Couples Childbirth Education Workshop
Active Birth Workshop for Couples - Empowering Yourself for the Birth Ahead

ONE DAY INTENSIVE COURSE
Topics that will be covered:

I will teach you how to BREATHE and surrender to labour...using techniques from my book A Labour of Love which can assist you in learning which breathing techniques are appropriate to use in which stages of labour

I will teach your partner...how to massage you using simple yet effective techniques

I will assist you to explore...and try all the various labour positions you can use when in labour at home and at your place of birth

I will address a labouring woman’s needs...mentally, physically and emotionally

We will discuss...the hormones of labour and how they can assist you to remain in a wonderful labour state

I can assist you to feel strong and confident...in your body and its ability to birth…without a doubt. Through gaining an understanding of what is happening to your uterine muscles, the hormones, and the pelvis during the stages of labour you will be better equipped to just allow your labour to flow. Birth is actually about surrendering to a natural process that we need not interrupt, or tamper with unless needed or necessary

We will talk...about the type of food and drinks suitable to have when in labour and why it is important to have a little of something

I will go through the stages of labour...looking at the signs, behaviours and things a woman can do when going through that stage and how your partner can support you

A the end of this workshop you will be asked to work on your ten top wants and needs list: the things that you would really love to have happen when in your labour state.

ONE DAY INTENSIVE COURSE - CHOICE OF AVAILABLE DATES

Saturday 19^th June 2010 - Yoga Now Centre
Saturday 10^th July 2010 - A Place To Just Be
Saturday 25^th September 2010 - Yoga Now Centre
Saturday 6^th November 2010 - Yoga Now Centre
Saturday 4^th December 2010 - A Place To Just Be

Venues: Yoga Now Centre, No 5/18 Hines Rd, O’Connor 9:00am til 3:30pm See Map
or A Place To Just Be, Preston Point Rd, East Fremantle 9:00am til 3:30pm See Map

INVESTMENT: $145 per support team
You will need to bring on the day a fitball, two pillows and a plate of food to share. Coffee and tea will be supplied — to keep you all awake!
To register your attendance, click here

Natural Childbirth — Four Week Journey
A birth-day Educational Experience

Birth is a very emotional, physical and mentally challenging experience in which a woman and her partner must prepare for so they feel totally ready, educated and empowered, where fear has no part to play.

Course Overview
Week One
Preparing your desired birth outcome (Birth Plan)
What type of birth do you want? (Imagineering)
Your thoughts/fears surrounding birth fear – What is it anyway?
Grantly Dick-Read's Fear-Tension-Pain Theory
The pelvis and baby: How does it fit through?
Preparing your partner with massage skills and knowledge about what works

Week Two
Labour hormones: What the uterine muscles are doing during labour
Practical: Breath awareness during a contraction
“Our thoughts create our reality”
Using your fitball
Labour positions, natural pain relief alternatives
Changing the birthing room to suit your needs
External applications to assist in natural birth

Week Three
Positives and negatives to all man-made opiates
The Cascade of Intervention — How to avoid it!
Medical Terminology
Do you have any fears?
Educating your support people to assist you effectively
Watching positive beautiful birth films

Week Four
The stages of labour
When to go to hospital
EDD: What does it really mean?
The Perineum: How to look after it!
Breast is best: The advantages of breastfeeding

Over four consecutive Mondays
DATES: More dates TBA soon, please check again later
TIME: 12:00 midday till 3:30pm
VENUE: A Place To Just Be, 4a Preston Point Rd, East Fremantle. See Map
INVESTMENT: $100 per person for 4 Week Journey

To register your attendance, click here

Gabrielle Targett BA Phys Ed, CBEd (NACE), Reg HB Practitioner, Adv Hypnosis Certificate (WAHA)

As a trained Hypnosis practitioner, Gabrielle combines her ‘Labour of Love’ childbirth educational philosophy and techniques with hypnosis resulting in implementation of positive birthing education that assists in achieving an empowered, relaxing and calm birth. Hypnosis for birth teaches women and their partner how to release all prior programming about birth, establishing how to trust her body and its ability to do the job it is designed to do methodologically.

Some of the topics to be covered during this course

• Hypnosis for Birth Philosophy and beginnings
• How the Uterus works in Birthing * Looking at the "Estimated Due Date"
• What's wrong with Labour * Avoiding artificial induction
• How fear affects Labour * Preparing the birth plan
• Fear, Tension & Pain in Labour * How the body prepares for birth
• The onset of Labour * Rhythmic breathing through Labour
• Releasing Fear * Bonding with the Baby
• Hypnosis Deepening & Visualization
• Imagineering – projecting forward the birth you desire
• Building a partnership with care provider
• Preparing Mentally, Physically and Emotionally for birth

You will learn:

• You will learn how to create an empowered, positive, easier and more comfortable labour and birthing experience.
• Techniques of deep relaxation to eliminate the Fear - Tension - Pain syndrome.
• How a woman's body is naturally designed to labour, open within, nurture & birth.
• How to create a birthing environment that is calm, relaxed, positive and nurturing where you are totally honoured in the choices you make.
• How to remember that labour and birth is a joyful event with a wonderfully positive outcome - rather than tense and stressful experience.

WHEN : Private Sessions Available anytime, please contact Gabrielle
(08 9437 4827) for more information, venues and dates.

INVESTMENT: $110 per hour, minimum of three hours for initial appointment