6 Week Antenatal Course

£175.00

A relaxed, inclusive six-week antenatal course designed to help you feel calm, confident, and well-prepared for birth and early parenthood.

The courses run every Tuesday for 6 consecutive weeks from the courses start date. 

Led by a qualified antenatal educator with a degree in Antenatal & Postnatal Education, the course combines practical guidance, up-to-date information, and plenty of space for questions and discussion.

You’ll explore labour and birth, feeding, recovery, and baby care — with your birth partner fully included. Ongoing feeding and parenting support is available free at Devon Antenatal Family Centre for as long as you need it.

Devon Antenatal Family Centre on Cross Street, Barnstaple 

A relaxed, inclusive six-week antenatal course designed to help you feel calm, confident, and well-prepared for birth and early parenthood.

The courses run every Tuesday for 6 consecutive weeks from the courses start date. 

Led by a qualified antenatal educator with a degree in Antenatal & Postnatal Education, the course combines practical guidance, up-to-date information, and plenty of space for questions and discussion.

You’ll explore labour and birth, feeding, recovery, and baby care — with your birth partner fully included. Ongoing feeding and parenting support is available free at Devon Antenatal Family Centre for as long as you need it.

Devon Antenatal Family Centre on Cross Street, Barnstaple 

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North Devon’s Original Specialist Antenatal Course

Established in 2012

Devon Antenatal was built on antenatal education, and it remains our specialty.

For over a decade we have supported families across North Devon through pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. This six-week course is our flagship programme. Structured, evidence based and refined through years of experience, it is designed to leave you informed, steady and genuinely prepared.

Course Structure

This course runs over 6 consecutive Tuesday evenings from your selected start date.

Each session builds progressively, giving you time to absorb information, ask questions and grow in confidence as your due date approaches.

This is comprehensive preparation, not a one-off workshop.


The Experience

We run thoughtfully sized groups that allow for real discussion, questions and connection.

Sessions are interactive and grounded in over a decade of local experience. Many parents form lasting friendships here and continue their journey within the Devon Antenatal community once their babies arrive.

When your course ends, your support does not.

Cost

£175 per couple

Six structured sessions

That works out at under £15 per person, per session for comprehensive antenatal education delivered by an established provider.

You Will Leave With:

Clarity about how labour works and what to expect

  • Confidence in your birth choices

  • Practical coping tools for labour

  • Partner support strategies that truly help

  • Realistic preparation for newborn life

What We Cover

  • Birth & Labour

  • How labour works

  • Stages of labour

  • Pain relief options

  • Induction and assisted birth

  • Caesarean birth

  • Writing balanced birth preferences

  • Complex pregnancies and multiples welcome

Practical Skills

  • Breathing and coping techniques

  • Positions for labour and birth

  • Hands-on partner support

Newborn Preparation

  • Feeding choices and realistic expectations

  • Newborn behaviour and sleep

  • Practical baby care

  • Maternal recovery and emotional wellbeing

Balanced. Honest. Thorough.

Secure Your Place

Spaces are limited to maintain quality and discussion.

If you are currently pregnant and planning ahead for birth, we recommend booking early to secure your place.

“We’ve attended the antenatal course, breastfeeding, weaning, sleep workshop and baby massage. Every course has been so helpful and informative. Gaynor who ran the baby massage course is brilliant.

Catherine, who runs the centre, is also so knowledgable and simply amazing at what she does! The only way to describe Catherine is like super woman for parents and babies and we feel so lucky to have her support!

The centre itself is the most welcoming and supportive environment with great facilities. It’s so useful having somewhere to change and feed in town. We’re so lucky to have such an amazing centre!”