Relaxed Birth, Bump & Beyond Course

Congratulations on your pregnancy!

Our Relaxed Birth, Bump & Beyond course combines all your antenatal and postnatal needs with a full hypnobirthing course.

This fully integrated course was co-created with Louise from The Relaxed Mama Club and will help prepare you for your birth in a relaxed and calm way as well as learn how to care for yourself and your newborn in those early days, weeks and months that follow.

It contains a series of video workshops and audio guides from leading, trusted birth, antenatal and postnatal support specialists and Midwives who give not only their professional expertise, but practical tools and information to make sure your journey to meeting and caring for your baby is as positive as it can be.

As well as covering all of the basics we also look at topics that are not generally included in other parenting courses.

What’s in the course?

• Monthly live Q&As on Zoom with our midwife, Anneke so you can ask any questions you may have
• Make friends with other local parents-to-be
• 17 hours of comprehensive online content from;
• 23 Midwives, Antenatal and Postnatal experts
• 76 video workshops and audio guides
• Supporting documents including a comprehensive step by step guide to the first six months, hospital bag check lists and exclusive discounts.

The course is broken down into two sections; antenatal and postnatal and in each chapter we will teach you about:

Hypnobirthing

• The power of words
• The power of the mind
• Downloadable positive affirmations
• Learning from mammals
• The Cervix
• The Uterus
• The nervous system
• The fear tension pain cycle
• The birth partner
• Reframing birth
• Preparing your body
• Using your BRAIN
• Due dates
• induction of labour
• Downloadable relaxations: Happy Place guided relaxation and Protective Shield guided relaxation
• Up breathing and visualisations
• Breathing your baby out
• The Golden Hour

Pregnancy, labour & birth

• Perineal massage
• Induction choices
• Birth place choices
• Home birth
• Pain relief options
• Positions in labour
• Stages of labour
• What to expect in an abdominal birth
• What is a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) & ERCS (Elective Repeat Cesarean Section) and what do you need to know
• What happens on a postnatal ward
• Understanding a difficult birth experience
• Antenatal colostrum harvesting
• Pregnancy Yoga

Caring for your baby

• How to feed your baby ( breastfeeding, bottle feeding and expressing)
• How to get your baby to sleep and safely
• The early days, weeks and months at home
• Creating and managing a routine
• Introducing your newborn to their sibling
• Introducing your dog to your baby (with Channel 4's dog trainer, Oli Juste)
• Baby's health and wellbeing
• Recognising Tongue-tie
• Spotting the signs of teething and how to soothe your baby
• The benefits of baby massage and baby yoga and how to practice
• Babywearing techniques
• Baby proofing your home

Caring for you

• Recovering from a physiological or abdominal birth
• Abdominal birth scar massage
• An introduction to diastasis recti and how to do a self assessment
• Pelvic floor training
• Postnatal fitness
• Postnatal yoga
• Post birth nutrition and wellbeing
• Mindful parent practices
• Mental health for new parents
• Navigating relationship changes with your partner
• Returning to work.

In addition there is also a downloadable Helping Hand Guide written by our Midwife, Anneke, which covers everything you need to know in bite size chapters and checklists and four supporting pdfs with links to additional resources.

NHS Trusts

We want to support as any families as possible so you are an NHS Trust looking to offer our Relaxed Birth, Bump & Beyond course as part of your hospital's antenatal and postnatal education please do get in touch at [email protected]