Our comprehensive, modern and unique group antenatal course comprises 6 x 2-hour sessions, taught over 3 or 6 sessions (for dates of the next course see How to Book) face-to-face in Bury St Edmunds:
SESSION ONE - Your Positive Birth:
SESSION TWO – Your Birth Environment and Your Birth Partner
SESSION THREE – Using Your Body and Your Mind:
SESSION FOUR – Your Decision and Birth Planning:
SESSION FIVE – Post Birth and Meeting Your Baby:
SESSION SIX – Caring for Your Baby:
During our 6-week Antenatal Academy course you will get an introduction to mindfulness and deep relaxation, but you will also get the opportunity to book onto Debbie's popular Hypnobirthing Essentials Class which is an exclusive class for Antenatal Academy members and all about learning techniques to help you change your conscious and sub-conscious mind, to help you manage or cope with whatever birth entails, especially if your birth journey takes on a different route to what you expected.
This session is a 4-hour class for you and your birth partner with experienced Hypnobirthing Practitioner and Birth Coach Debbie Willis from Better Birth & Baby.
During this class you will learn how to:
✔ change your sub-conscious to create transformation in your thinking and beliefs, and change your actions;
✔ change your conscious mind to a positive mindset;
✔ place yourself into deep relaxation and self-hypnosis;
✔ reduce or eliminate your worries around the birth;
✔ get rid of any unwanted thoughts and emotions;
✔ manage pain and reprogramme your mind;
✔ maximise the likelihood of a having the birth you want.
+ 5 x Hypnobirthing Audio Downloads
You can also add on bespoke packages for Birth and Postnatal Doula support from Helen Fortes at Natal Nurturing. Helen can support you through personalised 1-to-1 antenatal sessions, attendance at the birth of your baby supporting both you and your birth partner, and postnatally, supporting you through the change and new reality as your baby is welcomed into your family.
Our antenatal classes are for parents in Bury St Edmunds, Stowmarket, Sudby, Newmarket, Thetford, Needham Market, Diss, Eye, Ipswich, Haverhill, or Cambridge and anywhere in between!
You may be planning on birthing at home or at a hospital labour suite or midwifery led birthing unit at West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds, or The Rosie Hospital in Cambridge or Ipswich Hospital (or any of the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS locations).