SERVICE DETAILS
OUR CLASSES FOR DURING PREGNANCY
Our classes and groups for during your pregnancy are designed to help you make informed choices about how, where, and with whom you give birth, and to help you feel confident about approaching parenthood.
Our information is balanced and unbiased, and we promise to answer your questions openly and honestly. All our facilitators are experts in their field, and include doulas, ex-midwives and those who have completed the Birth Educators' Course.
Active Birth Workshop...
So many birth partners have told us that they are worried that they won’t know what to do during labour, or how to support their partner. Our Active Birth Workshop aims to show both pregnant women and their birth companions useful and practical techniques that can help with labour and birth.
So many birth partners have told us that they are worried that they won’t know what to do during labour, or how to support their partner. Our Active Birth Workshop aims to show both pregnant women and their birth companions useful and practical ways that can help with labour and birth.
The workshop provides time to explore how the labouring woman might want to move, position herself and breathe, and how her birth partner can make that easier and more comfortable for her. Women and their birth partners are shown practical ‘tools’ for working with pain in labour including touch, movement and massage.
The facilitators draw upon well respected research and knowledge about birth and discuss a range of approaches to meet the intensity of labour, using simple equipment available to all, such as birth balls, pillows and chairs.
HOW WILL THE WORKSHOP BENEFIT ME AND MY BIRTH PARTNER?
The Active Birth Workshop is particularly valuable for women and partners planning or considering as straight forward a birth as possible. Many women are worried that they might not be able to cope with the intensity of labour and many partners are worried that they will find this very difficult. The aim of the day is to help everyone feel more positive about birth and confident in their abilities to cope with labour.
Our facilitator is a highly experienced and knowledgeable birth educator/Active Birth Teacher, having worked with women and their birth partners for many years.
WHAT CAN I EXPECT?
The workshop, which is designed for women and their birth partners, takes place over a whole day on a Saturday or Sunday. This includes a break for lunch (which is not provided).
Tea, coffee, water and biscuits will be available throughout the workshop.
Our groups are kept to a maximum of four couples, and have a relaxed and comfortable atmosphere. The day is loosely structured, but is kept flexible to ensure there is plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion.
All are welcome. Women come with male or female partners and/or mothers, sisters, friends and birth companions.
Women and their birth partners are welcome at any stage in their pregnancy but often come between 30-37 weeks of their pregnancies so they have time to think about what they have learned during the day.
Upcoming workshops:
- Sunday 12th March 23
- Sunday 9th April 23
If you are expecting a baby after April 2023 register at https://www.pregnancyandparents.org.uk/active-birth-workshop and we can share future 2023 dates with you.
Payment
We operate our Active Birth Workshops on a donation system because the PPC is a not-for-profit charity. The suggested donation is £120 per couple. However, all our classes have concessionary rates and this is the same for the donation system. Please contact us about this if you need to know more. We also welcome women with two birth partners and the suggested donation for three people is £140.
Book Now!
Please see https://www.pregnancyandparents.org.uk/active-birth-workshop.
