Bankstown Child Birth & Early Parenting Education
Location
Bankstown Hospital Outpatients Meeting Room
About
Welcome to Antenatal Classes at Bankstown Hospital
- These classes are ONLY suitable for expectant parents who are booked to birth their babies at Bankstown Hospital.
- TWO face-to-face comprehensive sessions OR ONE condensed online session are facilitated by a Midwife/Parent Educator to help you prepare for labour, birth, early parenting, and breastfeeding.
- Each face-to-face session runs on a Tuesday from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm (including breaks).
- Each condensed online session runs on a Wednesday from 9.30 am to 3.30 pm (including breaks).
- Ideally, the sessions should be attended from 28-34 weeks gestation.
- Please ONLY book ONE ticket per session. One ticket includes attendance for both you and your support person.
Day1: LABOUR & BIRTH
This 6-hour session aims to support and empower women to understand how their bodies work to achieve a normal labour and birth.
Topics:
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The anatomy and physiology of labour and the birth process
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Understanding the role of hormones in labour
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Natural and medical methods of pain relief and self-help measures
- Positions for labour & birth
- Ways for your birthing partner to support you
Day2: EARLY DAYS WITH YOUR BABY, SLEEP & SETTLING & BREASTFEEDING
This 6-hour session focuses on other journeys of labour and birth and the early days with a newborn.
Topics:
- Interventions that may become necessary during labour
- Other pathways to birth such as instrumental and operative births
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Postnatal recovery for the mother
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Early days with your newborn
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Normal Newborn Behaviour
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Sleep & Settling
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Safe Sleeping
Location
Contact Details
The following page will ask you to confirm your spot in a class by purchasing a FREE ticket. Please book ONLY 1 ticket per session. One ticket includes attendance for both you and your support person.