Courses for You

Baby Massage

Touching and massaging your baby is a natural instinct, and babies love to be touched. I offer a 5 week course in baby massage helping you to promote the health and well being of your baby.  Massaging your baby develops skin to skin nurturing, stimulates your baby’s circulatory system, improves the immune system and improves muscle tone, but most of all makes you and your baby feel closer and more intimate.

Courses are run over a five week period in small groups. £50 per mother and baby.

If you have a group of friends or club that would like to participate together then arrangements can made at a location for your choice.
Please contact me for details amanda@babynurture.org.uk

Birth Preparation Classes

Your local hospital or GP Antenatal class, if you can find one, of ur own feelings and emotions as a couple around birth.

The purpose of this informative course is to give you a complete understanding of what may happen during labour and birth and aims to give you all the practical guidance you need. This will include natural active labour and birth positions, breathing, massage and using a birth ball or a birthing pool.

The aim of this course is to give you an understanding of how birth physiology works and impacts upon the type of birth that you have. It will give you the means to approach your birth with confidence and a positive attitude. You will also be well informed about all your options and encouraged to keep an open mind, ready to make empowered and informed decisions that are right for you and your baby.

Who is this suitable for?
This course is suitable for first time parents as well as couples having subsequent children. The course is taught in small groups so that everyone will be able to play an active part and hopefully develop a network of like minded people with whom they can also draw on for support. If you have already booked onto a NHS funded birth preparation course, this one will compliment, go above and beyond, and give you a more holistic approach to your pregnancy, labour and birth.

What the course covers
The course covers information that will give women and their partners an awareness of their options during the different stages of labour, delivery, pain-relief and postnatal care.

- Birth physiology and anatomy
- Optimal foetal positioning
- Labour and the birth process
- Pain relief
- Positions in labour
- Guided relaxations
- Feeding – breast or bottle
- Your new life with a baby
- Birth partners and how to help

Where and when?
Courses run regularly, over a 6 week period.  You can join the most appropriately timed course for your own pregnancy.  Most women begin them from around 30 weeks onwards.

You will be given all the relevant and up-to-date information in the form of handouts and information packs to keep all the information fresh in your mind.

For prices and contact details, visit our Tariff section.