Pregnancy Classes
Nourish yourself through your Pregnancy with an assortment of classes specific to the changing pregnant body.
2/22 Beach Rd, Maroochydore
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Prepare, Connect, and Birth Naturally
Dive deep into a wholistic pregnancy journey with our soulful movement classes. As you move safely through every stage of your pregnancy, intertwine yourself with the wisdom of birth education. Leave each session feeling profoundly connected and confidently prepared for your unique birth journey.
About the Classes:
Embracing Your Pregnancy: Mind, Body, and Soul. Our pregnancy classes are more than just movement; they're a communion with the life inside you. We offer:
Nourishing Practices: Safely move your body in ways that feel good and benefit both you and your baby.
Soulful Connections: Create deep connections with your unborn child, your body, and other soon-to-be mothers.
Educative Insights: Every class enlightens you with essential pregnancy and birth knowledge, setting you on a path to a confident birthing experience.
Who Should Join?
If you resonate with any of the following, this is the sanctuary you've been searching for:
Community Seekers: Join a tribe of like-minded women journeying through the same transformative stage of life.
Intuitive Connectors: Set aside moments to profoundly connect with your pregnancy, tapping into the intuitive bond with your baby.
Birth Preparers: Equip yourself with effective physical and breath techniques essential for birth.
Fear Releasers: Transform apprehensions into empowerment, paving the way for a serene birthing experience.
Pain Management Enthusiasts: Discover ways to better cope with labour pain and embrace the intensity of birth.
C-Section Mamas: Whether your journey includes a planned C-section or a desire for a natural birth, we've got your back.
Recovery Optimists: For those keen on a smoother postnatal recovery, our classes help you lay the groundwork.
The Sunday yoga class has 6 different focuses we rotate through:
1. Body Balance
2. Connect with your intuition & create body awareness
3. Hip opening and glute strengthening
4. Labour preparation
5. Restorative
6. Pelvic Floor awareness and softening
NBC recommends at least 1 Pregnancy yoga class/wk.
For more information about our classes and teachers CLICK HERE.
Pricing Options
Intro Offer
2 Classes $40- First time NBC mamas only.
Valid for 2 weeks from first class.
Once off Casual Class.
Valid 18 months.
Casual
Memberships
1 class/week
$35/week
1 week cancellation policy
(Can be placed on hold)
UNLIMITED
$55/week
6-month contract
(Can be placed on hold)
Upfront and Cash payments available
UNLIMITED
$65/week
1 week cancellation policy
(Can be placed on hold)
All memberships $5/week less With the Appetence Active Birth Workshop.
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HOLDS
All contracts can be paused (placed on hold) for 10 weeks accumulative. This includes birth and postnatal recovery period- Any longer than 10 weeks cancellation policy applies. 2 week hold period minimum applies.
Contract lengths do not include membership hold periods
CANCELLATION POLICY
6 month contracts continue for a minimum of 6 months not including a hold period (if taken). After the 6 month period, contract can be cancelled at any time.The cancellation fee before 6 months is 20% of the remaining membership.
Week to week contracts can be cancelled at anytime WITH 1 WEEK NOTICE. After informing Natural Birth Co of membership cancellation, direct debits will stop after 1 weekly payment cycle to conclude the week notice.
Membership debits occur weekly from sign up.
DISHONOUR FEE
$4.40- Please note this doesn't come to me, it goes to the merchant processor and unfortunately is necessary (I have tried to get it removed!).
LATE CANCEL/NO SHOW
$5 fee. Class must be cancelled min 3 hr before the class. Within 3 hours of class start time you will incur a $5 fee.
Pregnancy Workshops
Prepare your mind and body for a Natural Birth, equipping you and your birth partner with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to birth naturally.
2/22 Beach Rd Maroochydore
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For Mamas
As soon as you can after 20weeks of pregnancy for optimal results
$99- BUY HERE
Online Video Workshop
FREE with our Appetence Active Birth Workshop.
The Path to an Easeful and Progressive Birth
Welcome to our Body Balance Class – your essential online movement flow designed to fully prepare your body physically, for the most easeful and progressive birth experience. We understand the unique needs and desires of expectant mothers like you, and our workshop is tailored to guide you on this transformative journey.
Benefits of Body Balance:
Experience Comfort: Embrace pregnancy with confidence, as you learn to alleviate discomfort and pain.
