy, labor, birth, and early parenting. No matter what medical interventions or stresses may have occurred for the baby they appeared to be more calm and less stressed as well.”

Sandra Bardsley, RN, LCCE, FACCE, CM, President, APPAH author, Creating a Joyful Birth Experience

 

“…based on meditation and the best principles of established psychosomatic medicine… Calm Birth compassionately guides mothers-to-be and new mothers through carefully structured relaxation and meditation practices…An empowering alternative to the medicalization of birth, the techniques liberate women to channel their innate wisdom into welcoming their newborn child in a truly life affirming way.”

Thomas R. Verny, MD, DPsych, DHL, FRCPC, founder, the APPAH author, The Secret Life of the Unborn Child and Tomorrow’s Baby

 

"Calm Birth is the childbirth method that society and I have waited for.  It's been a long time coming, a very long time. I am a midwife and an educator, with a steady devotion to childbirth. I urge everyone to buy  Robert Newman's inspired book. The book does what is so deeply
needed. It heals the Earth by healing birth." Jeannine Parvati Baker author of Prenatal Yoga and Natural Childbirth  and Conscious Conception

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Testamonials:

 

I feel prepared with methods to do a calm labour and enjoy the exciting experience, feeling aware and present at any moment with my baby throughout the entire process. I really enjoyed it! I'll use the learnings beyond my pregnancy/delivery/early parent life!

Mom-to-be I.M

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Calm Birth helped me to prepare for labor in a calm and positive way. I feel more confident about my abilities as a woman and as a future mother.Marise has a wonderful, calm energy which helps to bring trust in myself and make the class very enjoyable.

Mom-to-be C.L

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