Course Content
Courses run for a total of four weeks, with one session per week, each session lasting approximately 2.5 hours.
Courses include content being presented via powerpoint, some group activities, DVD's, demonstrations, and a tour of delivery suite.
Compass Health can provide an interpreter if you need one. Please let us know in advance. If you have any other special requests or requirements, please let us know before class so we can help as best as we can.
Week One
Pregnancy
- Changes
- Danger signs
- When to call your midwife
- Safe eating and sleeping
- Vaccinations
Normal labour and birth
- Informed consent
- Optimal foetal positioning
- Positions to assist natural birth
- Pain relief options
- Breathing
- The stages of labour and how to get through
Going to hospital
- What to take
- When to go
The role of the support person
Birth DVD (Optional)
Week Two
Normal birth to complex birth
- Medically interventions / assisted birth
- Forceps/ventouse
- Induction
- Caesarean sections
- Epidurals
After the birth
- Mother and baby checks
- Inpatient stay
Week Three
Postnatal mother and baby
- What to expect in hospital
- What to expect at home
Breastfeeding
- Latching
- Positioning
- Milk volumes
- Mastitis
- Nipple and breast care
Baby care and safety
- Newborn baby checks
- Bathing baby
- Nappy changing
- Settling baby
- Winding baby
- Safe sleeping (including pepi-pods)
- Baby blood tests
- Immunisations
- CPR / Saving a choking baby
- Dental care
- Car seat safety
- Prams and costs
- Baby tummy and play time
- Cord care
- Clothing layers
- Baby Well Child checks
- Parenting tips
Mother care
- What to expect in the first six weeks
- Sleeping and eating well
- Lochia and afterpains
- Postnatal anxiety and depression
- Support at home
Support person
- Help coping and caring for new baby and partner
Arranging hospital tours
Follow up / coffee group list for those who have signed the consent form
Evaluation to be completed (to meet Ministry of Health obligations)
Week Four
Kenepuru Hospital Tour
Wellington Delivery Suite and Postnatal Rooms Hospital Tour
For more information about the hospital tours, please see here.