The Birth Preparation Course

The Birthkind Birth Preparation Course is a full antenatal course designed to help you feel calm, confident and informed about birth and beyond.

Session plans

Below are the details of what we cover in each session, as well as extra topics that are covered in your digital guides

    • Understanding how labour and birth work

    • The hormones involved in labour and birth

    • How your uterus works

    • Preparing your body and mind for labour (breathing techniques, relaxation, optimal position of baby for labour, positive affirmations)

    • The phases of labour and how to support your body through each phase

    • Pain relief options

    • Birth environment

    • Place of birth options

    • The birth of your placenta

    • Perineal care and stitches

    • Birth preferences

    • Interventions in birth

    • Induction of labour

    • C-section

    • Assisted births (eg. forceps)

    • Bonding and connecting

    • Feeding your baby

    • Vitamin K

    • Tests offered to your baby

    • Jaundice

    • Nappies

    • Your recovery

    • Your nourishment

    • Feeding continued

    • Newborn sleep

    • Support networks

    • Mental health and wellbeing/ postpartum hormones

    • Normal newborn behaviour

Extra information

  • All Birthkind classes are held at Sam & Jak’s, a restaurant in the town centre of Cirencester

  • Birthkind classes are always designed and delivered by a midwife

  • Classes run from 6pm and finish at around 8pm

  • Your digital birth guide covers everything that we discuss in class, as well as lots of extra information and tools such as birth preference templates and birth bag lists

  • Your birth partner will receive their own preparation guide including practical tips to prepare for birth, how to support you in labour and ideas for connecting with baby after birth

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