My husband and I went into Melanie's Calmbirth classes on the recommendation of a friend who had great success in her birth experience. We had quite a number of concerns about the upcoming birth of our son; including fear of pain, tearing and being 'out of control' for me, and for my hubby - not knowing what he could do for me during labour & birth.

Melanie took us, and another 2 couples over 2 Sundays and transformed the way we thought about birth. It gave us so much knowledge, confidence and trust in the birthing process. In fact, we were so confident that we changed from a private obstetrician to a Family Birth Centre at 27 weeks!!!

To our shock our son Alexander decided to arrive at 31 weeks! It was a pretty crazy time with my waters breaking at home and the doctors unable to stop my labour... However, we took the time to breathe and remember our Calmbirthing practices and had the most empowering and beautiful drug-free labour and delivery - despite there being 12 people watching on in a brightly lit room, and Alex being taken straight away from me.

I experienced a wonderful labour, with much less pain than I had expected... and no stitches!!! My husband felt as though he had a very important role in the birth and kept me focused and reminded me to relax and breathe. He recalls times where people came into the room to ask me a question and he would ask them to wait while a contraction finished, to which the doctor or nurse would reply "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought she was sleeping!"

Alexander is a wonderful, calm little baby who came home from hospital after 6.5 weeks, fully breast-fed and sleeping through the night from 12 weeks of age! He's now 8 months old and catching up to his peers quickly. He is the light of our loves and we look forward to adding a brother or sister to our family in the future - hopefully carrying this one to full-term! Having this education has helped me enormously well beyond the delivery suite; I am a very calm mother (for an ex-control freak that is pretty amazing!).

I highly recommend this course to ALL prospective parents. Melanie is an amazing support person, counselor and friend. I have recommended her to my sister and close friend, who both have had amazing birthing experiences as well.

This class is absolutely amazing, and I firmly believe that antenatal classes at the hospitals should be replaced with calmbirth classes.
I was first told about hypnobirthing by an old friend, and due to a class of dates i couldn't attend, and was then recommended to calmbirth. If ever I was to say a investment worthwhile this would be it.
Without the knowledge and education you receive from calmbirth, having your first baby is scary as hell, and most women will alwasy focus on the negative things and relay their negative experiences. Calmbirth, and Melanie teach you the facts and teach you how childbirth is a natural process which your body is designed to go through.. who'd of thought?!
My son is a testament to this class, calmbirth = calm baby, I truly don't know what I would of done without it! Thank you Melanie, I am forever in your debt!!

I attended CALM birth classes with Melanie Cain and I can tell you she is really amazing. I was quite scared at the prospect of birthing but I really really wanted to have a natural birth. Melanie worked with me to dissipate my fears, trust my body and taught me some great 'CALM birth' techniques to use during the labour. It was invaluable. When I started labouring I thought "If this is just the start, how am I going to keep going?!" and then my husband reminded me of the techinques we learnt and put on the CALM Birth CDs. I calmed right down, took back control and went on to birth my daughter naturally, without drugs. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life! Highly recommend CALM Birth classes with Melanie.

I have been seeing Sharizaar O Heart, a craniosacral therapist, at TLC for several months. I also referred my mum, as she was fantastic and I was very happy with the results.
I have also spoken with Melanie, a Calmbirth educator and doula, about my plans for an upcoming homebirth. I have found her to be a very good listener, as well as supportive.
Massage is also offered at the rooms.