AT HOME COURSE

Private Mindful Natal® Course + PregnaHub®

If you’re looking for at-home antenatal classes, or perhaps your local group antenatal courses don’t fit in with your schedule, then a private course is a brilliant option for you!

The in-person course is an antenatal education, and covers all that you need to know ahead of birth, with a carefully curated mix of hypnobirthing, mindfuless, practical tools, balanced information, and is supportive of ALL birth preferences and choices.

The PregnaHub® App is your pregnancy companion and new parenthood guide. The App contains on-demand content that you can use to prepare ahead of birth, and dip back into as and when you need in parenthood. App access is included when booking a private course (or available on a monthly/one-off basis here).

After our 6 hours together in-person, sat comfy on your sofa with a cuppa, you will be clearer on what you want your birth experience to look and feel like, and how to stack the odds in your favour. You’ll also understand what challenges you might face, how things can chance, and how to navigate them with confidence and power-play tools in your locker.

Some people feel anxious or apprehensive about birth, and it’s my mission to myth-bust some of the scarier bits and help you feel more neutral about birth. If you’re already feeling more prepared and excited for birth, then you can use the course to delve even deeper into the bits that are important to you and strengthen your vision for birth.

As an experienced hypnobirthing teacher and birth doula I understand how unique your hopes and fears are around birth and parenthood. A private course provides you with the space and time, and my guidance should you want it, to talk and explore these further.

Our 6 hours  together can be taught over 1, 2, or 3 sessions. This is usually at your home if you’re in Central or South West London at dates and times to suit you (subject to my availablity). The course can also be taught online over Zoom if you’re further afield.

Investment and availability

A private course is £495 in-person at your home, or £440 online via Zoom. This includes:

  • 6 hours live learning
  • The extensive PregnaHub App
  • Whatsapp support until 2 weeks after the birth
  • Course Booklet, affirmation cards, and essential oil roller.

Payment Details:

  • £495 in-person, £440 online.
  • A non-refundable deposit of £250 is paid to secure teaching dates and access to the PregnaHub, with the balance payable 14 days before our first session together. Payment plans are available.

Booking:

  • I am available in the week daytime or evenings (did you know your employer is required to allow time off for antenatal classes?!), and occasionally weekends.
  • Once the deposit is paid, I would send my calendar for you to book our sessions together.

Please do get in touch to enquire about my availability and arrange booking a course with me. I look forward to supporting you at this special and important time.

Course Overview

Course Overview

What you will learn: 

  • The Mindful Birth Group® syllabus, incorporating effective Hypnobirthing theory and techniques with Mindfulness tools

  • Understand the mind body connection, and how the mind can physically impact the body and birth

  • What happens in the body, and the transformation it goes through to birth your baby

  • What different kinds of birth look like – whether it be a spontaneous labour at home or a birth centre, induced labour at hospital, or an unplanned abdominal (caesarean) birth

  • Three simple but effective breathing techniques to help you to relax during pregnancy and birth (and beyond!)

  • Visualisation techniques to help you to relax in pregnancy and every birthing scenario

  • Learn about the pelvis, baby positions, and optimal positions for labour and birth

  • Exercises and movement you can do during pregnancy and labour to support birth, as well as prevent tearing

  • Controlling the controllables – understand what is in your control and what should be allowed to progress by itself. This may include your birthing body or your medical care providers who are medically trained to support your birth

  • A very gentle and highly effective massage technique which will stimulate the production of the body’s natural pain relieving hormones

  • How to create a supportive environment wherever you birth your baby/babies

  • How to write your birth preferences & share them with your medical care providers

  • The birth partners incredibly important role and how they can support you throughout pregnancy, labour, and birth​

  • Postnatal recovery, how to prepare for parenthood, and the fourth trimester when your baby is here

Frequently Asked Questions

  • When’s a good time to do the course?
    It’s recommended to complete the course by 32 weeks, however you are welcome at any stage of your pregnancy, right up to your baby’s due time, it really is never too late! Obviously the earlier you register for a course the longer you have to enjoy the hub benefits. Hypnobirthing and mindfulness become more powerful with regular practice, so starting sooner rather than later can really help too.
  • Do you charge for travel/parking?
    I do not charge for travel beyond 30minutes car journey, or 45 public transport. I do charge for parking costs.
  • Do I need to prepare anyting ?
    No, just a comfy space with a drink, and a pen if you want to make notes.
  • I’m planning a natural birth but have been advised I may have to have a Caesarean Section, which course should I do?
    We recommend the all births course, as this will provide you with all that you need to prepare for a physiological birth but also includes what happens during an abdominal birth (caesarean section) so you will learn about both types of birth.
  • Could I do a private course with a pregnant friend?
    Yes, absolutely! Should you have a pregnant friend/relative who also wants to do the course I can come to one of your homes (or do the course online via Zoom) and run a private course at a discount.
  • What if I pay for a course and my baby arrives before the course has started/finished?
    If your baby is born prior to starting the course you will receive a part refund.
  • Can my partner or someone else attend with me?
    Most definitely, partners are encouraged to attend! The cost of the course is for a pregnant mum/person and one birth partner, whoever that may be for you.
  • Can I do a course on my own?
    Yes, we welcome all pregnant mums and birthing people.
  • Do you offer a short or condensed course?
    ​Yes, please contact me if you’re looking for a shorter or more bespoke course.
  • I’m not sure Hypnobirthing is for me but I would like to know more.
    Either get in contact for a chat or you can watch a taster session here –Taster Session.
  • I want an epidural, can I still use the relaxation techniques?
    Most definitely. Hypnobirthing really is for all birth preferences and situations. Hypnobirthing is about understanding your body and learning how different choices, including pain relief, have pros and considerations so you can use or avoid them in the best way possible for you.
  • Do you provide Doula services?
    Yes! Please find out more here​
  • Do I need to do another Antenatal course as well?
    No you don’t need to if you didn’t want to, the course provides everything you need to know about preparing for birth. However, some parents either choose to enhance a standard antenatal course with a hypnobirthing course and find the cross-overs areas a really great recap, and some parents find hypnobirthing later on in their pregnancy and so end up doing two courses.
  • ​I was hoping to do a Hypnobirthing course but I can’t afford the classes.
    I can offer payments plan if needed.
  • Can we meet you before committing to the course?
    ​This may be possible yes, and would depend on how close you are to SM4 6RB, or happy to meet over Zoom.