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PowerBirth® Couple Workshop
Saturday 2.00 to 5.30pm
This workshop has nothing to do with your hospital ante-natal classes. Our workshop focuses on the PowerBirth concept.
The aim of this workshop is to empower your partner so that he will be better able to manage the birth environment, to communicate effectively, to prevent unnecessary interruptions coming to you and to back you up.
An overview of what is presented and taught in PowerBirth will be covered, and the purpose of mind training explained so that your partner can better understand what your needs are in childbirth. Theory will be supported by various short practices. In addition, practical aspects of a partners support role in accordance with PowerBirth training will be introduced.
The workshop also looks at the birth environment and how to use it to your best advantage, and how to avoid unnecessary intervention. The workshop is in 2 parts with a break in between.
This workshop is offered to the PowerBirth students and their partners and is available after the 5-week Training.
Workshop Dates for 2010:
Saturday 6 March
Saturday 24 April
Saturday 5 June
Saturday 24 July
Saturday 4 September : BOOKED OUT
Saturday 23 October
Saturday 27 November
What the couples say about the workshop...
'I really enjoyed the PowerBirth Couple Workshop and would like to thank you for painting a picture of how to create an alternative environment in the hospital and how as a partner I can take a leading role in communication so my wife can focus her mind on relaxation and working through her labour'
Matt
'My husband was also much more relaxed this time around and was more helpful which I solely attribute to coming along to the Couple Workshop - he was much better at knowing when to talk to me, communicating with the midwives and encouraging me through labour'
Laura
'My husband was great! I couldn't have done it without him! He was later saying to everybody that the Couple Workshop helped him so much to understand his role at birth'
Priscilla
'My husband used the massage technique learnt in the Couple Workshop of pressing his thumbs into my lower back and that was really effective for relieving back contractions which was what mine mainly were"
Kathryn
'The Couple Workshop was especially helpful as it gave my partner the tools to be able to help me effectively throughout childbirth'
Pippa
'The Couple Workshop really helped Adam when things were not progressing and I would recommend it to every one"
Kim
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