At Essential Birth Consulting, your childbirth education is tailored.  All education is provided one-on-one, in your home, at a time of your choosing.

You learn about the things that are important to you and you can ask all the questions you've always wanted to ask.

If you have special needs in your pregnancy / birth (twins, planned caesarean, breech birth, high blood pressure etc), these classes will provide the extra support you need as you make your unique journey.

How can these classes help me?

Hospital classes are available in group settings where you will be one of up to ten couples.  You will be provided with basic information and the information that is covered will detail the options that are available according to your hospital's policies.  You can expect to pay less for hospital classes than private classes.

Private classes are delivered one-on-one, in your home, and they are tailored to meet your needs.  No two clients receive the same classes.  You will receive information about hospital policies as well as other approaches, several hand outs on a range of topics, as well as additional supportive information on all issues relating to pregnancy, birth and babies.  I stand by the high quality of this service, and the fee reflects the quality of education that you will receive.

Individualise your childbirth education by choosing from:

• The process of birth: your baby's journey through your pelvis
• Early days with a newborn
• Birth options
• Nutrition and exercise for pregnancy and post birth
• Pregnancy care options
• The labour and birth process - how can you work with your body and support it in birth?
• Medical and natural pain management techniques
• Active birth
• Common complications in pregnancy and labour
• Interventions and hospital policy
• Breastfeeding
• Emotional aspects of birthing
• Signs and symptoms to tell your caregiver
• Admission procedures – what to expect in delivery suite
• The third stage of labour – we discuss the approaches to the third stage of labour so that you can choose what is best for your situation.
• Induction and augmentation of labour
• Posterior labour
• Unexpected outcomes – this session involves a discussion of outcomes that were not planned.  This may be an imperfect baby, an unexpected caesarean, a sick baby or a labour that was very different to the one you had imagined having.
• Fetal monitoring during labour
• Episiotomy vs tearing - or, how to avoid both!
• Forceps and vacuum - how to minimise your chances of needing this
• Caesarean section - how can you minimise your chances of having one?
• Contraception
• Postnatal depression
• Community support following discharge from hospital – what support is available and how can you access it?
• Vitamin K, vaccinations, new born screening tests and “Blue Books”
• Bathing and settling
• Jaundice in babies
• SIDS
• Waterbirth
• VBAC

Prices: $500 for a full day in your home

$600 for 2 x half days in your home

$300 for a 2-hour session in your home

Additional fees may apply for families residing more than 30 minutes from my Bexley clinic.