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SUMMARY:Birth Prep Masterclass Perth
DESCRIPTION:\nBirth Prep Masterclass\nConfident, Calm and Ready: Bringing Your Birth Preparation Together\nYou may have listened to podcasts, read books, attended classes or spent hours learning about birth. But as your due date approaches, it can be difficult to know how everything fits together and whether your partner feels as prepared as you do.\nThis practical Birth Preparation Masterclass in Perth is designed to help you bring all that learning together, fill in the gaps and prepare to approach labour and birth as a team.\nRather than simply giving you more information, we’ll focus on turning what you know into practical skills you can use on the day. Your birth partner will gain a clearer understanding of labour, what you may need at different stages and how they can provide calm, confident and effective support.\nIn this small, hands-on workshop, with a maximum of five couples, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to practise together, ask questions and leave feeling more prepared for the birth ahead.\n\n\n\nPractical, Hands-On Birth Support Skills\nThis is not a lecture-style antenatal class.It is an interactive workshop where you and your partner will practise:\n\nBreathing and relaxation techniques for labour\nAcupressure for pregnancy, labour and birth\nMassage and effleurage\nPositions and movement for labour and birth\nRebozo techniques for comfort and support\nWays your partner can help create a calm, supportive birth environment\nHow to adapt your tools as labour unfolds\n\n*If you are planning to use hypnobirthing, we’ll also look at how your partner can support your hypnobirthing practice and help protect the environment you need during labour.\nAdvocacy & navigating the system\nFeeling prepared for birth is not only about learning comfort techniques. It is also about knowing how to communicate, ask questions and make decisions when plans change.\nWe’ll explore how birth partners can:\n\nHelp you feel safe, seen and heard\nAsk useful questions without creating conflict\nSupport you to understand your options\nGive you time and space to make informed decisions\nAdvocate for your preferences while remaining flexible\nStay calm and supportive if birth takes an unexpected turn\n\nThese skills can help you feel more confident navigating any birth environment, whether you are planning to give birth at home, in a birth centre or in hospital.\nWhat You’ll Leave With\nBy the end of the workshop, you will have:\n\nA clearer understanding of how labour may unfold\nA practical toolkit of comfort and coping techniques\nGreater confidence using movement, positioning, touch and acupressure\nA shared understanding of your birth preferences\nStrategies for communicating and making decisions if plans change\n\nThe goal is not to memorise the “right” way to give birth. It is to help you feel prepared to respond to whatever your birth brings.\n \n\nWhen Birth Doesn’t Follow the Plan\nGood birth preparation is not about assuming everything will unfold exactly as hoped.\nWe’ll discuss how birth partners can remain actively involved and supportive if labour is induced, pain relief is used or birth becomes more medicalised. Even when plans change, there are still many ways to protect connection, communication and a sense of involvement in decision-making.\nWhy this matters\nBirth is not a spectator experience.\nYour partner has a powerful role to play in helping you feel safe, supported and able to work with your body. But partners often arrive at the final weeks of pregnancy feeling unsure about what labour will look like or what they are supposed to do.\nWhen you both understand the process, have practised together and have a toolkit of practical strategies to draw on, your partner can become an active and reassuring part of your birth team.\nThis workshop is about helping you feel connected, prepared and ready to meet birth together.\nWho this is for\nThis Perth birth preparation class is ideal for couples who:\n\nHave already done some birth preparation and want to bring everything together\nFeel that one person has done more preparation than the other\nWant to help their birth partner feel more confident and involved\nWant practical, hands-on skills rather than another information-heavy class\nWould like to refresh their knowledge before birth\nWant to practise responding to the different stages and challenges of labour\nAre planning a hospital, birth centre or home birth\n\nYou do not need to have completed a particular birth course or hypnobirthing programme to attend.\nIs This a Complete Antenatal Course?\nThis masterclass is designed primarily for couples who have already done some learning and want to consolidate it through discussion and hands-on practice.\nIf you have done very little birth preparation, you are still welcome to attend, but you may benefit from completing some foundational learning beforehand. Please contact me if you are unsure whether this workshop will meet your needs.\n \nAbout Pip\nPip Wynn Owen is a Perth-based registered midwife, IBCLC lactation consultant and award-winning childbirth and early parenting educator. She is also an NDC-accredited breastfeeding, parenting and sleep health professional, with more than 20 years of experience helping families prepare for birth, breastfeeding and life with a new baby.\nPip’s classes combine evidence-based education with practical skills, honest conversations and a strong focus on helping couples feel confident in their own decisions.\nBooking and payment\nOnce you book, an invoice will be sent to you.\nDue to the small-group format and popularity of these workshops, places cannot be held without payment. Your booking will be confirmed once payment has been received.\nPrivate health rebates\nAs a registered midwife, my services may be eligible for a rebate through some private health funds, depending on your level of cover.\nIt is your responsibility to check directly with your health fund regarding eligibility, rebate amounts and any requirements that may apply. I recommend confirming this before booking.\n\n
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