First Birth Doula & Parenting Classes
A calm, confident start to your journey into parenthood!
Welcoming your first baby is a time filled with excitement, questions, and many new experiences. At Collective Wisdom, I provide personalised birth doula support to help you feel informed, prepared, and supported from pregnancy through to birth.
Together, we will complete four comprehensive antenatal education sessions, designed to build both your and your birthing partners knowledge and confidence. You will learn about labour and birth, decision making tools, comfort measures and pain relief for labour, postnatal preparation and breastfeeding.
With continuous emotional and practical support we can prepare for a pregnancy, birth and postnatal experience aligned with your values.
You do not have to figure it out by yourself, we can do it together!
A birth doula is a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to a mother and her family before, during and shortly after childbirth to help her achieve the most satisfying birth experience possible.
There is extensive research supporting that a doula’s care remarkably improves physical and psychological outcomes for both mother and baby. Being supported and informed during pregnancy and birth aids in decreasing the risk of birth trauma. Doulas have a positive impact on the well-being of the entire family.
Your Birth Doula
As a birth doula, I accompany women in labour to help ensure a safe and satisfying birth experience. I have completed training through DONA International and Lamaze International.
As your doula, I will draw on my professional training, knowledge and experience to provide emotional support, physical comfort and as needed, before and during your labour.
I can provide reassurance and perspective to you, your partner and/or support team, make suggestions for labour progress, and help with relaxation, massage, positioning and other techniques for comfort.
As your doula, I am working for you, not your caregiver or hospital.
Before Labour
I will meet with you and your partner and/or support people 2-3 times before labour to become acquainted, to explore and discuss your priorities and any fears or concerns, to discuss your birth plan and to plan how we might work best together.
I also want to know your own best ways of coping with pain and fatigue and how you and your partner or support people foresee working together. As your doula I am not there to take the place of your partner or support people in labour, but to assist in supporting you all.
Birth Doula Support Package
Complimentary introductory meeting (30 mins)
2 x antenatal visits
1 x antenatal home visit
4 Lamaze antenatal classes
Labour & birth
Lamaze comfort measure and pain relief class
Postnatal Preparation
Breastfeeding
Birth Planning
Mama Blessing guide
Email and phone support during pregnancy
Complimentary TENS hire from 38 weeks
On call 2 weeks before and after your estimated date of birth
Available for 24/7 contact from onset of labour
Physical and emotional support, from when you request care, in labour for the duration of your birth
1 x postnatal home visit in first 2 weeks after the birth of your baby
Email/phone support up to 2 weeks after your baby is born
Investment: On Enquiry
A $850.00 non-refundable deposit secures your booking.
Balance of payment is due by 38 weeks.
I am unable to attend your birth if this payment is not paid in full.
How to Book
Your Lamaze Parenting Classes
I have completed training through Lamaze International and as a certified Lamaze childbirth educator,
I offer a comprehensive parenting education experience to ensure you have the knowledge and resources to have the most satisfying experience in becoming the parent you want to be.
All classes will be personalised for you and your individual circumstances.
All classes are approximately 2 hours in length
An overview of the class content is below,
just click on a class to learn more.
Labour and Birth
Health Care Choices
Informed Consent
When Will Labour Start?
Stages of Labour
Interventions
Induction of Labour
Complications
Call the Midwife!
Best Time to Attend:
From 28 to 32 weeks however beneficial up to due date.^
Comfort Measures and Pain Relief in Labour
Hormones of Birth
The Role of Pain in Labour
Pain Theories
Comfort Measure for Labour
Medical Pain Relief
Best Time to Attend:
From 30 to 32 weeks however beneficial up to due date.^
Postnatal Preparation
Parenting Expectations
Unexpected Outcomes
Maternal Recovery
Caring for Your Newborn
Best Time to Attend:
From 34 to 36 weeks however beneficial up to due date.^
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding History
First Hour
First Days
First Six Weeks
Antenatal Expressing
Expressing
Where to Get Help
Best Time to Attend:
From 34 to 36 weeks however beneficial up to due date.^
Location
Collective Wisdom in Cooks Hill, Newcastle
Lamaze International
Lamaze is a nonprofit organisation that promotes a natural, healthy and safe approach to pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting.
Lamaze education and practices are based on the best, most current medical evidence available. They can help reduce the use of unnecessary interventions and improve overall outcomes for mothers and babies. Working closely with their families, health care providers and Lamaze educators, millions of pregnant women have achieved their desired childbirth outcomes using Lamaze practices.
The mission of Lamaze International is to promote, support and protect natural, safe and healthy birth through education and advocacy through the dedicated efforts of professional childbirth educators, providers and parents.
For more information about Lamaze