This is the complete Birth Course, for all births choices and all paths to parenthood. Focused on preparing for a physiological birth, with understanding of more medical birth should this change at anytime along the way.
You can read more about the course and support package here
The course is 6 hours of birth preparation and 1.5 hours of postnatal preparation.
After booking your course, you automatically gain access to the one-of-a-kind support package worth at least £850* which includes:
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:
- 6 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
It’s 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:
Private course option (7.5 hours total live learning time)
- £440 via Zoom
- £484 in-person
Location and Timings:
- The course can be completed in 1 x 6 hours, 2 x 3 hours, or 3 x 2 hours.
- In-person would typically be at your home (alternatively a mutually agreed location), and no more than a 30 minute travel distance from Morden, Surrey, UK. Please contact me should you live further away, as this may still be possible.
- Online via Zoom video call – accessible from anywhere in the world
- Subject to my availability
Ready to book? Please contact Rachel so that we can discuss this further, confirm your preferred dates, which can then be secured with a £150 deposit or full payment.
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 here