Childbirth & Parenting Workshop
Event description
CHILDBIRTH & PARENTING WORKSHOP
Looking for a more intimate face-to-face experience to learn about your upcoming birth? Want to meet other expectant parents?
Two of Sydney's best midwives are now running face-to-face Childbirth & Parenting Workshops for up to 10 couples in a great location.
Dates
Saturday 5th March, 2022 - 9am - 5pm - Crows Nest Community Centre
Saturday 30th April, 2022 - 9am - 5pm - Crows Nest Community Centre
Saturday 4th June, 2022 - 9am - 5pm - Crows Nest Community Centre
Saturday 23rd July, 2022 - 9am - 5pm - Crows Nest Community Centre
Saturday 10th September, 2022 - 9am - 5pm - Crows Nest Community Centre
Saturday 22nd October, 2022 - 9am - 5pm - Crows Nest Community Centre
Saturday 10th December. 2022 - 9am - 5pm - Crows Nest Community Centre
Cost
$650 per couple (maximum 10 couples per workshop)
Cost includes all workshop content, access to two midwives, worksheets and checklists as well as lunch, morning/afternoon tea and refreshments.
Topics Covered
Pregnancy & Birth
- Warning signs during pregnancy
- Signs and stages of labour and when to go to hospital
- Hormones involves in labour and how labour begins
- Coping strategies for labour including breathing, massage, positions, visualisation and more
- Birth preferences
- The role of the support person
- Vaginal birth
- Pain relief available, including advantages and disadvantages for mum and baby and appropriate timing
- Instrumental birth
- Caesarean birth – procedure, anaesthetic and recovery
Parenting
- Normal newborn characteristics
- Tests and immunisations offered and community resources
- Special care nursery & jaundice
- Breastfeeding and expressing
- Parental adjustment and emotional wellbeing
- Nappies, wrapping and bathing
- SIDS and safe sleeping
- The best baby products to buy and setting up your nursery
- Settling techniques and what to expect from normal newborn behaviour and sleep in the early weeks