Build Your Knowledge and Confidence for Birth & Beyond
Welcome to The Birth Ready Company!
We are Carla & Emma - Doulas, Hypnobirthing teachers, and total Birth Nerds!
Our passion for informing families to have empowered and positive birthing experiences informs everything we do. Our carefully curated, fully comprehensive course will arm you with all the information you need to get Birth Ready!
Whether this is your first pregnancy or your fifth, there's always more to learn and always room for self-confidence in birth to grow.
On completion of our course, both you and your birth partner will feel confident and empowered as you embark on your birth journey together. You will possess all the key skills and information you could need.
Our 5 week, in-person course covers...
Last Weeks of Pregnancy
Early Labour Signs
Stages of labour
Early Days of Baby
Safe Sleep & Travel
Top Tips for Newborns
Releasing Fear
Building Trust
Managing Pain
Induction & Interventions
Biomechanics of Birth
Positioning & Movement
Physical Support
Infant Feeding
The Fourth Trimester
Baby Wearing
PLUS Optional Hypnobirthing Add-On Session Covering:
Guided Meditation & Visualisation
Breathing Techniques
Importance of Relaxation
Anchoring & Affirmations
How Your Hormones Benefit You in Labour
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"Both Carla and Emma have so much insight and knowledge to share. As someone who hasn't been on this journey before, it's been reassuring to have that space to ask questions and explore different subjects around labour and birth. Your warmth and enthusiasm was inspiring and made us really glad we chose your course. Having plenty of resources to look into outside of the course was really helpful."
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"I'm really glad we did this course. It was really informative and inspiring and I'm very grateful to Carla and Emma for all their advice and encouragement. It was also a great opportunity to meet people on the same journey.
Thank you!"
Sliding Scale Pricing
Sliding scale pricing helps make sure our course is accessible to everyone, whilst still recognising and honouring the time, energy, resources, and commitment it takes for us to offer it.
We find most couples choose our Band 2 price option at £200, however there are lower and higher options which enable you to choose the option that best suits your financial situation and means. Having these options means those who are able to contribute more can do so, and in turn are helping to make the course accessible to those who need to pay less.
We also offer the option of fully subsidised places for those families who are low income and otherwise unable to access antenatal education. Please contact us to enquire about this.
There is no need to explain your choice - simply choose the option that best fits your situation when booking. By choosing the option that best reflects your financial situation, you are helping our community remain inclusive and supportive, and enabling us to provide our courses to those who may otherwise be unable to access them.
Please see below our guide to the pricing options we offer and some guidance for how to determine which band is right for you.
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About Us
Hi I’m Carla and I have a job I love!
I have 2 children, 1 grandson, a dog and a long suffering husband who’s used to holding the fort (rather well I must say) while I disappear for days/nights or just a few hours to support parents in one way or another.
In my doula journey I have witnessed the remarkable strength of women, and partners who gain in confidence to calmly provide support to those they love. Pregnancy, birth and a baby’s arrival can all be completely unknown territory to new parents and the job of a doula is to teach skills, provide knowledge and help everyone to trust their instincts above all else. It’s my passion… can you tell?
I’ve met the most amazing, warm and wonderful people clients and doulas, midwives and alternative practitioners… setting off on a days work is always an exciting and happy day.
I love seeing the boost in confidence antenatal sessions provide and can't wait to bring this to more local families
Hi, I'm Emma and I'm so lucky to have a job that truly feels like soul work!
I'm mum to two wonderful boys, and married to my amazing husband. I couldn't do this job without the support of my family who are so very understanding when it's time for me to whizz off to support a new family at its very beginning.
Through birth work and breastfeeding support I have met and walked alongside so many incredible women and their families. The strength and beauty of the female body in labour is something that will always be awe inspiring to me, and something that feels like the greatest honour to witness and be trusted to support.
Empowering new families through pregnancy, birth, and into postpartum is such passion work for me; and a job which feels like it truly makes a difference!
Understanding your rights and options in labour is so important and, alongside learning skills to prepare for labour and birth, I believe sets the foundations for a positive and empowered experience. Knowing you have ownership over your experience, and having the power of choice can be the difference between a traumatic experience and a positive one
FAQ
Why Choose Us?
At The Birth Ready Company we believe in you and your ability to birth your baby. We are passionate about supporting and empowering you to shape your own birth journey and have ownership over the whole process as you transition to parenthood.
Our information, tools, and skills will arm you with everything you need to have a positive birth experience.
We have a wealth of experience supporting parents through pregnancy, labour & birth, and postpartum, so when you book with us you can rest assured you'll receive evidence-based information, tools, and skills which we not only teach to our Doula clients, but also use ourselves in practice while supporting birth.
What does the course cover?
Our fully comprehensive course will prepare you from the last weeks of pregnancy through to the early weeks of parenthood, covering topics including;
- Releasing fear & building trust
- Early signs of labour
- Pain management
- Induction and interventions
- Biomechanics of birth
- Positioning and movement
- Infant feeding
And so much more!
You can read more about the course content in our Course Content section
How much does it cost?
We offer sliding scale pricing which means you choose the option which best suits your financial situation. For those in financial hardship we may be able to offer a fully subsidised place - please contact us for more information.
You can read more about our Sliding Scale Pricing here.
There is an optional add-on for a one-off Hypnobirthing session which can be added when you book your course, this costs an additional £50
How big are the classes?
We have a maximum class size of five couples, making a total of ten people, plus the two of us. This enables you to meet and connect with other local couples with similar due dates, but keeps the sessions small enough that we can all get to know one another and there is plenty of time for discussion and questions without feeling overwhelmed.
If for any reason the course you book has no other couples booked on, we will contact you to offer a choice of a one-to-one course, or rebooking on an alternative course to enable you to meet others (we know this is an important part of booking an in-person class).
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