Confident Birth Course
Helping you dream, prepare and make informed choices for your birth. Join our English Birth Course.
The Confident Birth course covers many aspects of the birth experience and is especially designed for international families who are English speakers. There will be time to get to know the other couples while discovering more about birth. The informal and creative environment allows for interaction and discussion in smaller groups. Sophie is co-founder of Birth in Holland and gives The Confident Birth Course together with a team of doula’s and midwives. We hope to see you soon at a course that suits your due dates.
TOPICS WE COVER
Labour, Birth and Hormones!
Week 1 Saturday from 10.00 – 16.00
After this 1st day together you will:
*Understand how the Dutch system works.
*Understand the physiological process of birth.
*Feel confident that you have tools that will help the process along.
*Understand how hormones can be your friend and not your enemy.
*Have identified your fears and learnt how to reduce your anxiety about and during birth.
*Have learnt some massage tools for the partner to use during labour.
*Have tips on how to optimalize the golden 1st hour of your baby’s life.
*Be able to start writing a birth plan.
Optimizing Birth no matter what comes your way!
Week 2 Saturday from 10.00 – 16.00
After the 2nd day you will feel confident that you:
*Know the options there are for pain relief.
*Know how to reduces stress during labour.
*Have identified your preferred breathing techniques.
*Are informed about the various interventions that can be offered during birth and what to expect when they are necessary.
*Feel equipped to converse with your care provider about decisions that need to be made.
*Have acquired tools the partner can use to be involved in supporting.
*Understand how induction works and how to optimize labour when induction is necessary.
*Have tips on how to optimize bonding when a c-section is necessary.
*Know when to go to the hospital.
“I cannot speak highly enough of the Confident Birth course run by Sophie. I was fortunate to attend before my son’s birth. Without the practical knowledge my partner and I gained, we would have not had the strength and trust (and tools!) to endure a 29-hours long labor without any painkillers, which resulted in a completely natural birth and the greatest memory of my entire life. So, if you are pregnant and looking for a class which will prepare you for the great day, out of my personal experience I highly recommend The Confident Birth Course.” I wanted to thank you for your guidance and the right attitude you gave us – we remembered all of it and managed to have a very calm and pleasant labor. We managed to deliver without any drugs or tearing, so I`m able to move around a lot now and am feeling great and energetic! “The course gave us time to process and discuss together what our wishes were for the birth of our daughter. we feel more confident about the process and have good practical tools to use during the birth” Exactly as the name of the course says, I feel more confident for childbirth and it is due to your course that I am going to try a labour without pain relief. before the course if I was asked if I would get an epidural I automatically said “Yes, of course, as soon as I can” Now you have shown me that birth is an amazing experience and I so I want to give it my all. I feel much better informed and stronger than before the course. I also know what to expect if i do want pain relief and know that that is okay too”Testimonials
Thank you again for your guidance – it really did help a lot!
‘My hope for each group is that a feeling of community forms as you all start out on this journey into parenthood. Maybe some friendships will form so you can support each other well into the first year of your baby’s life and maybe even beyond. The importance of connections with others can not be under rated during such a mile stone time in your life and while living in a country other than our own.
