How individual birth preparation can help you:
Childbirth preparation is an important part of anyone’s preparation for birth. Most woman and couples attend classes at the hosp0ital but these days more and more couples are looking for independent childbirth educators either in an independent class or workshop or individually. This could be because you would like the full attention from the educator or because you have specific issues you would like to explore in the privacy of your own home, or it could be to fit birth education into a busy schedule. Many women these days read and research a lot on their own and a childbirth educator can help you tie it all together and make sense of it, so you feel confident and ready to embrace your birth experience.
- focus on specific issues or worries
- ask as many questions you like
- have an educator who is not attached to any institution but is there just for you
- refresh your memory if you have had children before
- if you are near your due date and need to know more
Birth Plan session
Sometimes writing a birth plan can be very daunting. What should you write? What should you include and what does all those different interventions mean? Can I be sure not to have this intervention if I write I don’t want it? Writing a birth plan can have many pit falls but also have many benefits. We will go through the most common issues and talk about how to write a birth plan that can benefit your relationship with your caregivers.
90 min sessions – $90
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Getting ready for birth
This session is for helping women and couples with specific issues that just wont go away. It might be a certain fear or worry about something or issues around a previous birth. It might just be making sense of all that information you have gathered. It could also be that you didn’t make it to the available classes or would like to learn in the privacy of your own home or that you have birthed before and don’t feel like you need a long class, but would still like a refresher.
2 hours – $120
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How to be a supportive and helpful birth partner
This sessions help dads and other partners to work out what they might do during labour and birth that could be helpful for the birthing Mum. It could also be to work through how you actually feel about being present at birth or to get information about what it is actually like to be there.
2 hours – $120
For more information please call Pernille on 0406 412 354 or send me an email