Intuitive Birth Preparation
Birth Doula Services, Classes & Blessingways
What are you looking for? Personalised Care or Group Childbirth Classes?
So that you (and) your partner feel as fully prepared for labour and birth, you can hop into either a GROUP CLASS in Invercargill or we can create a PERSONALISED PACKAGE perfect for your budget, schedule, location and where you are in your pregnancy. For easy accessibility, these can be IN PERSON in Southland or ONLINE. Beautiful and meaningful mammas blessingway ceremonies can be created as an alternative to a baby shower leaving you feeling ready to embrace motherhood.
What do you need to best support yourself for labour and birth? Whatever you choose, you will always feel supported and cared for.
Birth Classes and Preparation
Intuitive and Compassionate Birth preparation classes or personalised packages for you and your birthing companion.
Birth Doula Packages
Mamma's Blessingways
A meaningful alternative to the modern baby shower, so you can feel more connected to your baby’s birth and new role.
So YOU feel confident, prepared & excited for your baby's birth.
Intuitive Birthing Classes & Courses
You can do these courses, whether private or group classes, at any stage of your pregnancy, because you will be gifted a 2hr recording of a “practice labour” at 35 weeks that enables you to practice & refresh all the pain coping techniques that you have learnt, in the more realistic setting of your home.
Choose a package that suits your time and budget. We have a
- Birth Bare Essentials Course (2 and half hours) as a refresher or if you are short of time.
- Better Birth (8 hours) for more tools in your toolbox to navigate birth.
- Intuitive Birth - the FULL Intuitive Birthing and Post Partum Curriculum (12 hours). If you are committed to creating the best birth experience possible and because you want to connect deeply to your baby through this birth experience, this is the course for you.
If you have attended a course with us before, please enquire about special discounted prices for a refresher course.
Bronze package
BIRTH BARE ESSENTIALS
A 2.5hr childbirth class.
This is for you if you are short on time or refreshing after attending a full course previously.
Through a guided practice labour you will learn:
- How the uterus works so that you know what to do during labour and birth.
- Specialized breathing techniques so you can powerfully breathe through contractions and experience less pain.
- How to naturally boost Oxytocin, for a speedier and easier labour.
- Relaxation tools to keep mum and baby calm for better birth outcomes
- How to obtain informed consent so you feel confident in your decisions.
Private classes can vary in length and content.
PRIVATE: from $250 + travel
GROUP CLASSES: $150-$200
silver package
A SHORTENED Intuitive Birthing course
BETTER BIRTH
8 hrs tuition plus 5hrs of recorded meditations and hypnosis tracks.
This is for you if you want more tools to cope with labour.
Bronze Package PLUS:
- How hypnobirthing works to give you the best chance of the birth you desire.
- Mindfulness tools so you feel deeply connected to your birthing experieince.
- Practical tools for your birth companions to feel confident and useful supporting the birthing mother.
- An overview of how Spinning Babies® helps labour and birth so that you can use easy positional techniques that can assist your baby into the best position possible for birthing.
- Empathy based communication tools so you feeel FULLY supported throughout labour, birth and beyond.
- Prenatal Psychology.
- Birth visualization meditation.
- Natural induction tools and techniques.
- Creating a birth preference list so you are clear on your negotiables and non-negotiables
- A 2hr recording at 37 weeks, to refresh and practice all the tools and techniques .
PRIVATE: from $640 + travel
GROUP CLASSES: $399
2024 Dates:
Coming Soon
GOLD package
The FULL Intuitive Birthing and Postpartum Curriculum
INTUITIVE BIRTHING
12 hrs tuition plus 5 hrs of recorded meditations, hypnosis and a guided practice labour.
This is for you if you want to give yourself the best chance of being fully equipped for birthing and parenting. You know that birth REALLY matters and you want to connect deeply with your baby and your birth experience.
Silver Package PLUS:
- How to use your intuition so that you can make decisions that are right for you.
- Introduction into baby’s brain development and the importance of secure attachment so that you can gift your baby their best start to life.
- Preparing for a gentle post partum so you can feel better in yourself .
- Becoming aware of baby's cues, so that you understand what your baby needs.
- Nourishing your baby.
- Deeper awareness of the unconscious fears and beliefs that may affect your birth experience.
- A guided practice labour using all the tools and techniques that you have learnt so you know how and when to use them.
PLUS
- A complimentary 60min 1:1 Personalised Birth Preparation/ Integration session
- A HypnoBirthing book
- Private telegram group for ongoing support with like-minded parents.
- Personal phone and text support**.
- Lifetime access to recordings.
- 40% discount of parenting courses
PRIVATE: from $960 + travel
GROUP CLASSES: from$475
**up to 3 months postpartum
2024 Dates:
May 11th, 12th & 18th
August 24th, 25th & 31st
November 23rd, 24th & 30th
3pm-7pm
Let's have a chat to see how best to care for you!
DOULA CARE PACKAGES
Personalised care tailored to your specific needs to include any of the above birth preparation plus/ minus birth attendance and post partum care to support you compassionately through the transition into parenting, so that you, your baby and family can thrive.
Doula Care Packages are designed to maximize 1:1 contact time by using recorded materials.
Prices work roughly on an hourly rate of between $100-$120 not including travel time and expenses.
Let's connect and discuss your options to gain clarity on what it is you really need, so that you can support yourself in the best way possible. Whether that is with me or elsewhere. We can discuss, Personalised Packages, Doula Support, Birth Experience Resolution and/ or beautiful Mamma's Blessingways.
"My joy of finding out I was pregnant was quickly taken over by my life long fear of birth. Because of hypnobirthing I had such a positive birth experience."
New Mom
"Every couple needs to do this course, it's invaluable".
2nd time Dad
"After my blessingway, I felt so strong and courageous like a birthing warrior and felt excited to embark on my journey as a mother and connected to my baby."
Pregnant Mom