Embracing Birth

Embracing Birth Childbirth and Parenting Education
Hypnobirthing Australia programs
Doula Services
Traditional model About Embracing Birth and me
Hi, my name is Karen Scanlen.

I'm a registerd nurse with qualifications in sexual and reproductive health and a registered midwife with extensive experience working in antenatal and postnatal settings. In recent years childbirth and parenting education has also become a passion and I have a combined total of over 30 years working with women, birthing partners and their families
Gaining qualifications in hypnobirthing,has definitely been a highlight. Hypnobirthing Australia programs are designed for the contemporary Australian woman and her birthing partner. Through the use of hypnosis and associated techniques to let go of fear and condition ourselves to release favourable hormones, women are provided with the knowledge and tools for a positive birth and experience. Hypnobirthing uses a combination of breathing, relaxation, visualization and affirmations to create an optimal enviroment for birth. Embracing Birth has provided me with the opportunity to support women and their birthing partners through a variety of consultation and course options , suitable to accommodate our busy lifestyles and needs
Regards Karen

Take a look at what is at bcp hub
08/09/2025

Take a look at what is at bcp hub

One Roof, Many Services 🌱

That’s what the BCP Hub is all about — bringing together trusted health and wellbeing services for families, all in one central place.

From pregnancy to teens, we’ve designed the Hub to grow with you, so you don’t have to go searching far and wide for the support you need.

✨ Antenatal care
✨ Paediatric workshops
✨ Speech pathology
✨ Family counselling
✨ Complimentary therapies
✨ And so much more…

Because family life is easier when the services you need are under one roof.

📍 Warners Bay

22/08/2025
21/08/2025
30/07/2025
14/07/2025
22/06/2025

If you are free tomorrow and 35 weeks or more pregnant?

You will get approx. 3 hours having a combination of massage (clothes on), acupressure, a variety of doula skills including working with a rebozo, pelvic pathways positioning / stretching and receiving labour and birth information. All past volunteers have gained so much information and enjoyed the pampering.

There are 2 sessions:morning session 9:15am for a 9:30am start till 12:00pm then another 9 women for the afternoon session 1:45pm for a 2:00pm start till 4:30pm (they cannot change these times so you must be available these times).

Please email Vicki at vicki@vickihobbs.com to book a place.

13/06/2025

Baby sleep expert and author Natalie from Sleep and Settle will discuss solving sleeping and settling issues.

01/06/2025

Dr Sara Wickham analyses the results of The Big Baby Trial, helping women, families and caregivers understand this research study.

29/05/2025
25/05/2025

The edge of becoming burns red.

At the gateway between worlds, where breath holds and time stutters, the skin flushes with ancient memory.

It is not injury, but invocation.
A gathering of blood, heat, and life at the sacred seam where a mother opens and a child begins.

The perineum, stretched to its limit, glows with a fire older than language. Not because it is broken, but because it is becoming.

Red like first light.
Red like power.
Red like the veil lifting between before and after.

And still, the body knows the way.

-Love,
Flor Cruz
Badassmotherbirther

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Newcastle, NSW
2284

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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+61407269920

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