Birth Educated

WELL….seeing as you all asked…..

Birth Educated is going to be back with more evidenced based midwifery-led birth preparation workshops (PLUS MORE!) in the new year.

We have grand plans for all the services we want to be able to offer you. So we have decided to have a little break between workshop dates to create this content so we know that we’re delivering is exactly what you want and need.

In the meantime, our insta will be continuing with helpful posts and midwife related content for you. And if you want to ask us any questions then feel free to DM us or send us an email.

And if you JUST CAN’T WAIT until February then thankfully (one half of Birth Educated) is available for private hypnobirthing courses and Birth Educated is also available for 1:1 sessions. Just DM/email us to find out more!

An active birth is a birth where your movements and positions aren’t limited, and you are encouraged to move according to your natural instincts during labour. This can be done alongside any monitoring and pain relief in place.

Keeping mobile during birth is so important. It can aid fetal descent (of your baby’s head becoming lower & lower into your pelvis, getting ready to be born!), help with optimal fetal positioning and enable you to move around to assist with the intensity of your contractions.

Evidence shows us that walking and upright positions in the first stage of labour reduces the duration of labour, the risk of caesarean birth, the need for epidural, and does not seem to be associated with increased intervention or negative effects on mothers and babies well-being (Maternal positions and mobility during first stage of labour, Cochrane Systematic Review).

In our workshops we will talk you through, demonstrate, and support you to try out different positions that can be done both in pregnancy and labour to help your baby get into the optimum position for birth, as well as promoting labour progression and providing pain relief during your birth. 💪🏽🤰🏽💫👏🏽

if you’re pregnant, your partner is pregnant or you know someone who is pregnant ~ send them this to do list for today! 💖💕💞💕💗💓

Our first ever birth workshop is happening this Saturday 🌙✨💛✨💫 we are so excited! is set up Laura & Ellen. We are both NHS midwives working on midwife led birthing centres in London, and have over 10 years of midwifery experience between us.

We’ve designed a day of informative, evidence-based and essential birthing education. Our birth workshop also includes a 1 hour pregnancy yoga class with .ro and a 1.5 hour essentials hypnobirthing workshop with Birth Educated’s Laura 🤸🏻‍♂️🌻

Our workshop is designed to also help you navigate the current maternity care system. We believe wholeheartedly in what we do and are so excited to share our knowledge with you.

Please book your space - link in bio to book via our Eventbrite link 🤰🏻🤰🏼🤰🏽🤰🏾🤰🏿

We still have spaces in our September Birth Workshop 💫 LINK IN BIO TO BOOK 💎 Saturday 24th September, 10am - 4pm ✨

We know there are so many birthing preparatory and educational classes out there. And we know that it must be overwhelming trying to choose which one to pick 🤯

We are NHS midwives working in the current maternity care system, facilitating labour care and birth as our jobs. We believe that we have a unique and incredibly important opportunity to share our knowledge, advice and experience with you.

Our Birth Workshop will help you to navigate the CURRENT maternity care system, to inform and empower you ~ and to give you the information we think will benefit you to have THE MOST POSITIVE BIRTH possible ✨

As NHS midwives and antenatal teachers, this workshop is a day of KEY TIPS AND TOPICS we think you and your birth partner need to know 💕

The day will also include a 1 HOUR PREGNANCY YOGA CLASS 🧘🏻‍♀️ with the excellent .ro and a 1 HOUR HYPNOBIRTHING ESSENTIALS WORKSHOP 🤸🏻‍♂️ with 💛✨

It will be a day of education and discussion with likeminded parents at the lovely in Brixton.

Please join us. We can’t wait ❤️
Laura & Ellen 👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️

It’s a minefield out there…..

Health and fitness levels will stand you in good stead for your changing shape and weight over your pregnancy as well as the marathon that is labour and birth. But it can be difficult to know what, and how much to do. Lots of parents worry about exercising especially in the early weeks and especially i if they have experienced a loss previously. We’re here to help give a bit of midwife approved advice!

