Group Workshops
Group Workshops £155
Each antenatal workshop is run over two weekend days, 10am - 4pm and price includes a light lunch. Class format includes:
- An introduction to Bump Buddies and our services
- Information about the stages of pregnancy
- Baby development
- Mothers' symptoms
- Any pregnancy conditions affecting group (eg SPD, Pre-eclampsia, Gestational diabetes) etc
- Positioning for Mum & Baby
- Practical preparations
- Going overdue – causes and potential help
- Labour starting signs and what next?
- Local hospital information
- Home birth information
- Induction
- Birth "tools" active birth, hypno birth, natal hypnotherapy, aromatherapy, massage, breathing, water birth, homeopathy, and reflexology.
- Pain relief options
- Dads roles in labour
- Assisted deliveries – ventouse, forceps, cesarean section, episiotomy
- Third stage – cord to cut or not, placenta delivery
- YOUR NEW BABY!!
- How baby will look, what it's like for him/her, what happens next
- Feeding – Bottle, breast, mixed, expressed. Whatever choice. Issues that can arise with all types of feeding and methods to cope
- Crying – why, what it means, what should you do
- Practical skills
- Equipment necessary
- Teething
- Nappies - disposable, real/cloth. What goes into them!
- Bathing baby and general day to day care
- Mums recovery
- After pains
- Caring for stitches
- Postnatal depression
- Milk supply
- Anaemia
- Longer term effects
- Life after baby
- Change in relationships
- Working life
- Social life
- Summary of the two day workshop
- Bump Buddies additional support
- Facebook support group & meet ups
You will receive a 'Bump Buddies Pack' to use throughout the workshop with information to take away with you as a resource tool.
Workshops Starting August 2011! Book your place on classes from August.
