Group Care

Session 1


  • Birth location options

  • Water labour and birth

  • Who to invite to your birth

  • Pregnancy nutrition and cravings

  • Lifestyle myths

  • Common physical complaints

  • Complimentary therapies - chiro/acupuncture/massage


Session 2


  • Preparing for labour: Why try natural?

  • Love Languages in labour/Partner role

  • Coping Strategies

  • Pain managment

  • Advice for labour

  • Gestational Diabetes screen

  • Prenatal classes

  • Immunizations in pregnancy (DTaP, Covid-19)

  • Cramping/Braxton Hicks

Session 3


  • Birth Plan/wishes

  • Interventions as tools

  • All about pushing/second stage

  • Pelvic floor physio

  • Perineal stretching

  • Fetal movement counting

  • Supplies/prep for birth and postpartum (home/hospital)

Session 4


  • Delivering the placenta - active management

  • Options for the placenta

  • Delayed cord clamping and cord blood banking

  • Skin-to skin, newborn exam, vitamin K

  • Newborn metabolic screen, jaundice screen, hearing screen

  • Circumcision

  • When to call your midwife

  • Group B Strep screen and management

Session 5

Feeding your baby

  • Breastfeeding demo, letdown

  • Colustrum/formula, first 3 days

  • Poops/pees expectations

  • Tongue/lip ties, nipple shield, Haaka/breastpump

  • Use of bottles and soothers

  • Lactation consultants, La Leche League support

Newborn care

  • Pediatrician vs GP, Healthy Beginnings

  • Safe sleep, container syndrome, car seats

  • Cord care, skin care/rash, blocked tear ducts

  • Swaddling, baths

  • Burping/gas, infant probiotics, vitamin D

Postpartum care

  • Perineal healing, bleeding

  • Belly binding, afterpains

  • Sweating, incontinence, tears

  • Postpartum depression/anxiety

  • Posptartum strategies for support