Childbirth Education Classes with Midwife Kate

Hi, I’m Kate — a midwife, mum, and qualified HypnoBirthing practitioner. I teach comprehensive childbirth education classes designed to empower you and your birth companion with knowledge, tools, and confidence for pregnancy, labour, birth, and the postpartum period.

My classes are based on the original Mongan Method of HypnoBirthing, a globally respected program with over 40 years of success, and are enriched with additional insights from my clinical experience as a midwife. This includes collaboration with women’s health physiotherapists, in-depth guidance on navigating hospital systems, birth options, inductions, and optimizing your body and mind for a calm, informed, and joyful birth.

Whether you are planning a home birth, hospital birth, or a cesarean, my classes are for everyone. A key focus is supporting birth companions so they can be an active, informed part of your birthing experience rather than just an onlooker.

What Makes My Classes Different

• Integration of HypnoBirthing International’s complete program with my own clinical expertise.
• Collaboration with a women’s health physiotherapist (group classes) or video resource (private classes) to teach pelvic floor health, strategies to reduce dysfunction in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
• Deep dive into birth preferences, induction of labour, and navigating hospital systems to enable truly informed choices.
• Advanced breathing, relaxation, and self-hypnosis techniques beyond traditional HypnoBirthing methods.
• Education on nutrition, mindset, and perinatal psychology to optimize both body and mind for labour, birth, and beyond.

Class Structure: 5 Weeks of Comprehensive Education

Week 1: Building a Positive Expectancy

• Introduction to HypnoBirthing and self-hypnosis techniques
• Understanding the autonomic nervous system and its role in labour (fight-or-flight vs parasympathetic states)
• Mindset preparation and creating a positive, confident outlook for birth

Week 2: Preparing Mind and Body

• Perinatal psychology and emotional preparation
• The five core techniques of HypnoBirthing: relaxation, breathing, self-hypnosis, visualisation, and affirmation
• Breathing techniques tailored to labour
• Pelvic floor education with women’s health physiotherapist (or video for private classes)
• Deep dive into nutrition for pregnancy and postpartum
• Birth preferences and informed decision-making
• Understanding induction of labour (natural and medical)

Week 3: Getting Ready to Welcome Your Baby

• In-depth labour and birth physiology
• Special circumstances and considerations
• Fear release session to reduce anxiety
• Tools and techniques to prepare your mind, including relaxation scripts and affirmations

Week 4: Overview of Childbirth — A Labour of Love

• Comprehensive review of the labour and birth process
• Birth companion training with hands-on techniques: rebozo, acupressure, breathing, and more
• Understanding your partner’s role and how to work together during labour

Week 5: Birthing, Breathing, and Bringing Life

• Optimal birthing positions to reduce perineal trauma
• Overview of the birthing phase
• Breastfeeding preparation
• Preparing for postpartum recovery

Program Details

• Duration: 5 weeks
• Location: The Wellness Boutique, Burleigh Heads (group classes) or privately in your home or online.
• Group Size: Maximum 7 couples per session to ensure personalised attention
• Resources Provided: Relaxation audio links, textbook, spiral workbook, and all materials needed for a confident and informed birth

My classes are about more than just education — they are about empowering you to enter birth with confidence, knowledge, and a sense of calm, ready to welcome your baby with optimism, excitement, and joy.

To book your place or learn more, scroll to the bottom of the page.

 

Classes Available

Private Classes

I offer private classes in the comfort of your own home. The structure remains a 5 week course of 2.5 hr sessions. But also includes a 30 min antenatal and postnatal call or zoom. This is an opportunity to ask questions, focus on specific wants/needs and debrief.

Investment:  $1500

Please note this price is subject to location. 

How to book: Send me an enquiry at kate@thepregnancycollective.com.au or phone 0427 874 140.

Private Classes- Online

I offer virtual online classes both private and in group . The structure remains a 5 week course of 2.5 hr sessions. This also includes a 30 min antenatal and postnatal call or zoom. This is an opportunity to ask questions, focus on specific wants/needs and debrief.

Investment:  $1100 private

Please note- it is strongly encouraged that partners and any support person for the birthing Woman also attend these classes as this program is as much for the support person and partner and will ensure you get the most out of this program.

How to book: To book group scroll down to see the next group intake or send me an enquiry. For private send me an enquiry at kate@thepregnancycollective.com.au or phone 0427 874 140.

Refresher

Have you done HypnoBirthing in the past but are wanting a refresh on the techniques and overall program for your next birth? I offer a refresher course that is individualised needs.

I offer this in the comfort of your own home and is structures over 3 weeks of 2.5 hr sessions. In addition to this I also include a 1 hr zoom online meet and greet session prior to our first class. This is so that I can get to know you and form a program individualised to your needs, to allow you time to debrief or share your previous birth experience and also ask any questions you may have.

Investment : $650

Please note this price is subject to times and location.

How to book: Send me an enquiry at kate@thepregnancycollective.com.au or phone 0427 874 140.

 

Group Classes – In person

I run in person group classes. Below you will see current schedule of upcoming classes however if there is not a date that suits you than please contact me as there may be the ability to set up a class if demand is there.

Group classes (in person) are at The Wellness Boutique studio in Burleigh heads. I limit my classes to a maximum of 6 couples to ensure that every couple has the time to ask questions and receive answers and also to maintain that small intimate feeling of community and connection that I feel is only maintained in smaller groups.

Please note- it is strongly encouraged that partners and any support person for the birthing Woman also attend these classes as this program is as much for the support person and partner and will ensure you get the most out of this program.

 

In Person Group at The Wellness Boutique

Investment:  $660 (per couple)

Location: The Wellness Boutique – 1/151 West Burleigh Road, Burleigh Heads QLD 4220

GROUP

Round 1

Dates and times: 20th Feb 430-7 pm for 5 consecutive weeks

(20th Feb, 27th Feb, 6th March, 13th March, 20th March.

 

 

 

 

 

Please know:

It is an honour to be a part of your pregnancy journey. I am more than happy to offer FREE 20 min initial phone consult where you can pick by brain and get to know me and my style and decide if this is the right program for you.

 

Still not sure?

I’m happy to help book this for you, please get in touch if you need help.

Contact me on kate@thepregnancycollective.com.au or phone 0427 874 140.