👟WHAT YOU CAN DO👟

☑️keep up your normal levels of activity- for example stick to comfortable running distances, your regular weight ranges, or your normal cycle length
☑️keep this up for as long as possible!
☑️consider doing more non-impact activities like swimming as your bump grows
☑️be confident in the benefits that exercise is doing for you- for both your physical and mental health

👟WHAT TO AVOID👟
❗️Be very mindful increasing your normal ranges. Pregnancy hormones can make you more prone to injuries so don’t push yourself!
❗️Be mindful of your precious cargo- avoid impact sports or any activities where you feel you may fall over.
❗️Don’t feel pressured into anything, carry on for as long as is right for you, and stop anything that doesn’t feel right for you. You know your body best!

👟WHERE TO ASK MORE QUESTIONS👟
❓there are lots of fantastic Instagram accounts out there, our favourite is
❓women’s health physios and personal trainers are a font of specialist knowledge.
❓if in doubt as your midwife or doctor
❓Drop US an email/message- we are more than happy to answer any questions.

No matter what your hopes and plans are our birth workshop is for you!!

We know that birth is unpredictable, and we know the endless things that can happen.

The care you receive is designed to keep you and your baby safe. Our workshops are designed to make sure you understand the options you have and why any recommendations are being made.

Our birth plan writing, birth rights, and hypnobirthing sessions are all designed to help you get into the mindset that will best equip you for the unpredictable journey that is labour and birth. We want you to be confident the decisions and choices you make are right for you so you feel empowered and I control even if the unexpected happens!

In our workshops we will prepare you for all and any eventualities because we know how important it is to care for you both physically and mentally!

Book your place now for both body and mind preparation for this new and exciting chapter!

With so many antenatal classes and birth information available, why pick to do a workshop with us? Here are just a few reasons why ✨

❤️ We are both NHS midwives working clinically at large London Trusts. We facilitate labour care and birth every day, and have over 10 years of midwifery experience between us
🖤 The information that we provide is evidence-based, current and up-to-date
❤️ We know and understand the current realities of maternity care and we also want to share how to advocate for yourselves in labour and birth, because we know this is so important
🖤 Our workshops are designed for you and your birth partner of choice
❤️ Working as midwives means we have the professional training needed to provide accurate and relevant information. Working as midwives in the NHS means we can share this with you ahead of your birthing experience to ensure you are fully informed 💪🏽
🖤 We know that being prepared and empowered for your labour has the ability to make you excited about the process of actually giving birth! Our workshops are designed with this in mind
❤️ We also run a hypnobirthing workshop, a pregnancy yoga class with .ro and a birth plan preparation session, plus lots more
🖤 The workshop is run over 1 day and is designed for you to meet new mum/dad friends! We know how important forming a new network of mum/dad friends is
❤️ We offer concessions as we want to make sure our birthing education is accessible to all
🖤 We provide you with our personal contact details to ask any individual or personal questions you may have, after you have booked a place on our workshop
❤️ Our workshops are fun, informal and informative!
🖤 Please share with anyone you think may be interested. If you book with a friend, we are happy to offer you both £20 off
❤️ Please DM us with any questions
🖤 Please do not devalue the importance of Birthing Education. We believe wholeheartedly in what we do
❤️ Link in bio to book

🌟And finally, check out our 5* reviews on Google

Love,
Laura & Ellen 👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️

Some lovely feedback from the lovely Kaly who had some antenatal sessions with us! 💕🧡

Ensuring that our clients feel we support them with their own PERSONAL birth journey is so important to us. And ensuring that we EMPOWER our clients is so important too 💥

Thanks Kaly for your lovely feedback! 😍

VERY EXCITED to announce that we’ve got some new branding, some new dates for our birth workshops next year (which we will be sharing soon!), a website in the making AND WE STILL HAVE SOME SPACES ON OUR BIRTH WORKSHOP ON THE 24th SEPTEMBER! 🧡💓🧡💓🧡💓🧡💓🧡💓

Please follow the Eventbrite link to book 🌻 and please DM us with any questions!

