Kim Graham Doula

Looking for a Positive Birth Experience?

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Kim Graham is a Sydney based Doula and a registered calmbirth® practitioner, she is also qualified as a childbirth & Early Parenting Educator. As a Mum with a knowledge and fascination with the wonders of childbirth – Kim is passionate about supporting women and their families throughout pregnancy, childbirth and beyond.

Doula

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As your Doula, Kim would provide continuous emotionally and physical support, throughout your pregnancy, labour and post-natal period (This service is non-medical). Kim will support and encourage you to have the birth you desire, this could be a natural birth or a birth where you choose pain relief – it is all about you.
Whatever setting you choose, that being a public or private hospital or a home birth.

Kim will also provide support for your partner and believes strongly that their role is crucial in a positive birth experience. See Dads / Partner role

Calmbirth®

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Do you have fears about the birth of your baby, hearing lots of stories, that in some cases are all about c-sections and epidurals?
Calmbirth® is a form of childbirth education, it teaches you the birth process as natural and with trust and knowledge (in normal circumstances) you can achieve the birth that you dream of.

Calmbirth® encourages you to use your inner resources with tools that you possess such as breathing visualisation and relaxation and how hormones are your helpers. This will eliminate your fear which will eliminate the fight – flight response.

Calmbirth ® is great for your partners as it gives them the knowledge of the birth process so they can support you and not try to rescue you, the knowledge gives them the confidence to say yes you can do this . What a wonderful start for you and your family

About Kim

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Doula and calmbirth® Practitioner
As a Doula and Calmbirth practitioner I am passionate about supporting women and their partners throughout pregnancy, childbirth and beyond.
My dream was always to be a Mum and luckily for my husband and me we have had the gift of having 3 wonderful children. My children are now teenagers and have started their own journey of independence.

I realised that with having 3 completely different birth experiences of my own and also hearing all my friends’ stories that each couples’ birth experience was so different. With research I realised that In normal circumstances couples that have been educated with knowledge of the birth process were trusting and seemed to have a more natural and rewarding outcome. With this information I went on to become a Doula and calmbirth® Practitioner

I qualified as a Doula in 2007 from Birth Central now called Australian Doula College in Erskinville , which was just amazing. After supporting many births and with my own birth experience I realised that if you have knowledge of the birth process and learn how to breathe you will trust in your natural ability to birth your baby – this led me to become a calmbirth® practitioner training with the amazing Peter Jackson. I qualified as a calmbirth® practitioner in Feb 2008. I also completed my Childbirth & Early Parenting Education Studies in 2011.

I am so happy and feel privileged to share my knowledge with couples so that they can birth their babies with confidence and trust in themselves.

I live and work on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and I am available for calmbirth® courses and Doula support throughout Sydney.

Please Contact me for further information.


Doula Services

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As your Doula – Kim’s services includes:

• Inital meeting – Obligation free meeting (48hrs to decide on booking the support)
• 1st meeting - Involves getting to know one another, going over your birth preferences, talking over any fears & expectations, hospital protocols, any questions, complimentary hand or foot massage;
• 2nd meeting – involves talking about the birth process, natural and medicated, also the difference between the two. Dad/partners role, also going over your birth wish list. We cover how to help get labour started if you go past your due date. Plus much more;
  When I am on call I am available 24hrs a day via mobile or e-mail, I will be on call for you 2 weeks (38 Wks) before and 2 weeks after your due date (42 Wks) ;
• I will support you at any stage you feel you need me once your labour has started, I usually stay with you for about 2 hours once baby is born or when you are all settled;
  Followed by 2 visits post-natal

Calmbirth Classes

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In the calmbirth® classes:

• You will learn Breathing Techniques, Relaxation, Visualisation.
• Methods to eliviate tension, with tension you will feel pain, which brings on the fight or flight response.
• The importance of understanding the power of the mind
• Stages of labour
• Positions
• Your partners role is very important, hearing key words and gentle touch from your partner will help guide you into relaxation.
• calmbirth® classes can be held privately at your own home or in group class.
• Cost is of classes are $550.00 (to be paid prior to class) included in this cost is your calmbirth® Cd and Booklet