Course curriculum

  • 1

    About the course

  • 2

    Managing Anxiety

    • What is a trigger

    • Managing triggers

    • Triggers

    • Anxiety in pregnancy

    • How I managed my anxieties

    • Memory making in this pregnancy

    • Protecting yourself from unwanted comments

    • You do you

    • Regaining trust in your body

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Journaling

    • When to get support

    • What has helped you in the past?

    • Getting you through

    • Grounding techniques

    • How do you feel grounded and calm?

    • Your milestones

    • Mindfulness activities to help you feel calmer

    • Getting through the next...

    • Nova Antenatal Journey workbook notes

    • Nova Antenatal Parent Journey Workbook

  • 3

    Reducing worry about scans and movements

  • 4

    Feeling safe during birth

    • Additional support

    • Additional care in this pregnancy

    • Reasons to go to hospital at any time

    • Keeping healthy in pregnancy

    • Keeping safe in pregnancy

    • Nova Scan Note jpeg

    • Sleeping on your side in pregnancy

    • Keeping safe and healthy in pregnancy with Mama Academy

  • 5

    Creating a cosy and reassuring birth space

    • What Meg has seen - room cosy

    • Making your birth space feel safe using your five senses

    • Using your senses

    • Food and drink during labour

    • Eating and keeping hydrated

    • Take entertainments with you

    • Birth partners - keeping the space safe

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Protecting your space

    • Creating a safe cosy space

    • Making the room feel safe

    • Where you give birth

    • Involving your child's memory in their siblings birth

    • What Meg has seen - bring memory of their baby into the new babys birth

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Remembering your baby

    • Involving your babies memory

    • Rainbow Baby being born sign

    • Your rights and how partners can best support Mum

    • What to pack for hospital (Mum)

    • What to pack (for baby and birth partner)

    • What to have at home

  • 6

    Rainbow pregnancy relaxation and hypnobirthing

    • About hypnobirthing

    • Anchors

    • Tips for hypnobirthing

    • Hypnobirthing practice planner

    • Rainbow relaxation by Nova Antenatal

    • Couples Connection

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Dad and Birth Partner Relaxation

    • Safe space visualisation

    • Bubble breathing

    • Bubble Breathing by Way of the Koi

    • The Gift

    • C section script

    • Rainbow baby affirmations

    • The Log Cabin - the present

    • Sacred Space relaxation

    • Fear Release preparation

    • Fear release( with music)

    • Fear release no music

    • Fear release

    • Arm drop notes

    • Arm finger drop

    • Arm drop hypnosis by way of the koi

    • Breathing the baby down

    • breathing baby down

  • 7

    Consent and good care for you and your baby

  • 8

    Hormones and physiology of labour and birth

    • Anatomy & Physiology of birth

    • Anatomy & physiology 2

    • The uterus and cervix during labour

    • Bubble breathing

    • Hormones involved in pregnancy, labour and breastfeeding

    • Oxytocin

    • Increasing oxytocin

    • Other hormones involved in birth

    • Getting baby into the best position

    • Discharge

    • Moxibustion

    • Couples Connection

  • 9

    First stage of labour - you got this mama

    • Tara's birth story

    • First stage of labour

    • Signs of labour

    • Don't forget

    • When to go to hospital

    • Reasons to go into the hospital early in the first stage of labor

    • If you are at home during the first stage of labour

    • Things to look out for

    • Contractions and inductions after loss

    • For comfort and progress in labour

    • Tennis Ball Massage

    • What to do during the first stage of labour

    • Couples Connection

    • Rainbow relaxation by Nova Antenatal

  • 10

    Analgesia

    • Asking for pain relief

    • Benefits of using water for pain relief

    • Keeping calm and oxytocin

    • Loving touch

    • Pain relief - Tens Machine

    • Pain relief gas & air and pethidine

    • Pain relief - Epidural

    • Pain relief - when to request an epidural

    • Pain Relief options

  • 11

    Second stage of labour

    • Safe space visualisation

    • The Induction process

    • Vaginal exams

    • Monitoring in labour

    • Monitoring during labour

    • Bubble breathing

    • Active phase of labour

    • Solo birthing

    • Signs baby is nearly here

    • Active Birth

    • Second stage of labour

    • Purple pushing

    • Bishop's Score

    • Breathing the baby down

    • Breathing baby down

    • Advice for birth partners

  • 12

    Third stage of labour

    • Third stage of labour - delivering the placenta

    • Vitamin K

    • Placenta as a trigger

    • Fear Release preparation

  • 13

    Caesarean sections

    • Caesarean section

    • Video of natural C-section

    • Caeserean section continued

    • Having a planned C-section

    • Mum and Baby friendly C-section

    • Your Bishop's Score

    • Requesting a C-section

    • Requesting a C-section continued

    • An unplanned C-section

    • Straight after a caesarean birth

    • C-sections

  • 14

    Inductions and Interventions

    • Inductions

    • Induction after loss

    • Interventions - Ventouse

    • Interventions - Episiotomy and tearing

    • Interventions - Ventouse and Forceps

    • If you go into theatre

    • Bubble breathing

  • 15

    Rainbow birth planning

    • Equal care for you and your baby

    • Tara's Birth Plan

    • Rainbow baby birth plan

    • Caesarian Rainbow Birth Plan (short version)

