290 Educators providing Antenatal courses

baby week leeds

Baby Week is a registered charity and aims to bring sectors and services together to promote the best start in life. The initiative was inspired by Brazil’s ‘Semana do Bebe’ (UNICEF 2010), following a visit to the country by Churchill Fellow Lucy Potter. Leeds hosted the first English speaking Baby Week in 2016 and since has had interest from several other towns and cities wanting to host their own celebrations. Since Baby Week became a registered charity, Bradford, Hull, Wakefield, Cheshire and Merseyside have organised their very own take on Baby Week Leeds. In 2019, we were nominated and came in second place as charity of the year by The British Journal of Midwifery Practice Awards (BJM). Over the past six years, hundreds of citywide events have been held with thousands of attendees including parents, expectant parents, practitioners and professionals , and of course babies! Each city hosting the week has the opportunity to celebrate and bring together the work of maternity and early years services, helping to raise awareness of the critical developmental growth stages and a real focus on the 1001 days in order to give every baby the best start in life. Baby Week is organised with Child Friendly Leeds with partnerships involving NHS Leeds, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds Dads, Public Health, Mumbler, and many more partners across all sectors. To mark the 5 years in 2020, Baby Week Leeds focussed on five of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as a focus over the next few years: Good Health and Wellbeing, Reduced Inequality, Sustainable cities and communities, Climate action and No Poverty.

the collective arts group

creating wellbeing, creative activity, expressive arts workshops, employee wellbeing, evidence, transformation, stress, well-being, art, art-making, The creative wellbeing project, positive psychology, arts for wellbeing, art therapy, mental health

institute of health visiting

Promoting excellence in health visiting practice to benefit all children, families and communitiesWe work closely with our members, the public health workforce and wider community to develop and implement a wide range of policy and projects to educate and empower individuals, effect change and celebrate excellence.

the fatherhood institute

The Fatherhood Institute is the UK’s fatherhood think-and-do-tank. We are a registered charity (number 1075104) and we: Collate, publish and mobilise international research on fathers and their impact on children and mothers Report on and develop approaches to engaging with fathers mainly in the health, education and family sectors Help shape national and local policy to ensure a father-inclusive approach Inject research evidence on fathers, fatherhood and co-parenting into national debates about parenting and parental roles Lobby for changes in law, policy and practice to dismantle barriers to UK fathers’ care of infants and children Help mothers and fathers in the UK and internationally balance their ‘cash and care’ responsibilities and co-operate productively as a ‘parenting team’ Are the leading provider in the UK (and to an extent internationally) of training, consultancy and publications on father-inclusive practice

the rb project: modern antenatal education, with hypnobirthing at the core

royal surrey hospital - maternity unit

We are a clinically led NHS trust providing joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services. We are also a regional cancer centre and provide many world class services and aspire to deliver more for our patients in the future. Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development.

royal surrey county hospital

We are a clinically led NHS trust providing joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services. We are also a regional cancer centre and provide many world class services and aspire to deliver more for our patients in the future. Our compassionate, caring and friendly colleagues make up our Royal Surrey family and are at the heart of what we do. We all have a passion for learning, continuous improvement and excelling together through innovation, research and development.

bump to beyond your birth

Hi, I’m Bridie, mother of two and a former NHS midwife with over 12 years experience. My passion is helping expectant parents prepare physically and emotionally for their journey ahead. I remove the anxieties of becoming a parent and offer you the advice and support to help you enjoy the journey and turn those anxieties into confidence. My one-to-one online courses complement most standard ‘parent education classes’, going deeper and focusing on key topics like physical and practical care of the newborn. All those questions you wished you’d asked!

mama serene

About Dani….Dani Diosi DipHe, DypHyp MHS is a highly qualified and experienced Antenatal & Childbirth educator, hypnotherapist, Doula and NLP Master Practioner With nearly 20 years experience. Her passion combined with vast experience in all areas makes her uniquely qualified to train hypnobirthing practitioners and teachers and it is her absolute passion to enable as many people as possible to pass on hypnobirthing techniques in a way that highlights their existing skill set. She understands the juggle of running a successful business whilst wanting to support as many pregnant parents through a smooth birth and is creating a ripple effect within the industry to empower more businesses that work within the birthing & pregnancy areas to include hypnobirthing as a way to give you and your clients more empowerment and confidence. She runs regular hypnobirthing instructor training courses both virtually and in person and has trained practitioners in the UK and internationally. You can find more about her courses here. She originally taught for the National Childbirth Trust (NCT) and utilised her own experience as a mother to twins to specialise in multiple birth classes. She subsequently qualified in Natal Hypnotherapy in 2008 and worked very closely with Maggie Howell (Natal Hypnotherapy’s founder and director) teaching the course and training and assessing new practitioners. Dani set up her own hypnobirthing programme in 2015 after qualifying as a hypnotherapist in 2012 and is a recognised Doula with Doula UK and Birth Bliss . She recognises the importance of learning knowledge in a fun, supportive way but also in a way that you can tailor to your strengths. This is the exact reason she has created her hypnobirthing teacher training courses in a way that gives you all the training you need but she also teaches how you can integrate it into an existing business and / or develop your own way of delivery. Being unique and standing out is so important as that’s why your clients will want to work with you. Dani also works with expectant parents co-founder of the successful AllAboutAntenatal programme. She is also a best-selling author of Hypnobirthing-Breathing in Short Pants available on Amazon. Dani’s work has been featured in multiple publications including OK! magazine and The Sunday Mirror. Most importantly, she is wife to her long suffering and extremely patient husband and mum to three teenage girls and three dogs! Her common sense approach is reflected in her home life where she is a firm believer that there’s no such thing as the perfect parent – we can all only do our best!

nurture families

Our Mission Nurture Families empowers families with children, before birth and throughout their early years, by supporting parent-child relationships and advancing quality early education and care to help improve life outcomes for children.