Description

An Active Birth Prenatal Workshop is a complete preparation for labour and birth.  This workshop will take you into a practical, lighthearted journey into the physiology of the birth process, starting with labour leading to birth all the way to the first golden hours when the child is born.

This experiential, interactive and informative workshop prepares individuals practically, physically and mentally for the intense hours through labour and birth of their child.

You can come alone or with a birth partner who you choose to accompany you during birth.

These workshops take place in the centre of Schiedam on a Saturdays from 10.00 to 17.30.

How will you benefit from these classes:

• Understanding the amazing physiology of natural birth process.
• The difference between an active, dynamic, instinctual and empowering birth to a passive, medicalised and disempowering birth.
• What supports you and your baby during birth.
• Learn how your hormones support you all the way through.
• Practice effective breathing techniques for labour and birth.
• Growing confident in understanding how mother and baby move through this process together.
• Practice various suitable birthing positions for different phases of labour.
• Learn how the birth partner can hold and support you.
• Understand the importance of what is referred to as ‘The golden hour’ after birth.
• How you can apply active birth in a hospital or if any intervention is needed