Prepared for Birthing Class

This Prepared for Birth class will leave you, together with your support partner, feeling calm, excited and prepared for birth.

Learn how to:

• Make a mindset shift in regards to birth and overcome fear or anxiety surrounding birth.

• Learn about the hormones of birth, and how to make more of the ones we need and less of the ones we don’t want.

• Gain a solid understanding of the stages of labour, including placenta and cord management.

• Learn tools to manage labour intensity.

• Understand the role of your support partner and your birthing team, and the tools that they can use to best support you and your individual birth.

• Develop birth preferences to lay out your wants and needs, and strategies for how you and your support partner can protect those preferences.

• Explore the rights that you have as a childbearing woman.

• Learn about common interventions and your pain management options.

• Practice active birth skills.

• Learn about optimal baby positioning.

• Understand what to expect during your immediate postpartum period.

Feel prepared to calmly meet whatever path birth may take. This class is fun, interactive and delivered in a relaxed atmosphere. Birth support partners are encouraged to attend. Course cost includes:

• Take home manual.

• Morning and afternoon tea.

• All equipment provided.

• Ongoing support leading up to your birth.

• A take home goody bag.

About your teacher:

Amy is a qualified hypnobirthing childbirth educator, an experienced perinatal yoga teacher and a mum of three. Her joy lies in helping parents to make educated decisions that serve them and their babies. It’s not about having a textbook perfect pregnancy and birth, it's about working with where you are at and making decisions that are right for YOU.