| - Antenatal appointments and screening,
- Eating well and feeling good throughout your pregnancy,
- Staying fit and healthy,
- Protecting your back and pelvis,
- Coping with common disorders of pregnancy,
- Strengthening your pelvic floor,
- Your Birth Plan,
- Vitamin K for baby,
- What you need to take with you,
- Optimal foetal Positioning (helping baby get into & stay in
the best position for labour and birth), - Perineal Massage (to help reduce tearing at birth),
- Connecting with baby (during pregnancy and afterwards),
- How you know you're in labour,
- Labour and birth,
- Pain relief options,
- The role of your birth companion,
- Active birth - Positions to help in labour and birth,
| | - Third stage,
- Induction of labour,
- Assisted births,
- Caesarean section,
- Birth environment and choices,
- Water birth,
- Baby checks, Guthrie test, etc,
- Jaundice,
- Mums recovery,
- Baby Blues and Postnatal depression,
- Hospital stay and routine,
- Role of community Midwife, Health visitor etc,
- Keeping your baby safe and well, cot death prevention,
- Caring for your new baby,
- Practical skills - bathing, Top & Tailing, feeding, winding,
dressing, nappy changing, umbilical cord care etc, - Coping strategies for those first
few weeks with your baby. | |