    • Fear Release preparation

    • Fear release (with music)

    • Fear release no music

  • 16

    When your rainbow baby has been born

    • Skin to skin

    • Skin to skin

    • Skin to skin

    • Post birth surprises

    • Protecting your space on the post labour ward

    • Things to look out for

    • What it felt like emotionally when my rainbow baby was born

    • Newborn infections

    • Jaundice

    • Group-B-Streptococcus-GBS-in-pregnancy-and-newborn-babies

    • Signs of Group B Strep

    • Information on Neonatal Herpes

    • Post birth considerations

    • Skin to skin in action

  • 17

    Recovery after birth

    • Caring for your body after birth

    • Recovery and healing after vaginal birth

    • Recovery and healing after a C-section

    • Recovery

    • Pelvic floor exercises

    • Aftercare

  • 18

    Feeding your baby

    • Breastfeeding colostrum and hormones

    • Colostrum

    • Newborn belly size

    • Baby belly size

    • First week of breastfeeding and baby blues

    • Expressing colostrum

    • Breastfeeding and latching demo

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Latching

    • Collecting colostrum and hand expressing

    • Breastfeeding tips

    • Formula feeding

    • Combi feeding

    • Breastfeeding conversation with Meg and Tara

    • Alternating breasts

    • Hand expressing breast milk

    • Breastfeeding checklist

    • Wet nappies - what is normal?

    • The Bump baby poo chart

    • Lanisoh - Engorgement, Blocked Ducts & Mastitis

    • Lanisoh - breastmilk storage

    • Lanisoh - breastfeeding positions

    • Lanisoh - maternal mood

    • How mothers produce breastmilk

    • Transition from colostrum to milk

    • Breastmilk composition

    • Oxytocin

    • Breastfeeding considerations

    • Colostrum considerations

    • Creating the space to breastfeed

    • Cluster feeds and milk drunk

    • Breastfeeding solutions

    • Positive statements for breastfeeding

    • Latching - GPDQ tips and tricks

    • Clogged Ducts - GPDQ tip and tricks

    • Irregular Feeding - GPDQ tips and tricks

    • Let Down - GPQD tips and tricks

    • Nipple Issues - GDPQ tips and tricks

    • Breastfeeding Complimentary Therapies

    • Lactogenic cookie recipe

    • Latching is learning for both of you

  • 19

    Feeding considerations

    • Feeding cues

    • Feeding Cues

    • Signs of a well-fed baby

    • Feeding sounds

    • Baby poo colours

    • Using a breast pump

    • Inclined feeding with a bottle

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Side lying to breastfeed

    • Storing and reheating breast milk

    • Wet nappies

    • Storing breastmilk

  • 20

    Breastfeeding issues and trouble shooting

    • Breast massage

    • Engorgement and Mastitis

    • Tongue tie

    • Over and underactive supply

    • Overactive letdown

    • My experience of breastfeeding

  • 21

    Safer sleep and reassurance

    • Waking a sleeping newborn

    • Cot considerations

    • Safer sleep reassurance

    • Safer sleep temperature

      FREE PREVIEW
    • Safer sleep habits

    • Safer sleep considerations

    • Settling baby to sleep

    • Baby breathing

    • Safer sleep when to worry

    • Normal concerns

    • Birth partner looking after you and yourself when baby comes home

    • Safe sleep how long should baby sleep in the room

    • Why you should not sleep with the baby on the sofa

    • Co-sleeping

    • Sleep monitors

    • The Lullaby Trust Coni and sleep monitors

    • Getting baby to sleep while looking after a newborn

    • Worrying about sleep after loss

    • Tips for safer bed sharing

    • Lullaby Trust safer sleep card

    • Lullaby Trust Safer Sleep for Babies Guide

    • More about babies sleep

    • Lullaby Trust bedsharing factsheet

    • Lullaby Trust Car Seats

    • Lullaby Trust Produce Guide

    • Lullaby Trust safer sleep temperature

    • Lullaby Trust Breastfeeding

    • Lullaby Trust smoking factsheet

    • Lullaby Trust Dummy Factsheet

    • Lullaby Trust Twins factsheet

    • Lullaby Trust Safer Sleep Advice Premature Babies

    • CONI

  • 22

    Caring for your new baby

  • 23

    Life with a newborn

    • Birth partner looking after yourself and your partner when baby comes home

    • Going out

    • Milestones

    • Changing family dynamic

    • Looking after a baby AND pets

    • Looking after more than one child and twins

    • Realities of motherhood

    • What I wish someone had told me about life with a newborn

    • Looking after more than one child at home

  • 24

    Parenting after loss

    • Someone who should be at home but is missing

    • Parenting after a loss

    • What parenting after a loss meant for us

    • Managing anxiety when the baby comes home

  • 25

    Wellbeing

    • Baby blues and when to worry

    • Creating a social support network

    • Social support network

    • Antenatal and Postnatal depression

    • Signs of postnatal depression

    • Postnatal anxiety and OCD

    • Midwife and health visitors post birth

    • Your support network

    • Feeling your best