Workshops
Midwife-Led Antenatal Workshop “Newborn Essentials”
With Karen Westland of HusH Maternity
A comprehensive crash course in the essentials of baby care and life with a newborn:
£26 per person
Places are limited for a more personal experience
Babies welcome
Topics included:
The first few days
Nappy Changing
Bathing
Cord care
Skin Care
Winding / Colic
Safe Sleeping
Coping with sleep deprivation
About Karen:
Karen is a Mum, Midwife and the founder of HusH Maternity.
She has worked as a Midwife for 19 years within a variety of settings throughout the hospital and is currently working as a community Midwife. From all this incredible midwifery experience she has gained an immense insight into what women and their families may experience in their own unique journey into parenthood.
Karen truly believes that with the right support and coaching the newborn period can be transformed into an enjoyable, even blissful time.
Having a new baby is one of the most incredible emotional and life changing experiences you will ever go through and being prepared and supported can make all the difference.
Daisy Baby & Child First Aid
With Kirsty Crockett or Charliene McElhinney of Daisy First Aid
An award winning baby first aid class offers parent’s the skills and confidence to help their children in an emergency situation. Our classes cover newborn babies all the way up to children of 12 years old.
Classes are relaxed, fun, and practical and will give you hands-on training for a variety of situations where time can make all the difference.
Classes include training for:
Treatment of an unconscious casualty
Baby and child recovery positions
Shock; baby and child resuscitation & CPR
Baby and child choking
Head injuries, fever, febrile seizures
Bleeding, burns, fractures, anaphylaxis
Meningitis; other childhood conditions
Suitable for parents / grandparents / friends & family / babysitters or carers, this workshop will give you the skills & confidence to act fast in an emergency.
Babies under 12 months welcome
£26 per person
Our classes are also great to do if you are expecting your baby, either as a couple, or with family and friends – the class is suitable during pregnancy.
Equally, if you haven’t managed to attend before baby arrived, have older babies that you are about to start weaning, or even toddlers that are starting to wander into dangerous situations then the class is still a great thing to do.