Irelands Leading Birth Preparation Program

Based on the Irish guide to giving birth in Ireland – The Better Birth Book, GentleBirth brings you a complete birth preparation program delivered right to your door or as a workshop!

GentleBirth

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Stack the deck in your favour of having a great birth for you and your baby.

GentleBirth is a 5 week homestudy program including 3 CDs and a 170 page program guide. Our comprehensive easy to follow course takes you step by step, week by week through simple self hypnosis an sports psychology techniques and exercises to prepare for your best birth. Consider it a fitness program for your mind as you and your partner prepare for the big day – calm, confident and in control.

As you move though the program support is always available, via phone and through our GentleBirth online community with over 450 other Irish mums and our GentleBirth Meetups.

The GentleBirth homestudy program can be followed with or without a birth partner and compliments your antenatal classes – as you enjoy a more relaxed pregnancy and prepare for a more confident birth.

Our Workshops

For a more hands on approach GentleBirth is the only birth preparation class of it’s kind in Ireland. This workshop is for parents who want to be actively involved in decision making and prefer to have an understanding of what choices are available to them for labour and birth rather than leaving all of the decisions up to someone else.

Is your partner prepared for labour?

Hospital classes don’t prepare Dads for labour. Dad’s have a huge role in your labour and are very eager to understand what they can do to help. During the workshop you and your partner develop a clear understanding of how to navigate the overstretched busy Irish maternity system confidently and calmly. Dads/birth partners appreciate the importance of their role as birth supporter, facilitator and advocate on this very special day.

Our GentleBirth workshops combine birth hypnosis (deep relaxation for pregnancy and labour) and active birthing principles enabling couples to have empowered, confident birth experiences with or without medical intervention at home or at the hospital.

What we cover

• Physiology of normal birth
• Fear Vs Relaxation in Labour – how to switch off adrenaline
• Applying sports psychology techniques for pregnancy and birth
• Birth hypnosis techniques.
• The neuroscience of a gentle birth – rewiring your brain from fear to confidence
• Facilitating the perfect balance of hormones in labour – undisturbed birth
• Breath awareness during labour
• Comfort measures for labour and birth (what you and your partner can do at each stage)
• Use of the birth ball and other tools in labour (including waterbirth)
• Routine procedures in Irish hospitals and how to avoid unnecessary interventions
• Being a confident birth partner
• Creating an effective birth plan and how to communicate your intentions and preferences
• Informed decision making
• Relaxation techniques for mums and partners for pregnancy and labour
• Why you don’t have to push!
• Birth positions
• Happiest Baby on the Block – Baby calming techniques

You also receive your GentleBirth guide, 3 practice CDs and handouts. GentleBirth couples also receive additional Mp3 downloads. Mums and Dads are also invited to join the GentleBirth yahoo chat group and connect with hundreds of other excited GentleBirth mums around Ireland