Labour Strategies - IN PERSON
Location
King Edward Memorial Hospital - Parent Education Department
About
*Patients who do not have a Medicare Number will be charged $397.00 per DAY for this course - This price is current at the time of publishing. For any further enquiries and to confirm the full price prior to booking, please contact the cashier's office on (08) 6458 1595 and your Insurance Company.
Please note: To save you time and avoid double-booking, please be aware that the same content listed below is covered in our IN-PERSON/ONLINE 'Preparing for Birth and Baby Course'. Please DO NOT book both classes as they will be duplicate sessions.
King Edward Memorial Hospital offer this free* 2.5 hour IN-PERSON Labour Strategies Workshop to pregnant people who are birthing under the Women's and Newborns Health Service.
CONTENT
This workshop discusses and demonstrates aspects of labour and birth, taught by experienced and knowledgeable midwives.
Topics include :
- Changes to your body in labour
- How labour progresses, involving time spent at home and then in the hospital
- Coping strategies
- Non-medicinal and medicinal pain relief options
- Making of a birth plan/birth mapping techniques
- Practical demonstrations of positions and techniques to use during labour
The content in this class is a practical in-person equivalent to the content covered in week 1 offered in the ONLINE equivalent 4-week parent education course run by our department. Please be aware that this workshop focuses on labour only, not the actual birth process. For this, please attend our 'Preparing for Birth and Baby' workshop or - if you have already had a child previously, our 'Second Baby and Beyond' workshop.
ELIGIBILITY
• Birthing under the Women's and Newborn Services (King Edward Memorial Hospital, Family Birth Centre or Osborne Park Hospital)
RECOMMENDED GESTATION TO BOOK
• We recommend booking a class for when you are 28 - 36 weeks. Any later than 36 weeks, you might find the class length is a little uncomfortable.
LOCATION
This class is held IN-PERSON, between 1:30pm and 4:00pm within our Parent Education Department for pregnant people and their support person.
Instructions on how to attend our department will be emailed out to you a few days before your scheduled session.
TICKET INSTRUCTIONS
• You only need to book 1 ticket - support people do not need their own ticket.
• When booking, please use the pregnant person's name and Medical Reference Number (see Image Below). This can be found on your handheld pregnancy record.
CANCELLATIONS:
Please cancel directly through Trybooking.