Come get BIRTH EDUCATED with us and find out everything that we, Ellen & Laura ~ NHS midwives facilitating labour care and birth ~ think that you need to know! 💖🧡💖

With so many antenatal classes and birth information available, why pick to do a workshop with us? Here are just a few reasons why!

❤️ We are both NHS midwives working clinically at large London Trusts. We facilitate labour care and birth every day, and have over 10 years of midwifery experience between us
🖤 The information that we provide is evidence-based, current and up-to-date
❤️ We know and understand the current realities of maternity care and we also want to share how to advocate for yourselves in labour and birth, because we know this is so important
🖤 Our workshops are designed for you and your birth partner of choice
❤️ Working as midwives means we have the professional training needed to provide accurate and relevant information. Working as midwives in the NHS means we can share this with you ahead of your birthing experience to ensure you are fully informed 💪🏽
🖤 We know that being prepared and empowered for your labour has the ability to make you excited about the process of actually giving birth! Our workshops are designed with this in mind
❤️ We also run a hypnobirthing workshop, a pregnancy yoga class with .ro and a birth plan preparation session, plus lots more
🖤 The workshop is run over 1 day and is designed for you to meet new mum/dad friends! We know how important forming a new network of mum/dad friends is
❤️ We offer concessions as we want to make sure our birthing education is accessible to all
🖤 We provide you with our personal contact details to ask any individual or personal questions you may have, after you have booked a place on our workshop
❤️ Our workshops are fun, informal and informative!
🖤 Please share with anyone you think may be interested. If you book with a friend, we are happy to offer you both £20 off
❤️ Please DM us with any questions
🖤 Please do not devalue the importance of Birthing Education. We believe wholeheartedly in what we do
❤️ Link in bio to book

🌟And finally, check out our 5* reviews on Google

Love,
Laura & Ellen 👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️

✨✨We Can’t Wait✨✨

As NHS midwives and freelance antenatal educators we can’t wait to host our very own birth preparation workshop.

Our content has been cultivated by what our years of clinical experience has shown to be most beneficial for parents, and our experience of providing birth education has given us insight into what and how you all learn best! (And how we can make sure it’s fun as well as informative)

Our workshops are aimed at parents who feel they have a good grounding of the fundamentals (have been to antenatal education sessions, 2nd time parents, health care workers) but also want to deepen their understanding of the complex way that labour and birth is affected by both body and mind. By understanding just what can influence a labour and birth experience, we want to empower you to be able to make choices that are right for you.

No matter what kind of birth you’re hoping to have, or what your pregnancy journey has been so far, this workshop is for you!

We hope to educate and empower you and all in a safe informal space where you’re able to connect with other parents-to-be.

Click here to book your space, or email us at [email protected] to discuss our concessions.

We can’t wait to host you!

WHY HYPNOBIRTHING

✨hypnobirthing is a labour management technique that uses deep breathing techniques, relaxation and visualisations to improve experiences of labour

✨ it can be used by ANYONE. a common misconception is that it is exclusively for labours that are complexity and intervention free, but these pictures show otherwise!

✨hypnobirthing encourages partners to take an active role in helping with breathing techniques, speaking affirmations aloud and reading out calming visualisations.

✨there is a huge amount of evidence showing the benefits of hypnobirthing. a recent systematic review (Sari et Al, 2022) found that hypnobirthing and pregnancy yoga reduce pain and length of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd stages of labour with the best results being when a combination of both were used.

✨ we have both seen how incredible hypnobirthing is for women and couples and how it can positively influence a labour. So we want to give everyone a chance to learn about how they can benefit!

