Five-week prenatal courses program in English of 2.5hrs (12hrs in total)
Based on Lamaze and Hypnobirthing philosophy. Every session will help you feel empowered and confident in your pregnancy and BIRTH! With birth preparation courses, I provide you with information you need to reduce anxiety and prepare you physically and mentally to have a more positive birth experience.
Your body knows many changes through pregnancy, and many of them are difficult for your body to undertake. Knowing how to prepare for labor can help you have an easier, painless, and more satisfying birth experience. You will gain the confidence to give birth without fear to trust your inner strength and intuition. Whether you have a home birth, hospital birth, medicated, or natural birth, those classes can walk you through what you need to know before having a baby.
This event welcomes expecting parents, new parents to attend and share thoughts, knowledge, and emotions.
Class 1: Third-trimester issues/ Birth Symptoms/ Birth plan/ Birth stages/ Induction methods/ C- section
Class 2: Pain relief methods (natural-medical)
Class 3: Positions- Postures for labor/ Breathing techniques/ Labor phycology/ Hypnobirthing experience
Class 4: Breastfeeding
Class 5: Mother and baby postpartum care
It includes the theoretical, practical, and experiential parts. It can adapt to the special needs of each group that will arise (Natural childbirth, home birth, friendly cesarean section, VBAC, twin birth, etc.)
✨ We will make a daily exercise routine for the 3rd trimester of pregnancy for well-being and relief!
✨ We will relax with breaths and connection with the baby.
✨ We will design a birth plan because no matter where you give birth, the focus is on you, and the decisions are yours. ♡
✨ What is the role of your partner, and what can he do to help you?
✨ You will learn different positions and postures that you can use to give birth easily.
✨ You will learn how to handle pain and deal with contractions with different pain relief methods.
✨ How to feel confident and break the cycle of fear- tension- pain?
✨ Own your body- own your birth: We will learn with the use of birth affirmation cards, hypnobirthing, and meditation how to have a dreamy birth experience.
This course is a group course offered in person.
WHEN: April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 5 – from 13:00-15:30
WHERE: Eindhoven
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About the teacher: Touching Life, Anastasia Psaropoulou
I am Anastasia . I am working as a midwife and childbirth educator for the last 10 years. In 2020, I became a mother myself to a baby boy. I came from Greece, and I live in the Netherlands and specifically in the area of Eindhoven for the last 4 years. I am the owner and creator of Touching Life. This idea came up due to the need that especially other expat mothers have to be informed about the maternity health system of the country, their need to share their feelings and possible fears as mothers since they are very far from their country and their own people.
In my practice, I use a holistic approach. Every day I realized how wise nature is and how amazing the body has created. The consecutively home visits to nursing mothers are an integral part of my everyday life, helping mothers with breastfeeding, neonatal care, and discussing everyday issues of concern. I believe that the start of your life determines the quality of the continuation. I see and experience that there is still much to be optimized in this. This is why I’m passionate about making birth better for all by bringing individuals into the center of their experience.
I am accustomed to saying that love, support, and properly documented scientific knowledge will make every woman possible to bring her child to the world as she desires. I believe in scientifically documented obstetric care with a holistic approach that focuses on the needs of the mother, child, and family. Every day, therefore, I try to offer such care to prepare the couple for their new role as parents, a good childbirth experience, and family support in the next few weeks at home.
I aim to meet and get to really know every couple, through an open discussion and by giving them space and chance to express their wishes, to know their options and to be well prepared, not only physically, but also emotionally – for the birth of their child within a respectful environment.
I will be at your side to advise you, solve questions, and provide obstetric care from the beginning and throughout pregnancy to childbirth and the period of postpartum.
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