Affordable AnteNatal Courses

Everything you need to know to prepare for the arrival of your new baby.

AFFORDABLE ANTENATAL COURSES

Affordable Classes broken into 5 workshops so that you can attend the classes that suit you, your needs and your budget. Only $40 per Workshop

1.  Yoga for Active Birth  - Saturday 21 January 2012, 31 March 2012, 16 June 2012, 25 August 2012, 3 November 2012

Learn and practice positions and breathing for an Active birth.  Get more out of your Prenatal Yoga practice and exercise classes.  This is an in-depth look at the skills you are learning in yoga and how they can help you during your labour.   

Learn which yoga positions you can use in active labour to help bring the baby into the right position, open the pelvis and reduce the risk of tearing - as well ideal positions for resting between contractions.  

Learn how yogic breathing can be used during labour and how this breathing calms the body and mind to help your body release maximum labour hormones - for a more efficient, less painful and even safer birth for you and your baby.

2.  Natural Birth Intensive -  Saturday 4 February 2012, 14 April 2012, 30 June 2012, 8 September 2012, 17 November 2012

Learn the true nature of natural birth, how the media creates unnecessary fear and what the women who have ecstatic births do (and don’t do!)

Discover physiological benefits for mum, baby and family.

Understand the importance of protecting the women’s emotional state and how best to support her.

Learn best positions to reduce tearing and help the baby to be born easily.

Discover how yoga breathing techniques reduce pain of labour.  Many, many women report ‘the deeper they breathed, the more pain relief they experienced.  Close family members and family welcome to this workshop.

3.  Creating your birth plan & vision  - Saturday November 5th 2011, 18 February 2012, 28 April 2012, 14 July 2012, 22 September 2012, 1 December 2012

Workshop practical ways for you and your partner to support the natural physiological processes of labour and birth.  

Going to the hospital too early is a problem for many women’s labours.  When you disturb your rythym in the earlier part of labour, your labour is likely to slow down or even stop.   Learn how to tell when it’s time to go to the hospital.

Create a vision for your birth and your Birth Plan.   This is a birth plan that focuses on how to achieve a positive physical and emotional outcome for mother, baby and father, rather than a list of ‘do wants and don’t wants’ (which you’ll find in some parenting magazines, which is not very useful as a stand alone tool)

Workshop your personal situation:  When to call or wake up your husband, how to manage mother’s & mother-in-laws. What helps you to feel calm, relaxed and safe, how to manage each stage of labour and more...

4.  Avoiding unnecessary intervention  - Saturday November 19th 2011, 3 March 2012, 12 May 2012, 28 July 2012, 6 October 2012, 15 December 2012

Learn about the Cascade of Intervention and how to avoid the unnecessary.  Why do so many women experience a lot of medical interventions? 

Women are made to give birth naturally, but the normal physiological process is often interrupted unnecessarily.  Women are not explained properly the risks of being induced nor of having a caesarean - for the mother and the baby - when making decisions.  Find out how one leads to the other and practical things you can do to avoid unnecessary intervention. Ask questions and discuss how and when medical interventions are used, how they effect you and the baby and possible gentle alternatives.

5.  Your baby in the first 3 weeks - Saturday December 3rd 2011, 17 March 2012, 26 May 2012, 11 August 2012, 20 October 2012, 22 December 2012

Understand what happens immediately after birth.

Discover the secrets to easier breastfeeding and a calm and settled baby - and the baby crawl.

Baby’s are often over stimulated during and after their birth causing feeding and settling problems.  Learn about why many cultures practice a 'confinement period' and how to look after, protect and understand your baby’s needs, as well as your own.

Receive resources of when and where to get help with baby and breastfeeding. The sooner you get help or advice, the easier the problem is to solve.

All workshops are $40 per couple. 

Prebook at least 3 workshops and receive free Prenatal Yoga at Home DVD (offer valid until end of November)

Maximum 20 people (10 couples) per workshop.  All workshops run Saturdays - 2.00-4.00pm

Bookings Essential: Phone Tara on 0405 456 617 or email yoga@tara-darlington.com