We are incredibly lucky that Laura is a qualified hypnobirthing instructor so will be taking our couples through the key principles of hypnobirthing as part of our Birth Workshop. Book your place via the link in our bio or contact Laura directly if you would like a more in-depth course with her!

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Here’s Laura feeling herself in the lift on one of her NHS midwifery shifts 😎

We love what we do.
We believe in what we do.
Please come and get birth educated with us.

Guys we are now on Google !!! We’ve now got six 5* reviews and we are hoping for more! We are asking all of the beautiful birthing women and people that we have provided birthing education for to leave an HONEST review and tell us what they think !!! 😍

We are delighted with the comments we’ve received so thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️

We hope you will join us for the birthing workshop on Sat 24th September at in Brixton 💖✨

Some lovely feedback that Laura received from a lovely couple who took private antenatal education classes with her! ✨💖✨💖✨

Empowering women and birthing people to understand their birthing choices and their rights, and to make informed decisions about their care is exactly what 👏🏽 we 👏🏽 do 👏🏽 at Birth Educated ✨

We still have a few spaces left at our Birthing Workshop on Saturday 24th September. Please contact us to book a space and please tell all the pregnant women and people you know about us, the importance of birthing education and the importance of being informed 🧠 its something you will never regret doing, we promise you ❤️

Just an example of some of the fun that can be expected at our workshops…..

I always like getting partners involved in activities to give them a chance to see how it feels! And chatting through different situations using demos can be a helpful visual for imagining the real deal….plus it always get a few giggles.

Hats off to Toby for being a willing volunteer…and even letting me post this on the internet. Here he is very happy after ‘getting an epidural sited’. In last nights session we went through pain relief options, their different properties and how/if they can influence labour.

Fun, informative, and thank you Toby!

Ellen xx

BIRTH EDUCATION MATTERS

Some lovely feedback Ellen received from a woman who took some private birth education classes with her.

This is what birth education is all about and why it’s important. So that in every eventuality of birth, you feel informed, in control and able to own your birth experience.

Congratulations to this incredibly strong woman

OKAY HERE IS A THUMBS UP TO BIRTHING EDUCATION 👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿 as NHS midwives, we really feel it’s never been more important 💫

would you think twice spending out on a new mobile phone, a pair of jeans, a fancy dinner or on an Uber several times a month? PROBABLY NOT. so why would you not spend this money on YOURSELF, YOUR BODY AND YOUR BABY 💖

never has birth education been more important, never has it been more necessary to learn about your human rights in pregnancy and birth, on ways to advocate for yourself, alongside designated workshops focused on the essential hypnobirthing techniques and a 1 hour pregnancy yoga class... PLUS LOTS MORE 💘 (pls see our Eventbrite link for the full schedule of the day) 💛

I am and I work at a large London Trust in the midwife-led birthing centre. I am a clinically working NHS Registered Midwife. I want to empower and educate you and your birth partner to the best of my ability.

(thumbs photo to come soon 😉) is the same. Together we feel we have a wealth of knowledge to share with you. We want to facilitate a space of discussion and birthing education in our 1 day birthing workshop.

LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE 🌟🌟🌟
Please contact us to book 💥 Eventbrite link is in our bio or you can DM us directly 💥
Concessions available 💫

10AM-4PM, SATURDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER AT EFFRA SPACE, BRIXTON 👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿

**HELLO**

I am Ellen, and have been a midwife for 7 years working at a variety of large London Trusts. I’ve worked across all areas of midwifery and currently provide labour care to families across both the high risk and low risk units at St Thomas’ Hospital.

With a background in caseloading I have seen directly how important antenatal education and birth preparation is, and what a difference it can make to how women, birthing people and their families experience of labour and birth.

and I have set up because we want to make sure that everyone has access to information and materials which can directly improve their experience of labour. We went to empower you to be in control of your birth, advocate for your choices and decisions, and ultimately take pride in just how incredible you and your body is.

We would love for you to join us for the day! Click the link in our bio to book!