Early Parenting Workshop

The Early Parenting Workshop – Responsive Parenting Preparation

The transition into parenthood happens only once in a lifetime — the birth of your first baby. Our Early Parenting Workshop is a relaxed, informal, prenatal education session designed to support expectant parents as they prepare for the moments immediately after birth and through the first weeks with their newborn.

The workshop follows a responsive parenting model backed by current evidence-based research. Our aim is helping you understand normal infant behaviour & how you can meet their needs while still caring for yourself. Team building between parents and other support people through the early weeks will also be discussed.

Our aim is that you and your partner feel informed, confident, and emotionally prepared for the fourth trimester.

The Early Parenting Workshop is suitable for pregnant parents from around 20 weeks gestation through to birth.

What You’ll Learn

This comprehensive early parenting class covers both baby care and parental wellbeing, with a strong focus on the postpartum period.

Who Is This Workshop For?

• First-time parents

• Pregnant couples seeking gentle, attachment-focused parenting information

• Expectant parents wanting to establish breastfeeding and navigate any hurdles that may arise

• Those looking for insights into infant sleep patterns, soothing and how infants communicate

• What to expect through the fourth trimester and understand the hormones involved

Why Attend an Early Parenting Workshop?

The early weeks with a newborn are intense, emotional, and transformative. This workshop helps you:

• Understand normal newborn behaviour

• Prepare for the realities of the fourth trimester

• Build confidence in caring for your baby

• Feel supported as a new parent

• Strengthen your partnership during early parenthood

Topics Covered

• A brief history of parenting & the current responsive parenting model
• Understanding the mother/baby dyad
• The golden hour immediately after birth
• Liquid gold - colostrum - what it is and why it's so important
• Breastfeeding - establishing breastfeeding and making milk
• How partners and other support people can help with breastfeeding
• Newborn sleep for you & your baby
• Safe sleep & meeting your baby's need to have you physically close
• Soothing, settling & your baby's newborn nervous system
• Baby-wearing and its benefits
• Infant communication - crying & other cues
• Understanding the birthing persons hormonal and brain changes after birth
• Partners and the fourth trimester
• Maintaining your relationship after baby arrives
• Newborn procedures
• Dedicated question time for individual concerns