
BIRTH PREPARATION CLASSES
LACTATION CONSULTATIONS
Naarm (Melbourne) & Castlemaine
RECOMMENDED BY MIDWIVES
A Certified Thompson Method Breastfeeding Educator and Fine Tuning Coach with over 20 years experience supporting women to breastfeed.


BIRTH PREPARATION CLASSES

Prepare for a confident, empowered birth experience. We bridge the gap between scientific evidence and time-honored traditional knowledge, equipping you and your partner with essential skills for labor.
COURSE INCLUDES:
- Mind & Body: Expand your knowledge with empowering, accessible evidence-based information from Educators with over 60 years combined experience!
- Working in Harmony: Discover how to work with your body’s natural rhythm for a more positive birth.
- Reframing Intensity: Understand the physiology of birth sensations—why they happen and how to lean into them.
- A Shared Experience: Equipping your partner with the tools and strategies to be a confident, effective, and calming presence.
- Flow & Comfort: Practical strategies to manage intensity, boost your pain tolerance, and help your labour progress smoothly.
- The Golden Hour & Beyond: Set yourself up for breastfeeding success by understanding how your baby naturally navigates the breast. Supporting their innate instincts, will help with the ease of breastfeeding, ensuring a better experience.
- Immerse yourself: Take home your course booklet packed with information about birth preparation including: getting into labour so as to avoid induction, stages of labour, understanding pain, medical pain relief pros & cons, the role of hormones, massage techniques, partners support strategies, positions, breastfeeding, sleep, introducing solids. & much more.
- Q and A opportunities throughout the course.
- Connect with other expecting couples
LACTATION CONSULTATIONS

The first few weeks are essential for setting the foundation for your breastfeeding journey. It can also feel incredibly overwhelming, especially if you lack the hands-on support and reassurance you deserve.
You don’t have to struggle through it alone.
Addressing challenges early is the best way to prevent them from turning into bigger hurdles.
I am a Certified Thompson Method Breastfeeding Educator and Fine Tuning Coach with over 20 years experience supporting women to breastfeed. I visit you at hospital (in the first few days) or at home (in the first 6 weeks) to help you navigate this journey smoothly.
During a typical two-hour session, I will gently observe your baby feeding, offer tailored guidance, and give you practical, immediate steps to help you feel comfortable, pain free and at ease.
A holistic gentle approach
No complicated forceful techniques
Pain Free
A greater understanding of your baby’s behaviour and innate cues
Empowering you to breastfeed confidently
You can book a Lactation Consultation as a discounted add-on when you book for your birth classes so that you are covered after your baby is born. Contact me when your baby is born or soon after.
I will do a visit in the hospital or at home either in the first 24-72 hours or anytime during the first few weeks.
★★★★★
My partner Will and I completed your birth course a month or so ago and just wanted to let you know we achieved a natural physiological birth and welcomed our little girl Elsie into the world on the 24th of June. After a long 48 hour labour, Elsie was born in the birth pool at Box Hill Hospital (we were in the midwifery group practice program) without any drugs or intervention. We wanted to thank you for the invaluable information you provided in your birth classes and feel it really helped set us up to get the birth we wanted. Thank you again!
Harriet and will
★★★★★
All I can say is thank you. Your course & education changed my thinking about my body & condition as “high risk”, “abnormal” & “medical”. I entered labour with a new respect for my body & a belief in it’s strength & power to work hard.
Mark was the other star who put into practice everything you taught him & was the most supportive, caring, relaxed, attentive, knowledgable birth partner I could have asked for.
ellie and mavis
★★★★★
Feeling empowered to achieve a natural birth. These classes informed my partner of the reality of birth & has given us tools to work together during the birth. Wonderful course, highly recommend to others
kristen (midwife)

