Here you’ll find in-person group course dates for the Full Birth Support Package (the course + online benefits hub)
Read about the course packages and benefits here.
Up-coming In-Person Course Dates:
Wandsworth:
Saturdays 22nd and 29th April, 9am-1pm – BOOK HERE
Saturdays 17th and 24th June, 9am-1pm – BOOK HERE
Morden:
Saturdays 20th and 27th May, 9am-1pm – BOOK HERE
Saturdays 15th and 22nd July, 9am-1pm – BOOK HERE
Wimbledon Village:
Wednesdays 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th May, 7:15-9:15pm – BOOK HERE
Wednesdays 28th June, 5th, 12th, 19th July – BOOK HERE
£384 per birth team, payment plans available.
Course Locations:
Morden: St George’s Church Hall in Morden – view on Google Maps. The course runs with a minimum of 3 couples and a max 8 couples. Free parking available.
Wandsworth: Training Mode, 17c Hardwicks Square, London SW18 4AG – view on Google Maps. The course runs with a minimum of 3 couples and a max 5 couples.
Wimbleon Village: Allington Therapy, Suite 2, 2 Allington Close, Wimbledon Village, SW19 5AP view on Google Maps. This course runs with a minimum of 2 couples and a max of 4 couples.
More Details:
This is the Physiological Birth Preparation Course. (Abdominal Birth Courses are also available)
During pregnancy:
- Weekly pregnancy yoga (live on Zoom & recorded for your convenience)
- Monthly relaxation sessions (live on Zoom)
- Online community to meet others on a similar path (moderated & closed) hosted on Circle
- WhatsApp support with me, your teacher, right up until your baby is born
- Ask the Midwife online group
The Course:
- 8 hours live birth preparation teaching
- 1.5 hours live via Zoom postnatal preparation
During postnatal recovery:
- 1 hour postnatal doula session (on Zoom)
- Educational videos on baby care including breast and bottle feeding
- Weekly parent & baby yoga (live on Zoom & recorded for your convenience)
- Online community to meet others on a similar path (moderated & closed) hosted on Circle
We recommend signing up to the package from 12 weeks of pregnancy, so you can gain the full benefit of mind and body support from early on.
The package costs are:
Group course option (9.5 hours total live learning time + support package)
What you will learn:
- The Mindful Birth Group® syllabus, incorporating effective Hypnobirthing theory and techniques with Mindfulness tools
- Understand the mind body connection, and how the mind can physically impact the body and birth
- What happens in the body, and the transformation it goes through to birth your baby
- What different kinds of birth look like – whether it be a spontaneous labour at home or a birth centre, induced labour at hospital, or an unplanned abdominal (caesarean) birth
- Three simple but effective breathing techniques to help you to relax during pregnancy and birth (and beyond!)
- Visualisation techniques to help you to relax in pregnancy and every birthing scenario
- Learn about the pelvis, baby positions, and optimal positions for labour and birth
- Exercises and movement you can do during pregnancy and labour to support birth, as well as prevent tearing
- Controlling the controllables – understand what is in your control and what should be allowed to progress by itself. This may include your birthing body or your medical care providers who are medically trained to support your birth
- A very gentle and highly effective massage technique which will stimulate the production of the body’s natural pain relieving hormones
- How to create a supportive environment wherever you birth your baby/babies
- How to write your birth preferences & share them with your medical care providers
- The birth partners incredibly important role and how they can support you throughout pregnancy, labour, and birth
- Postnatal recovery, how to prepare for parenthood, and the fourth trimester when your baby is her
The price is for mum/birthing person and birth partner, who are encouraged to attend! Should you have an additional birth partner who you would like to attend the course please contact Rachel so that we can discuss this further.