BIRTHCARE WITH KATIE
IN PERSON Courses IN GLOSSOP
Feel ready for your birth, whatever the day brings
An in-person, midwife-led birth preparation course in Glossop, for you and your birth partner.
No one can tell you exactly how your birth will go, and that's often the hardest part. What you can do is understand how birth works, know your choices, and know how to stay calm and make decisions on the day, whatever happens. Over four evenings I'll take you both through all of it, step by step. I'll be right there with you.
In-person antenatal course · Glossop
The Birth Prep Course
Feel ready for your birth, whatever the day brings. Over four Tuesday evenings, you and your birth partner will understand how birth works, learn practical tools you'll actually use, and know how to stay calm and make decisions on the day.
Four Tuesday evenings · 6:30–8:30pm
The Little Wild Patch, Glossop Market Hall
Small group - just 8 couples
Best booked at 24–30 weeks (dates year-round)
£185 per couple - both of you, all four evenings
WHY PREPARE?
Understand your birth, so there's less to fear in the unknown
In my NHS work, I support people when their birth didn't go the way they'd hoped. Often what stayed with them wasn't the birth itself - it was feeling out of control: nobody had helped them understand what was happening, things felt like they were done to them rather than with them, or it was just completely different to what they'd expected.
The more you understand before the day - how birth works, what your choices are, what might happen if plans change, and how to speak up - the less there is to fear. The birth becomes something you're part of, and you walk in feeling more prepared, confident and calm. That's what these four evenings give you and your birth partner.
This course is for you if…
If you feel like you don't really know enough about what's ahead, you're not alone. Birth can feel frightening when so much of it is unknown, and the unpredictability is the hard part - you just want it to go well, and you don't want to come away from it shaken. Antenatal appointments are short, and there's rarely time to get into the things you really want to understand, so you're left with real questions and nowhere to ask them. This course is where you get those answers, and start to feel ready.
You want to understand what's actually happening in your body, not just be told to breathe
You want to feel ready for whatever happens, so a change of plan doesn't throw you
You're planning any kind of birth, including a caesarean, and want to feel ready for it
You want your birth partner to know exactly how to support you so they don't feel like a spare part
Everything you get
What's included
Hands-on practice together
You'll try positions, breathing and comfort techniques with your birth partner, using real props, not just watching a screen.
A workbook to keep
prompts, tools and space to make it your own, to use through pregnancy and take into your birth.
Support between sessions
A way to reach me with your questions during the course and after it.
Relaxation and breathing audios
to practise at home through pregnancy and use on the day.
A small group of just eight couples
with plenty of time to ask the questions on your mind.
Evening by evening
What you'll learn
Four two-hour evenings that build on each other, taking you from understanding your body to feeling ready for the day itself. This is a hands-on, visual course, with models, illustrated resources and real practice - not just videos on a screen.
Week 1
Understand Your Body, Feel Ready for Birth
Once you know what your body is doing and why, birth stops being the great unknown.
How labour works: your uterus, your cervix, and the hormones driving it all.
How your body is built to do this.
How your birth environment affects your body, and how to shape it wherever you birth.
The fear–tension–pain cycle, and how to break it
Getting your mindset and your language working for you, not against you.
Your first guided relaxation to take home and practise.
Week 2
The Practical Tools for a Calm, Confident Birth
Hands-on relaxation, breathing and comfort tools you'll practise with your birth partner, and actually reach for on the day.
Deep relaxation and birth visualisation.
Breathing techniques for every stage of labour.
Building your relaxation anchor together with your birth partner.
Massage, comfort measures and positions that help labour along.
Perineal massage, how and when to start.
Looking after your pelvic floor, and understanding your baby's position.
Relaxation and breathing audios to take home.
Week 3
Know How Birth Unfolds, Stay in Control
As a midwife, I'll take you through exactly how birth unfolds, and how to feel in control of every choice along the way.
Who's who in your maternity team, and how the system really works.
Informed consent, the BRAIN decision-making tool, and understanding risk.
Where to birth - home, birth centre or labour ward - and how to choose what's right for you.
How to find information you can actually trust, so you're not lost in Google at 12pm.
A step-by-step walkthrough of labour and birth, from the first contractions, to your baby in your arms.
What monitoring means, and the options you have.
Every pain relief option, honestly, with no gold medal for going without.
Week 4
Ready for Whatever Birth Brings
From your birth preferences to going overdue, the unexpected, and your first days at home, the parts most courses skip.
Your birth partner's role, and how to advocate for you
Writing birth preferences that actually get read and respected
When things take a different path: induction, sweeps, assisted birth and caesarean
Going past your dates without losing your calm
The first days at home - what to expect physically and emotionally, and who's there to support you.
Final preparation, your hospital bag, and walking in ready.
What people say
What people say about working with me
Real feedback from people I have supported to feel calm and ready for birth - using the same midwife-led, practical approach you'll get on this course.
These reviews are from people who've completed Katie's birth preparation courses.
I had a real fear of giving birth and Katie made me feel confident and reassured. I was able to use all of the techniques that she taught us. I would recommend Birthcare with Katie to everyone preparing for the birth of a child.
Bec
★★★★★ Google Review
I'm an anxious person but using Katie's techniques made me feel much calmer and confident. She tailored the sessions to meet our needs. Katie is so lovely and leaves you feeling listened to, calm and empowered.
Rose
★★★★★ Google Review
She gave me the confidence to stand up for myself at the hospital. I'm not sure we would have had even half as wonderful a pregnancy end if it wasn't for this lady. We will be using the skills she gave us in our future pregnancies.
K-Dee
★★★★★ Google Review
I'm usually quite a worrier and can be quite anxious but throughout this pregnancy I have really surprised myself with how calm I have been. I really do attribute that to Katie's calming influence. Katie is so lovely and leaves you feeling listened to, calm and empowered.
Hannah
★★★★★ Google Review
This course has given us real practical support as well as helped us develop emotional resilience. We now have great tools to use for keeping a calm and nurturing environment and dealing with any interventions. I'm feeling so much more reassured about giving birth now.
Naomi
★★★★★ Google Review
We have come out the other side feeling very confident and with all the tools we need. On a personal level I feel very calm, a lot of people have commented that I seem very relaxed and in a very good mind space. We are now looking forward to meeting our baby with no real fear.
Charlotte
★★★★★ Google Review
Dates, venue & booking
Choose Your Course
New courses run through the year, each is a fixed block of four consecutive Tuesday evenings, so you can pick the dates that best suit your due date. When you book, you are booking all four evenings, for you and your birth partner.
THE COURSE
Four Tuesday Evenings
6:30–8:30pm, one fixed block
VENUE
Little Wild Patch
Glossop Market Hall, 2 Market Arcade, SK13 8AP
GROUP SIZE
Just 8 couples
Small and personal
THE COST
£185 per couple
Covers both of you, all four evenings
Each course is limited to eight couples, so places fill quickly - booking early gives you the pick of the dates.
NOT READY TO BOOK?
Not ready to book just yet?
That's completely okay - this is a big decision, and you don't have to make it today. Start with my free birth preferences guide, a midwife's guide and template to help you feel more prepared, whatever you decide.