Smooth & Easeful Birth: Our movement flow nurtures the body, promoting a smoother and more easeful birthing process.
Shorter Labor: Unlock the potential for a shorter labour duration, reducing exhaustion, stress and medical interventions.
Labour starts on time: The body has many triggers that are thought to help labour begin. One is baby entering the top of the pelvis, this workshop creates space for the baby to enter the pelvis before labour even starts.
Who is Body Balance For?
First-Time Mothers: You may feel fear towards your body ‘being able’ to birth naturally, this workshop cultivates confidence that your body is in the best physical form to create space in the pelvis, to birth your babe.
Second-Time Mamas: You may have experienced a longer more exhaustive labour for your first, your babe was in a difficult birth position, or your babes head tweaked into an awkward and difficult birthing position during labour. This workshop will prepare you physically to shorten your labour, and guide babe into the optimal position before and during birth.
VBAC’s- Vaginal Birth after C-section: During your first birth did your cervix not quite open all the way, did your baby not move down the pelvis, was your first baby Breech? First of all this is NOT your fault. This workshop will guide your babe into the optimal birth position during pregnancy, allow your babe to move down effectively with contractions during labour, and allow babes head to apply firm consistent pressure to the cervix allowing it to open with ease.
Global Accessibility: No matter where you are, access our workshop from anywhere in the world.
Workshop Highlights:
Online Convenience: Learn and practice in the comfort of your home, at your own pace.
Starting at 20 Weeks: Begin the movement flow at 20 weeks of pregnancy, ensuring ample time for preparation.
Evidence-Based Practices: Trust in a program rooted in evidence-based techniques and insights.
Expert Guidance: Benefit from expert guidance from Amy, registered midwife, to whom you have access to for support and guidance through your pregnancy.
Join our Body Balance Class today and embark on a path towards a more comfortable and easeful pregnancy and childbirth. Let us guide you in preparing your body birth you desire.
$99- BUY HERE
$150 to purchase with our 6 week Online yoga series- Select at checkout.
FREE with our Appetence Active Birth Workshop.
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Welcome to the Appetence Active Birth Workshop – Your Path to Empowered Pregnancy!
Are you ready to embark on a journey towards a natural, empowering, and confident birth experience? Our one-day workshop is designed especially for you and your partner, providing the knowledge, skills, and support you need to navigate the hospital setting and embrace the birth you desire.
As soon as you can after 28 weeks.
9am - 4:30pm held 1 Saturday/month
BYO Birth Partner
INCLUDES FREE Body Balalnce Workshop and $5 off/wk your chosen membership if you wish to attend classes!
Who Is It For?
Expecting Parents: You're committed to doing everything in your power to achieve a natural birth.
Partners: You want your partner to be actively involved, helpful, and supportive during labour, but they may not know where to start.
Progressive Birth: You desire to create a faster and more progressive birth by creating space in the pelvis to allow babe to move down with ease and working with the natural flow of our hormones.
Minimal Intervention: Learning the Pro’s and Con’s of interventions, to allow you and your birth partner to make confident decisions regarding them.
Healthy Outcomes: While your top priority is the health of both mother and baby, you also deeply value the natural, connecting birth experience.
Education Enthusiasts: You appreciate the value of education and want to be as prepared as possible.
Confidence Seekers: You want to feel ready, excited, confident, and prepared for birth.
Alleviate Fears: You seek to overcome any fears related to childbirth and truly believe, "I can do this".
1. Natural Pain Management Method
10 natural practices for you and your partner to integrate to cope with pain in labour
Breathwork
Comb hold
Affirmation
Changing pain perception
Surrender & distraction
Mock contraction
Relaxation of the body
TENS
Water
Sterile water injections
5 meditations to integrate these practises into your mock contraction after the workshop
2. Minimal Medical Intervention Protocol:
How to enhance your birthing hormones to allow for effective contractions.
How to make your hormones provide you with natural pain relief
How to create space in the pelvis allowing babe to move down the pelvis with ease- creating a faster and more progressive birth.
How to avoid the need of instrumental births
How to avoid ‘obstructed labours’ or the ‘cervix not opening’
Knowing the Pro’s and Con’s of interventions (Such as induction, epidurals, breaking the waters), and how to make confident decisions regarding them, from a place of value and empowerment, rather than fear.
Birth Partner Integration, the birth partner will learn:
How to support you emotionally during labour
How to support you physically during labour
How to help you cope with pain in labour if you reach ‘break point’
How to communicate to health care professionals and advocate for your desires.
