About
this Course
Postnatal and Baby Classes Liverpool:
Read more about the New Baby workshop to discover how confident and prepared you can feel before baby arrives.
The New Baby workshop topics include:
- Your baby’s transition from womb to world
- Breathing, heart rate and temperature
- Cord care
- Skin care
- Vitamin K
- Skin to Skin
- Formula feeding
- Recognising causes for concern
- When to seek advice
- Nappy expectations and changing
- Winding/burping baby
- Practical bathing and dressing baby
- Screening
- Jaundice
- Promoting healthy development
- Sleeping patterns
- Settling a crying baby
- Development expectations
- Sleep safety, co-sleeping, and swaddling
The breastfeeding workshop is both informative and practical, so you will feel confident the moment your baby is born.
Read more about this comprehensive workshop.
Breastfeeding workshop –
- Collecting colostrum antenatally
- Preventing complications
- Feeding cues
- Breastfeeding position and attachment
- Practical with knitted breasts and dolls to practice
- Knowing baby is getting enough
- Managing complications/difficulties
- Tongue tie
- Breast care
- Equipment required for breastfeeding
Parents and babies will benefit from understanding how to manage the early weeks and months to make the transition to parenthood easier. The two workshops together cover everything you will need to know to care for a new baby and promote optimal cognitive and physical health.
Session
information
- Suitable from 24 weeks onwards.
- Available monthly and delivered by registered and experienced midwives.
- The length of each workshop is 4.5 hrs (30 minute break).
- Workshop booklet provided
- Fruit and refreshments will be provided.
- Price – £130 (£65 per workshop)
- Complete course of 4 workshops – £235 (£58.75 per workshop) includes all the above plus Positive Labour and Birth + Give Birth without Fear workshops and a free one to one midwife consultation.
- Booking includes partner/companion (optional).
Early booking is advised to avoid disappointment.
Course dates:
Select the date in bold at booking to confirm both dates.
16th June & 6th July FULLY BOOKED
27th July & 3rd August FULLY BOOKED
24th August & 7th September FULLY BOOKED
28th September & 5th October
26th October & 2nd November
23rd November& 7th December
4th January & 11th January
* Please be aware that classes/workshops may overrun
*Postnatal Classes Liverpool: Gift cards are available to purchase
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Complete Antenatal Education Course (4 x Workshops)
A complete and comprehensive course involving all you need to know to achieve a positive labour and birth experience and optimal recovery for any type of birth, as well as caring for a new baby. The full course includes a free one-to-one midwife consultation.
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Positive Labour and Birth Workshop
This workshop offers a deeper understanding of the stages of labour and birth. Some of the topics covered are signs of labour, types of birth, pain relief, emergencies and interventions, and induction of labour.
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Positive Labour and Birth + Give Birth Without Fear workshops
The two workshops together offer the opportunity to achieve a physiologically safe and an emotionally safe labour and birth experience for the birthing mum, birth partner, and for baby. Learn methods to help reduce labour discomfort and shorten length of labour.
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New Baby Workshop
This workshop will prepare you to care for your baby and help you feel confident. Some of the topics covered will include the first 24hrs and first 28 days, what to look out for, and sleep safety.
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Breastfeeding Workshop
This workshop offers everything you need to know to successfully breastfeed your baby and feel confident. There will be practical elements during the workshop using knitted breasts and dolls. You will learn how to recognise baby is getting enough and avoid complications
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Give Birth Without Fear
Give Birth Without Fear is a technique developed in Sweden by Susanna Heli. This technique is different to hypnobirthing in the way that it uses strategies suitable for any type of birth rather than scripts and mindfulness techniques.
FEDANT regulates Antenatal Educators, Breastfeeding Counsellors and Doulas in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Islands.