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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 defin

itely 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

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

24/05/2025

In the largest study of its kind, researchers tested the vitamin D status of more than 70,000 people as babies.

20/03/2025

From 3 February 2025, pregnant women will be offered a free Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine to protect their newborn babies.

RSV can cause serious illness in newborns. It is recommended that pregnant women receive the vaccine at 28 weeks in pregnancy with the whooping cough (pertussis) vaccine, but it can be given anytime between 28 and 36 weeks.

Vaccines given in pregnancy will help your baby get off to a healthy start in life.

To learn more, speak to your GP, pharmacist or midwife or visit health.nsw.gov.au/rsv

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Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00
Saturday 09:00 - 17:00
Sunday 09:00 - 17:00

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+61407269920

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