Natural Birth Contingency Protocol
Create a personalised contingency plan that aligns with your values and birth preferences
First we plan for your “ideal” natural birth and then we use this protocol to prepare for all the different ways your birth can go so you can feel confident that Plan B, C, D & E for your birth completely align with your specific preferences and priorities.
Join us in this transformative workshop and take the first step towards embracing the birth you've been dreaming of. Don't miss out on this opportunity to prepare, connect, and relish in the journey through pregnancy.
INCLUDES FREE Body Balalnce Workshop and $5 off/wk your chosen membership if you wish to attend classes!
Pricing Options
Body Balance Workshop
$99
$150 with our 6 week Online yoga series- Select at checkout.
Appetence Active Birth Workshop
$549 Or
4x payments of $137.25 paid weekly or fortnightly (Select at checkout)
Includes FREE Body Balance Workshop
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$5 off your weekly membership
For memberships, purchase above in ‘memberships’ section
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Privates Appetence Active Birth Workshops can be useful if:
None of the group dates work
You have kids and can’t get them looked after while you are at the workshop.
You have specific needs, a complicated pregnancy that you need specific advice for
You do not live on the Sunshine Coast and desire to be a part of the NBC community
Or you just desire that one on one support.
Private workshops are held in the comfort of your own home OR via ZOOM.
Online Consultations are useful if:
For Pregnancy planning, labour and birth preparation, or Postnatal Birth debriefs.
You are facing a BIG decision and having difficulty knowing the right choice for you
You have BIG decision to make and are want assistance in consolidating conflicting informations, recommendations and research.
You had a negative and complicated birth experience that you would like to debrief, have some logic and explanation about, or trouble shoot what can be different next time.
You are pregnant or looking to fall pregnant and desire a birth different to last time, and want to discuss how to make that happen.
Private Appetence Active Birth Workshop
$999
Online Consultation
$125/hr
($100/hr for NBC mamas current and previous)
Online
Pregnancy Body Balance Workshop
$99- BUY HERE
$150 with our 6 week Online yoga series- Select at checkout.
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For Mamas and Birth Partners
As soon as you can after 20weeks of pregnancy for optimal results
Create space in the uterus and pelvis for labour to start ‘on time’, baby to descend through the pelvis efficiently, the cervix progresses quickly, and you experience a natural vaginal birth.
When our ligaments are out of balance:
Labour starting is delayed- leading to more inductions
Bubs enters the pelvis in a difficult position increasing their size- leading to long more intense labours
Bubs can get stuck in the pelvis- preventing their descent earthside- Leading to C-section or instrumental bith for obstructed labour
The cervix doesn’t open and progress- leading to C-section for ‘Failure to Progress’
(I am so sorry for using these awful terms- I just really want you to understand what I am referring to! Body Balancing is honestly the most important component of your birth prep if you desire a natural birth)
Unfortunately, our modern-day lifestyles don't support body balance, ESPECIALLY in the ligaments surrounding the uterus and pelvis leading to a birth full of obstructions, delay, pain, and intervention.
When you have balanced ligaments in the uterus and pelvis, you are physically preparing your body to have a progressive, efficient labour progression, and birth experience.
When your pregnant body is balanced:
Your labour can start when nature intended
Your baby can engage and descend through the pelvis with ease and efficiency
Your cervix progresses effectively
Accumulatively, allowing you to have a natural birth
With balanced ligaments you will enter your birth like a bad-bitch, having the utmost confidence in yourself, surrendering into your body, trusting yourself to progress easfully through the natural process of birth.
In this workshop you will learn & receive?
5 online videos
1.How Body Balance Works and why it is essential
2.How to sit, stand, and lay to not further imbalance your body
3.30-minute flow to cultivate and maintain balance of the ligaments
4.Pelvic floor specific- how to soften the pelvic floor even more for labour and birth
5.PELVIC GIRDLE PAIN- specific modification for if you are/do in future experience Pelvic girdle pain
Regular check ins from our Midwife Amy to hold you accountable to your Body Balance routine- You have access to Amy for all body balance questions to have
The ligaments have 2 main roles in labour and birth:
Guide bub into the optimal position for the shape of your pelvis during the end of pregnancy
2. Act as a road map within the pelvis, guiding baby to flex and rotate their head, allowing for efficient and easful descent of baby and progression of the cervix during labour
Our 30-minute flow contains techniques from ancient midwifery methods, yogic practises, Spinning Babies and Womens Health Physio teachings.
