About Beautiful Beginnings Antenatal courses
Birth Prep
Understand how your body is designed for pregnancy and birth and the changes during this time.
How to support your body for birth.
Optimal positions in pregnancy and for your birth.
Birth environment and why this is crucial.
Hormones for birth and the postnatal period.
Birth
How to advocate for the birth you want and know what you want to be asking.
Know the birth places available here in Christchurch.
Physiological labour, active birth and birth process.
Elective caesarean section birth.
The Unexpected (induction, assisted birth, emergency caesarean sections, etc.).
Coping strategies and options.
Post-birth
All things Feeding.
Fourth trimester and matrescence.
Newborn behaviour and development.
Sleeping (for everyone!).
Practical parenting with hands-on practice.
Relationship care post-baby.
Nutrition and movement for mum.
And more......