Personal Antenatal Course

Booking a personal antenatal course means a course just for you. Even better is it takes place in the comfort of your own home.

This course will include key content relevant to your pregnancy and any past birth experiences.
We will adapt and tailor the sessions to cover topics that you are most interested in.

Having a personal antenatal course also allows you to schedule sessions at a time that suits you, either in person or via an online platform. Our personal antenatal courses have a basic set up of three 2-hour sessions. 6 hours 1:1 time with our antenatal practitioners.

We cover a wide range of topics in each personal antenatal course to ensure you fell confident and prepared for birth. Here is a selection of topics that previous clients have chosen to include on their personal antenatal course:

• Stages and processes of labour
  • Understanding the processes of labour and how you can support them physically and mentally can reduce anxiety around birth, and in particular, help birth partners understand what is happening at each stage.
• Comfort and pain relief through labour and birth
  • This topic covers a range of options for each stage of labour, including some lovely massage techniques that can be practices in pregnancy.
• Interventions in labour and birth
  • This includes information on induction, caesarean and instrumental birth. In N0rthern Ireland we have up to 1 in 2 pregnancies ending in induction, 27-32% of births via caesarean and up to 17% of vaginal births using either forceps or vacuum.
• Newborn care
  • Including information on sleep, bathing, changing and any specific topics of interest.
• Mental health and wellbeing in pregnancy and the postnatal period.

This is your antenatal course! You can request topics and information that you want to know more about. If you feel that you need more after the initial sessions, chat you to your antenatal practitioner and we can arrange to add some sessions at a discounted price.