This workshop is for you if:
You are a mama who wants to have a natural birth, in a short amount of time (prefer to avoid the 40 hr labour thank you very much).
You are a mama who wants labour to start as soon as it is ready.
You wish to avoid an instrumental birth or C-section
You are a second time mama going for a VBAC.
You are a second time mama wanting a shorter labour this time.
You want more comfort during your pregnancy.
Purchase for $99 or with our online yoga series to holistically prepare for birth for $150.
Online Pregnancy Yoga
Wholistic preparation for Birth
$99- BUY HERE
$150 with our Body Balance Workshop- Select at checkout.
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Our online 6 video yoga series is known for its ability to wholistically prepare you for a natural birth.
With 6 videos, 6 different focuses, created by our midwife Amy, these pregnancy yoga flows are specifically designed to:
Help you connect with your breath and your baby
Find and tune into your intuition
Build awareness of your body
Cultivate mobility through the pelvis
Specific postures to bring balance into the ligaments and muscles that surround and are within the uterus and the pelvis
Encourage Babe into the optimal position for your individual pelvis (For more information listen to #35 of our podcast)
Alleviate pregnancy discomforts
Practise mock contractions
Learn how to push our edge of labour
Build strength where your body needs it to birth naturally
Who is this video series for?
The pregnant mama who desires a natural birth, and wishes to prepare herself wholistically
This mama doesn’t live on the Sunshine Coast and is unable to come to pregnancy classes in Maroochydore with me
Or even a mama who lives on the Sunshine Coast, but has toddlers and can only get to class 1/week or no classes/week
Videos included in the series:
Introductory Video
Body Balance Flow
Intuitive Flow
Hip opening and Glute strength
Labour Preparation with your birth ball
Restorative Flow
Pelvic Floor Awareness
We at Natural Birth Co do one flow each week for 6weeks (amongst other pregnancy vinyasa flows, restorative flows, and pilates). You are welcome to follow this video series as a once/week structure or do 2+ flows/week- completely up to you.
FAQ’s
Can I do this series if I have Pelvic Girdle pain?
Absolutely!
In our introductory video I explain exactly how to modify certain positions for if you have the common pregnancy discomfort of Pelvic girdle pain.
Although yoga can help Pelvic Girdle pain- I recommend seeing a Womans Health Physio to receive treatment for your pelvic girdle pain.
Can I use this series for my entire pregnancy?
Yes you receive LIFETIME access to this 6 week video series- you can flow with these videos over and over through this current pregnancy AND future pregnancies.
Do I need equiement?
The only equipment you require is exercise ball and a yoga mat. I give alternative household items that you can use instead of the equipment we use. I will say you would greatly benefit is getting 2x yoga blocks and a yoga bolster to really enjoy the fullness of these yoga flows.
Purchase for $99 or in a package with our ONLINE Body Balalnce Workshop for $150.
Private Appetence Active Birth Workshop
$999
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Privates Appetence Active Birth Workshops can be useful if:
None of the group dates work
You have kids and can’t get them looked after while you are at the workshop
You have specific needs, a complicated pregnancy that you need specific advice for
You do not live on the Sunshine Coast and desire to be a part of the NBC community
Or you just desire that one on one support.
Private workshops are held in the comfort of your own home OR via ZOOM.
More about our Appetence Active Birth Workshop.
Online Consultantion
$125/hr
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For Pregnancy planning, labour and birth preparation, or Postnatal Birth debriefs.
You are facing a BIG decision and having difficulty knowing the right choice for you
You have BIG decision to make and are want assistance in consolidating conflicting informations, recommendations and research.
You had a negative and complicated birth experience that you would like to debrief, have some logic and explanation about, or trouble shoot what can be different next time.
You are pregnant or looking to fall pregnant and desire a birth different to last time, and want to discuss how to make that happen.
Private Consultations are conducted via ZOOM.
Mums & Bubs
Nourish your Postpartum journey with classes specific to recovering postpartum and adapting to your new little bub.
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Usually anytime from 3 weeks postnatal until you feel comfortable (Our longest postnatal mama has been 15 months with bub walking around!)
Postnatal yoga is instructed by registered and practicing midwife, Amy Paulinich.
