Antenatal Education Courses

Prepare for Birth and Baby

Leading provider of empowering & informative Antenatal Education across the UK & Internationally since 2007

We teach you everything you need to Prepare For Birth & Baby. This modern, empowering, fact-based Antenatal Education, combines the latest in positive birth & baby preparation; along with practices from yoga and hypno-birthing; provide key tools for giving birth & recovery.

This course is a fantastic opportunity to make new friends; building that all important network of connection, support & reassurance. Community, at LushTums, is central to everything we do.

You’ll be invited to join the course’s What’s App group so you can receive invites to brunch meet ups, ask questions or share news along the way.

Open to all! All mums-to-be and birth partners, including same sex couples, solo mums and surrogates. Everyone is welcome.

We teach 1000s of expectant parents EVERY YEAR, with courses at lovely venues all across the UK, around the world and now online. All courses are delivered by fully trained, FEDANT accredited LushTums Teachers.

Courses are popular

Booking essential

Once you reach 12 weeks, save your space for our sell-out Antenatal Education Courses - learn all about labour, birth and preparing for life with a newborn; education is key and knowledge really is power!

Plan to attend the course ideally between 24-34 weeks as this gives you all the information you need as pregnancy progresses, helping you to make your best informed decisions along the way. Don't worry if you have left it later than this - we will do our best to squeeze you in!

Why Antenatal Education with LushTums?

We cover EVERYTHING and MORE that you need to know to prepare for birth, including thriving with your newborn in the 4th trimester.

Our informative courses include:

  • The signs labour is starting

  • The stages of labour, how things typically progress

  • What is a contraction? The science behind what your body is doing and techniques to help you cope

  • The role of hormones and the importance of the positive feedback loop

  • The effects of fear on the process

  • Using hypno-birth breathing, yoga positions and mindfulness as a toolkit for labour

  • Clear explanations of all possible medical interventions and pain relief options - and why these sometimes have a much needed place and how to decide if these are right for you and your baby, or not

  • How to make decisions and give meaningful informed consent in the moment so you don’t feel swept along with something out of your control and instead feel fully participating in the experience and making your own choices

  • Where to give birth and your choices around this - home, midwife led unit or hospital

  • We discuss latest research and go through the 4 or 5 key things you can do to help stack the odds towards a smoother birth with least interventions

  • What if something else crops up - going overdue, induction or other medical conditions

  • Essential birth partner tips - what to do, when & how; massage techniques to help, how to be the support that’s needed, how to hold the space when things get tricky and how to create a birthing environment to help things along

  • The 4th trimester - early days with your newborn, what to expect - feeding, sleeping, baby care, mum’s self care , parental care, mental health, visitors, emerging back into the world post-birth and returning safely to exercise

  • Parenting Styles vs. Trusting Your Instincts

  • Some areas also offer Baby First Aid - a key essential for all new parents

  • PLUS invites to meet ups, brunches, picnics to get to know each other

Our Ethos - About LushTums Birth & Baby Preparation

Knowledge is power and being able to make informed decisions, whatever those descisions are is POWERFUL and POSITIVE.

We are all different and so is every birth. Therefore it is important to think about what might be right for you and your baby given various situations.

Experts in this field, all LushTums teachers have been fully trained to deliver Antenatal Education Courses based on the latest evidence based science, research and protocols along with some of the incredible traditional practices of yoga, hypno-birthing and mindfulness that can also help.

Created by our founder Clare Maddalena we have received full accreditation from FEDANT, the UK's awarding body for antenatal education, midwifery & doula services in the UK and have been delivering these courses for over 15 years.

We not only cover all the science about what your body is doing, but also teach you practical, tried & tested tools & techniques on how to 'breathe, move and relax' throughout labour and birth. Unlike other courses we really teach you how to cope with labour, to work with your body and overcome fear as well as how to many informed choices on the day.

Make friends as you learn and prepare for birth and parenthood with positivity and excitement.

Join our Antenatal Education Courses today

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We hope you enjoy your Antenatal Education Course - Prepare for Birth & Baby with LushTums! If you have any questions about the course at all, please reach out. We are happy to help and welcome you to LushTums!

This could be you too!

We have so many wonderful reviews! You can read lots over on Google, but here’s a few things people have said about LushTums Antenatal Education.

  • "Clare's antenatal course left me feeling considerably more informed and relaxed about my first birth.

    . . . Before I started I had a lot of anxiety about how I was going to get the baby out and what pain options might be suitable for me. The course helped me understand my choices and gave me the information and skills to feel confident and even excited about bringing my child in to the world, in whatever way I wanted or needed to do it. Clare has a very kind, intelligent and objective way of delivering information which she adapts well to the different people in the group. The handouts and pdfs have been very useful since, as have the book recommendations I was given. The first aid session with Sarah was also so useful. My husband felt very much a part of the sessions and frequently refers to what we learned over the weeks which gave me further reassurance that together we could do it. Overall I highly recommend the course!”

    SOPHIE, BRIGHTON

  • "I am so glad we chose the LushTums course.

    . . . Deciding which classes to take to prepare us for the birth of our child felt like a complete chaotic minefield for James & I. There was so much to learn but  the patience and way of explaining things was easy to digest. I felt so empowered after the course and felt I had all the info to be able to say this is my birth and Im going to question stuff! The environment was not scary I did not feel silly asking questions and am so grateful for the guidance through the class.”

    VICKY, BRIGHTON

  • "My husband and I found the LushTums Preparing for Birth course exceptional.

    . . . We had already decided to also partake in the standard NCT class and now we have experienced both I can't stress how much better I found the LushTums course in terms of actual techniques and coping strategies. It was far more real and less text book. Alongside the course I have been attending the LushTums pregnancy yoga classes and these have altered my perception of labour and birth in such a positive way. I would recommend any mums-to-be to invest in some 'you and baby' time. It's been so invaluable to me (and our baby) and I would highly recommend the LushTums programme in all capacities.”

    CARRIE, BRIGHTON

  • "I would genuinely recommend Clare and LushTum's Antenatal Ed.

    . . . We had our little girl last week and nothing went to 'plan' - it was a complete shock for all three of us! But we've been really reflecting on the birth over the last few days and realised despite it all we had a really incredible toolkit (from Clare) so we managed to make a crazy experience our own and actually had a really positive outcome in the end! I'd highly recommend.”

    ROWAN, BRIGHTON

  • "So much better than old fashioned courses out there.

    . . . I have to say LushTums Birth Preparation Course was better than NCT and so much cheaper - thanks so much, we both loved it.”

    LAURA

  • "We found the antenatal classes incredible.

    . . . We particularly loved how you approach topics that are quite intimidating - like the labour process - with such positivity and make them feel less overwhelming, whilst still being real about what to expect. You really put us at ease and we’ve left feeling excited to go on this journey and experience it all together. 

    You also covered all the options open to us really impartially, so we could make our own informed decision. We didn’t feel swayed into a certain direction or judged at all.”

    JENNY, BRIGHTON

Thank you for checking out LushTums Antenatal Education!

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