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Childbirth Preparation Workshops

2-5pm Sunday 22 April

Venue: Oasis Sports and Leisure Centre, Norwich

Cost: £30 per couple including all equipment, handouts and refreshments.

You can also have a private childbirth preparation session with Kate in your own home. The cost is £50 and it usually takes a couple of hours.

TO BOOK: Email info@babyfit.me.uk or call Kate on 07798 690451

From around 33 weeks right up to your due date. These workshops are for you and your partner (or birth partner) but you can of course also come on your own. It is not necessary to have previously completed a BabyFit pregnancy yoga and pilates course.

What we do:

We look at what happens to our hormones during labour and use that to find ways partners can REALLY help.

We recap and share with your partners what we’ve learned on the yoga courses to help support you during labour – physically, mentally AND emotionally.

We identify potential physical, mental and emotional obstacles to a straightforward labour and birth and practise together how to overcome them.

Your partners will learn simple techniques to enable them to help reduce pain, aid the descent of the baby and make you feel safe and comfortable.

We get to know your birth body, including mapping your unique pelvic shape, to determine which birthing position might be best for you.

We practise breathing techniques to help you throughout pregnancy, birth and beyond.

We look at way of getting your baby into the most comfortable position for birth (includes turning breech, OP and transverse).

TO BOOK: Email info@babyfit.me.uk or call Kate on 07798 690451

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What people say about the Childbirth Preparation Workshop:

Kelly and Tim

A very enjoyable and informative morning which was fun and light-hearted. Tim was not looking forward to it at all, i think he had visions of us all sitting around in funny positions chanting! However he came away with a completely different view, found the workshop fun and reasuring that he wouldn’t be useless during the labour and birth. We both now really feel ready for baby to come and we are prepared for the labour we hope for but also if it doesn’t go to plan there are things we can do to help baby arrive safely.  We found the whole workshop really useful especially the stages of labour diagram (was alot clearer than in our antenatal classes) and also the possitive interactions tips, after the workshop Tim felt he would be more useful to me during labour and felt less nervous about the birth.

Sally and Roger

We both really enjoyed the workshop, full of practical and calming advice. The handouts were great – I printed them out, gave copies to my husband and put them in my birth bag. In fact, we referred to them on the day for the massage and for breathing techniques.

Jenny and Sean

Thanks, Kate, the workshop was brilliant. Really fun and very reassuring – it’s given both of us a confidence boost. A positive experience as something to do together with my husband as he hears about the yoga course and wants to be really supportive and the course gave him an insight into the preparations I’ve been making through the yoga course and has helped him to identify with his role during the birth.

Rachel and Sean

We found the workshop really helpful – my husband said he felt much clearer about what would happen and his role. We particularly enjoyed the practical advice on breathing, positions and having a go. I liked that you gave lots of info/advice rather than group work which is popular in these workshops but often not so helpful. Your relaxed and easy style really helped in making it both informative and enjoyable.

Andrea and James

I found this a very useful reminder as a 2nd time mum, and an excellent way of spending time together as a couple and dedicating some time to consider and discuss the pregnancy and what lies ahead. Especially as this time, we seem to have spent less time discussing the baby, birth etc. Outside of the classroom, life is hectic and complicated but this has given me time to actually communicate with James where we can leave life outside for a while.

Claire and Paul

We were lucky enough to have managed to squeeze in a great ‘Birth Preparation’ class with Kate the week before Eren’s arrival at a planned home birth.  Both of us felt we had a better understanding of what to expect of the different stages of labour and birth, some really handy techniques to use in different situations and after some rather intimate moments, an idea of the best position for me to give birth in, based on my pelvic size/shape! I remembered Kate saying how important it was to allow yourself to let go and not try to control the situation too much.  For me, shouting and grunting seemed to come naturally so I just let myself do it.  It was difficult letting go but it worked.

Andrea and Robert

Just wanted to say how good we both felt the course was on Sunday. Very enjoyable and not at all scary – well certainly the content and implications are scary but not the way it was presented. Judging by our discussion afterwards and Robert’s description of himself as “partially trained midwife”  he took quite  a bit of the information in and has mentioned it quite a bit at home too. I just hope with both do when push comes to shove quite literally. It was really useful for us – just what we both needed and at a good tempo and pitched in a very positive way.

Hannah and Phil

Funny, informative, direct. Just right. Think it’s so easy when you’re soaking up as much information as you can from books, magazines, programmes n the like, but it’s never the same as when you get the information in ‘real life’ terms, in context, with trusted opinion and with practical things to be able to do/ use. You really made me think about the ‘letting go’ bit and it’s very true and also the reality of the fact that anything can be undone – whatever the outcome of birth. I know it’s obvious but there’s a vulnerability in pregnancy, particularly with your first as you just don’t know what to expect and so just soak up everything your told, it’s hard to get that ‘in reality’ balance. I’m well glad I found your yoga classes :)   Thank you Kate, it was brill!