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Step into birth and parenting feeling informed, empowered and excited!  There’s so much to learn and prepare, so how do you avoid overwhelm?

• You want to create a birth plan that reflects your values and intentions, but where do you begin?
• Wondering about all the ways your birth partner can support you in labour, such as acupressure, breathwork, positioning and massage?  
• Breastfeeding is important to you, so how do you get off to a great start?
• Still processing your unexpected caesarean birth and eager to plan your VBAC?

First, take a long, slow breath…and then let’s work together to enhance your knowledge, engage your body and enter parenthood feeling positive and prepared!

1. Informed Birth Planning:  Using your BRAIN – 3 hours 

• How to improve your chances for a natural birth
• Creating a birth plan that reflects your values & intentions
• Navigating the maternity system for more personalised care
• Hormones of undisturbed birth & creating the optimal environment for labour
• Common birth interventions & preventing the ‘Cascade of Interventions’
• Non-medical & medical pain relief options
• Your rights of Informed Consent & Refusal
• Advocating for yourself & your baby
• What happens when things don’t go according to your birth plan
• Working through fears with mindfulness and visualisation

Includes:

• A copy of Creating Your Birth Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide for Making and Sharing Your Informed Choices for Birth e-workbook plus sample birth plans
• A display book of evidence-based information and personal practices
• Availability by phone, text or email for follow-up support

Further details:

• Investment – $325 per couple/birth team in the comfort of your home*
• Investment – $275 per couple/birth team at my studio in Northcote

*If your home is more than a 30-minute drive from Northcote, a nominal travel fee applies. 

2. Active Birth: Moving and Grooving – 3 hours

• How to improve your chances for a natural birth
• How your body and baby move through labour
• Coping with birth sensations & challenges
• Active birth positions
• Movements for optimal foetal positioning
• Rebozo techniques
• Non-medical comfort measures
• Dancing for BirthTM techniques
• Birth partner support & massage instruction
• Acupressure techniques
• Relaxation & breathwork

Includes:

• A copy of ‘Preparing for Birth’, a 77-page, full-colour childbirth education book
• A display book of evidence-based information and personal practices
• Availability by phone, text or email for follow-up support

Further details:

• Investment – $325 per couple/birth team in the comfort of your home*
• Investment – $275 per couple/birth team at my studio in Northcote

*If your home is more than a 30-minute drive from Northcote, a nominal travel fee applies. 

3. The Postnatal Period: Getting Off to the Best Start – 3 hours 

• Guarding the golden hour after birth
• Breastfeeding 101
• Understanding & interacting with your newborn
• Demystifying newborn sleep
• Babywearing basics
• Postnatal wellness and nutrition for mum
• Avoiding isolation & meeting new parents

Includes:

• A copy of “Your Postpartum Plan: Going Beyond the Birth” e-workbook
• A display book of evidence-based information and personal practices
• Availability by phone, text or email for follow-up support

Further details:

• Investment – $325 per couple/birth team in the comfort of your home*
• Investment – $275 per couple/birth team at my studio in Northcote

*If your home is more than a 30-minute drive from Northcote, a nominal travel fee applies.