About this course
9 out of 10 parents-to-be find this course helpful. So we hope you do too! This course is for parents-to-be, grandparents, carers, relatives and friends - for everyone in the new baby's 'bubble'.
This course has the same content as an antenatal group. So even though most of you can't attend a face-to-face antenatal group during COVID-19, you can be reassured that the same antenatal course is right here for you.
It integrates the traditional information given on an antenatal course with a new approach to starting your relationship with your baby before your baby even makes an appearance!
It explains how and why you are so important to this baby, whether you are the mother, father, partner, grandparent or birth partner.
The course has content you can trust. It was developed by Registered Midwives working with Clinical Psychologists and Health Visitors in the Solihull Approach team.
This is a course, a journey through knowledge. If you are looking for information on specific topics, you might prefer NHS or Ready Steady Baby in Scotland. Each module takes around 20 minutes to complete, including interactive activities, quizzes and video clips. There is also an optional voiceover. Keep going till the end of the course to prepare yourself for pregnancy, labour and birth and meet your baby!
2. Helping you and your baby through pregnancy and birth
Helping you and your baby through pregnancy and birth. We are going to be thinking about feelings and how it feels for you and your baby. Pregnancy is an emotional time for everybody. Everybody is on a journey: mums, dads, grandmothers, and friends. It’s going to bring up different feelings for different people.
13 Units- 2.1 Welcome!
- 2.2 Who is around you?
- 2.3 How are you feeling today?
- 2.4 Who is helpful to you and how?
- 2.5 Having the right people with the right skills
- 2.6 How do you usually relax?
- 2.7 Relaxing and breathing for everybody
- 2.8 Breathing
- 2.9 Other ways to relax
- 2.10 Different types of relaxation
- 2.11 Relaxing after birth
- 2.12 End of Module quiz
- 2.13 Home Activity
3. Getting to know your baby in the womb
This session will be about: • the home activity • getting to know your baby in the womb and beginning the relationship • understanding how your baby is developing in the womb. • knowing about how your baby’s brain develops • understanding the positions of the baby in the womb now and in labour • understanding the importance of the relationship for your baby’s development
11 Units- 3.1 Welcome!
- 3.2 Your experience of the Home Activity
- 3.3 Getting to know your baby
- 3.4 Your baby’s development
- 3.5 Your baby in the womb
- 3.6 Brain development
- 3.7 The baby’s position in the womb
- 3.8 The baby prepares for labour
- 3.9 The relationship with you and your baby’s development
- 3.10 End of Module quiz
- 3.11 Home Activity
4. You, your baby, and the stages of labour
Getting to know the baby through the labour and birth
11 Units5. Helping you and your baby through labour and birth
Helping you and your baby through labour and birth
8 Units6. Feeding your baby
Feeding your baby
11 Units- 6.1 Welcome!
- 6.2 Your experience of the Home Activity
- 6.3 Feeding your baby
- 6.4 Benefits of breastfeeding
- 6.5 Frequency of feeding
- 6.6 Mixed feeding
- 6.7 Breast milk and your baby
- 6.8 Positioning and attachment, expressing and winding
- 6.9 Feeding is part of the relationship
- 6.10 End of Module quiz
- 6.11 Home Activity