Often motherhood (especially for new mamas) can feel a bit lonely and isolating, your body can feel fragile, we can often reflect negatively on our birth experience- sometimes creating a disconnect with your bubba, and go through our days feel triggered and annoyed with a fuse that can rip any minute.
Postnatal yoga helps you build an EPIC community of women in the same stage of life who are ALWAYS great listeners, this community can really help you debrief your birth experience, or even if you are not ready for that, just listening to other stories can be therapeutic to your own perception.
We gain strength, flexibility, and mobility cultivating a more comfortable body to live in, happiness with our mass endorphin release, and connection with your bub. Starting every class with a cup of 'Flourish Mums and Bubs' Postnatal tea and chats with the mamas- Then move into a therapeutic flow, declining the nervous system, learning some wonderful affirmations along the way helping us bring calm into everyday life, leaning on acceptance, lengthening that fuse a little longer with each and every class.
Yes, your babies are going to cry, or need a feed or a cuddle through class but that's okay. We need to not let that stop us, keeping us cooped in the house- feeling isolated. You need connection, you need to move, you need to prioritise yourself mama.
1. Book your classes on a Sunday
2. Don't schedule in other 'necessities' that can be done on a different day- PRIORITISE YOU
3. Show up for YOU- No matter how your night went or if your baby didn't have their morning sleep- They can sleep in class and quite often surprise you with how well they 'keep it together’.
4. REPEAT
Now mama, I know you’re pumped to get back into it however, I really recommend seeing a Women's Health Physio before you return to any type of exercise. Whether your birth was completely normal or had some complications.
Want a good chick? I have a goodie here.
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Postnatal Pilates is instructed by registered and practicing midwife, Amy Paulinich.
Often motherhood (especially for new mamas) can feel a bit lonely and isolating, your body can feel fragile, we can often reflect negatively on our birth experience- sometimes creating a disconnect with your bubba, and go through our days feel triggered, and annoyed with a fuse that can rip any minute.
Postnatal Pilates helps you build an EPIC community of women in the same stage of life who are ALWAYS great listeners, this community can really help you debrief your birth experience, or even if you are not ready for that, just listening to other stories can be therapeutic to your own perception.
We gain strength, flexibility, and mobility cultivating a more comfortable body to live in, happiness with our mass endorphin release, and connection with your bub. Starting every class with a cup of 'Flourish Mums and Bubs' Postnatal tea and chats with the mamas- Then move into a therapeutic flow, declining the nervous system, learning some wonderful affirmations along the way helping us calm in everyday life, leaning on acceptance lengthening that fuse a little longer with each and every class.
Yes, your babies are going to cry, or need a feed or a cuddle through class but that's okay. We need to not let that stop us, keeping us cooped in the house- feeling isolated. You need connection, you need to move, you need to prioritise yourself mama.
1. Book your classes on a Sunday
2. Don't schedule in other 'necessities' that can be done on a different day- PRIORITISE YOU
3. Show up for YOU- No matter how your night went or if your baby didn't have their morning sleep- They can sleep in class and quite often surprise you with how well they 'keep it together’.
4. REPEAT
Now mama, I know you’re pumped to get back into it however, I really recommend seeing a Women's Health Physio before you return to any type of exercise. Whether your birth was completely normal or had some complications.
Want a good chick? I have a goodie here.
Pricing Options
Intro Offer
2 Classes $40- First time NBC mamas only.
Valid for 2 weeks from first class.
Once off Casual Class.
Valid 18 months.
Casual
Memberships
1 class/week
$35/week
1 week cancellation policy
(Can be placed on hold)
UNLIMITED
$55/week
6-month contract
(Can be placed on hold)
Upfront and Cash payments available
UNLIMITED
$65/week
1 week cancellation policy
(Can be placed on hold)
Unsure of how to prepare for your birth or what is actually a necessity for you?
Our midwife Amy wants nothing more than for you to have the birth you desire, and for both you and your partner to feel confident and empowered through the process of your pregnancy and birth.
Amy has developed through her experience as a midwife, and her mamas experience in Natural Birth co, the ultimate wholistic approach to prepare for natural birth is to prepare physically, mentally and your birth partner.
We would love for you to jump on the phone with our midwife Amy, to discuss your birth desires (or help you establish them if you don’t have them already), and decide how to best prepare yourself for your birth, with an individualised approach considering your birth style, circumstance, supports, and everything else that comes with being a pregnant mama.