Looking for a relaxed, supportive environment and small personalised classes for your childbirth and early parenting preparation?
If so, please join me for a one day class in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges to explore tools and gain confidence for labour, birthing, and early parenting. Delicious organic lunch and morning and afternoon tea provided.
Join Donna to assist with your preparation for your journey towards birthing and parenting.
Please email Donna HERE to be notified for the class dates for 2010.
Classes will run March – November.
Your birth experience will be unique, and so are my classes. Many childbirth educators teach women how to breathe or how to ‘perform’ during labour. I believe that women don’t need to be taught how to give birth, and don’t need the distraction of trying to remember what they learnt in class during the intimate space that labour brings. My goal is to help couples feel knowledgeable and well resourced so that they may trust their intuition and go forth into birthing and parenting with confidence.
In my birth preparation workshops I do not teach a particular method, and instead combine the knowledge that I have gained from many different courses and years of experience to encourage women and their partners to trust their instincts. I am passionate about the need to build inner trust about birth, and for women to open up to birth through physical movement and an active approach to their labour by listening to their bodies. I love to inspire and nurture expectant couples, and encourage them to think outside the square of what most education offers.
Some of the topics that are covered in the one day workshop include:
• Birth plans – do they matter?
• Your support circle – who is in it and why?
• Effective pain management
• Building pain-coping awareness and confidence
• Trusting your body’s wisdom
• An “ask the midwife’ question session
• Birth Art as a means to let your emotions unfold
• Stages of labour and how to recognise them
• When labour stalls and how to work it through
• How to make good decisions during labour
• Newborn procedures – what choices do you have?
• Supporting a newborn and preparing to breastfeed
• The importance of postnatal support
• Early parenting - what to expect
COST: $125 per person (please email Donna for payment details)
If your schedule will not commit to you joining my birthing class, or you feel that you need only a less structured refresher class, private classes can be arranged in the privacy of your home to fit around your requirements.
Please email me for details at or call me on 0404 305 977.
“Donna can share information sensitively, with respect for individual choices but also with the confidence that being well-informed ensures.
Her passion for positive birth experience as a foundation for becoming parents ensures a holistic approach for the couples she supports through the birthing journey: Donna keeps herself up to date on the latest research so that the information she shares is relevant and evidence based. Her classes will leave you prepared and confident, ready for the reality of birth and early parenting.”
Pinky McKay - Internationally certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). Author of 'Sleeping Like a Baby' and '100 Ways to Calm the Crying' and mother of five.
Hello Donna,
Just wanted to say we really enjoyed Sunday and feeling ready to think about the birth now! The setting, food and sense of humor added to a great experience. Thanks again for a great day with wonderful hospitality.
Dani & Steve
Dear Donna,
Thank you for the very informative and inspiring workshop you delivered on Sunday.
We both got a lot out of it and feel it was a day well spent.
I would love the recipes for those cakes too - they were both absolutely divine! Thanks again,
Michelle
Dear Donna,
Thanks so much for Sunday. We got so much out of it. It was exactly what we were after and needed before bubs enters the world. I will definitely be recommending the class to anyone I can. It was a fantastic day with good people, great information and lovely food....
Kirstyn
“We found Donna’s birth class to be really helpful in preparation for the birth of our baby. In a relaxed setting we were able to ask the questions that were important to us and also hear other people’s questions. Having a variety of information on hand such as books, videos and a midwife made the class informative and useful. Donna is a passionate educator and led us through theory and her knowledge of birthing as well as creating the ideal space for us to get in touch with our intuitive selves using creative drawing. We felt so welcomed and nurtured throughout the day.”
Kate and Ben
Dear Donna,
Thank you for a really great birth education day! You made us feel so welcome and comfortable and we were able to relax and express ourselves freely. The information we went through was clearly presented and it gave us reassurance that we are making the best birthing decisions for our family.
The "birth art" exercise was a revelation for me! Not being an arty person I thought I would struggle, but my ideas flowed freely and the discussion at the end of the exercise helped me work through one of my main birthing fears. Thanks once again for a great day.
Caro and Aaron Miles
Donna has been supporting couples and families since 2001. Member of NACE (National Association of Childbirth Educators) and Birth Attendant (Birthing Wisdom – Rhea Dempsey)
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