Antenatal Classes in South Lakes & Cumbria | Doula Diary Birth Preparation

🌿The Antenatal Course That Prepares You & Your Birth Partner for Birth and Real Life With a Baby.

This is a deeply supportive group programme designed to help you feel informed, confident, and in your body as you prepare for birth, early parenthood, and everything in between

Delivered by a Leanne a registered nurse and experienced doula & Facilitated by Megan a KG Hypnobirthing Teacher this course blends evidence-based education with practical skills, emotional preparation, and ongoing support so you’re not left holding it all on your own.

🤍 What’s Included

✨ 6 in-person sessions in a small, supportive group

✨1 Live Session with Q&A about Pelvic Health & Diastasis Recti

✨ Ongoing WhatsApp support throughout the course and those early postpartum days.

✨ Clear, honest guidance on birth, newborn life, and the postpartum period

✨ Strong focus on partner support so you’re a team, not spectators

✨ Specialist hypnobirthing tools taught by Megan, an accredited KG Hypnobirthing teacher

✨10% Discount for 1 Doula Diary Parent & Wellbeing Class

✨Monthly Zoom Coaching post course covering topics such as Infant Feeding, Sleeping, Pelvic Health & Rehabilitation, General Wellbeing Check In, Tailored towards what you need in that moment.

👶 Practical Skills for Real Life

We go far beyond “the theory” and focus on what actually helps once your baby is here, including:

• Bathing and changing your baby

• Safe sleep guidance

• Babywearing support and options

• Understanding newborn behaviour and cues

• Preparing for the emotional and physical realities of the postpartum period

These are skills you can practice, not just hear about.

🌱 A Strong Focus on Partner Support

Your birth partner is not an extra they are central.

This course equips partners with:

• Practical ways to support during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum

• Hands-on comfort measures and baby care skills

• Confidence in their role, so they know how to help and when to step in

• Tools to support both the birthing person and themselves

Meet The Team

🌀 Somatic Understanding – Why It Matters

Throughout the programme, we weave in somatic awareness learning to listen to your body rather than getting stuck in the thinking, analysing brain.

Birth doesn’t happen in your head.

It happens when the body feels safe, supported, and able to let go.

Somatic practices help you:

• Tune into bodily cues and instincts

• Reduce fear and overthinking

• Stay present during labour

• Build trust in your body’s innate wisdom

This embodied approach supports smoother labour, better coping, and a more grounded transition into parenthood.

🌙 Hypnobirthing Tools (KG Hypnobirthing)

As part of the course, you’ll receive hypnobirthing techniques taught by Megan, an accredited KG Hypnobirthing teacher, including:

• Breathing and relaxation tools

• Mindset and fear-release techniques

• Practical tools partners can use during labour

• Language and understanding that supports calm, confidence, and choice

🌸 Who This Course Is For

This course is ideal if you want to:

• Feel informed without being overwhelmed

• Prepare practically for life with a newborn

• Build confidence in your body and your choices

• Feel supported before, during, and after birth

• Approach birth and parenting as a team

Your investment:

• Minimum of 12+ face to face hours of professional-led support

• Delivered by a registered nurse, experienced doula, and accredited hypnobirthing teacher + Wonderful Local Guest Experts

• With ongoing Coaching & WhatsApp support (which often becomes the most valuable part)

• Covering birth, newborn care, partner preparation, and postpartum, not one slice, but the whole transition

Optional additional social gathering once babies are born🥂

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