Prenatal Courses in The Hague

Do you want to consciously give birth with knowledge and confidence, from your control and inner knowing?

Proper preparation for childbirth involves mental, physical, and practical knowledge and insight. Birth is not only a physical process, but also a deeply mental and emotional experience – where trust, calm, and a sense of control are essential.

By gaining insight into the physiological process, you'll better understand what's happening in your body. This allows you to positively influence the birth and create the right conditions to make it smoother and less painful.

Practical knowledge and tools will equip you to actively respond to whatever unfolds – regardless of how the birth progresses. With the right mindset, you’ll learn to positively influence your experience of labor. You’ll recognize key signals, navigate situations with confidence, and consciously follow your own choices and needs.

This unique combination of knowledge, body awareness, and practical skills creates the perfect conditions for a conscious, powerful, and personalized birth. Our comprehensive and insightful pregnancy courses—developed from years of midwifery and doula experience and expertise—offer you complete preparation for childbirth in every aspect—practical, physical, and mental. With a comprehensive, unique handout and valuable extras, you can also continue practicing at home, deepen your knowledge, and consciously contribute to a positive birthing experience.

View our course offering below – tailored to your wishes, needs and available time.

PRENATAL COURSES THE HAGUE

Do you want to give birth consciously with knowledge and confidence, from your sence of control and inner knowing.

It's important that you're well prepared. This will give you insight into the birthing process and help you figure out what works best for you, so you can positively influence the birth and create the right conditions to make it smoother and less painful, regardless of how it goes.

Our unique and comprehensive pregnancy courses are developed with midwifery and doula expertise, and offer knowledge, insights, and useful tools to support optimal physical, mental, and practical preparation for childbirth.

View our course offering below – tailored to your wishes, needs and available time.

Prenatal Courses The Hague

Knowledge-intensive, available in Dutch or English.
Participate from 25 weeks.
For you and your (birthing) partner together. 

1 day Birth Prep The Hague

>Essential >Practical >Compact
Proper preparation and expectations

  • Participate from 25 weeks
  • 2,5-hour knowledge-intensive, hands-on pregnancy course
  • For you both: €110

Online sign up and payment via Eversport

  • Possibly (partly) reimbursed by health insurer!

  • Select the desired dates for the 1 day Birth Prep pregnancy course at BOOK HERE.

  • Create an account via Eversport and pay for your purchase online. With the Eversport App you have direct insight into your purchase and reservation.

We're committed to giving you and your little one the best possible start. That starts with thorough, realistic preparation, based on clear knowledge and practical tools. This will help you approach birth with more confidence and peace of mind, reduce the risk of unexpected situations, and strengthen your teamwork during birth.

Whether you're participating for the first time or want to gain or refresh your knowledge, you'll receive practical tools for a confident and well-prepared birth.

In this pregnancy course, we'll discuss what you can expect during the different stages of birth—physically, mentally, and practically. We'll teach you supportive tools and various breathing and birthing techniques that will help you move actively, consciously, and attuned to the birthing process.

Includes exclusive digital handout and supporting audio.

During this prenatal course you will learn;

  • Practical information en explanation about the different stages of childbirth.
  • What the hormones and the nervous system do.
  • Movements en birthing positions to facilitate the dilation and pushing phase.
  • Massage- en counter pressure techniques to promote relaxation and relief
  • Breathing techniques to cope with your contractions, relax between contractions and how to go along with the pushing contractions.
  • How you (birth) Partner can guide you as best as possible, making it easier for you to relax and positively influence the birthing process.
  • The program The golden hour: the first hours after birth with your baby.
  • There is room for your questions regarding childbirth.

2-1 week Birth Prep The Hague

>Concrete >Compact >Complete
Powerful foundation of preparation, confidence and inner certainty

  • Participate from 25 weeks
  • 4-hour knowledge-intensive, hands-on pregnancy course
  • For you together €175

Online sign up and payment via Eversport

  • Possibly (partly) reimbursed by health insurer!
  • Select your desired dates for the 2-1 week Birth Prep pregnancy course at BOOK HERE.
  • Create an account via Eversport and pay for your purchase online. With the Eversport App you have direct insight into your purchase and reservation.

In the 2-1 week Birth Prep course, you'll gain all the essential knowledge and effective tools to optimally prepare for birth. This comprehensive course is informative, supportive, and offers additional depth on important topics such as mindset, medical interventions, and pain management. 

When you understand what's happening in your body during birth, you build a solid foundation of trust that will carry you through the entire process. You'll know what to expect, what choices you can make, and how you can actively contribute to your own birth.

Whether you're pregnant for the first time or want to gain or strengthen your knowledge, you'll receive practical tools for a confident, conscious, and well-prepared birth.

Being well-prepared—with knowledge, realistic expectations, and insight into what works best for you—will help you experience more calmness, confidence, and acceptance, regardless of how thing progress or the setting. This allows you to truly approach birth together as a team, with depth, connection, and strong alignment.

Teamwork makes the dream work!

Includes an exclusive digital handout with targeted breathing and movement techniques, visualizations, and supporting audio.

During this prenatal course you will learn; 

  • Practical information en explanation about the different phases of birth (including what the hormones, the nervous system and the uterus do).
  • Movements en birthing positions that you can apply to ease and soften the different stages of labour.
  • Massage and pressure techniques to promote relaxation and relief
  • How to cultivate relaxation, inner calm en surrendering to support your inner knowing to approach your birth with confidence, and empowerment.
  • Create a positive mindset and learn how to confidently cope with fear, stress and labour pain (Mindful Birth). 
  • Understanding labour pain, ways to cope with it, and available medicinal options.
  • Breathing techniques to cope with your contractions, relax between contractions and how to cope with the pushing contractions, including specific hypnobirthing breathing tools.
  • Your Partner is indispensable and plays an important role in positively influencing the birthing process and supporting you as best as possible.
  • The program The golden hour: the first hours after the birth of your baby.
  • There is room for all your questions regarding childbirth.

2 week Birth Prep The Hague

>Extensive >Deepening >Connecting
Actively involved, fully prepared and confident

  • Participate from 25 weeks
  • 2 x 2,5 hours knowledge-intensive, hands-on pregnancy course
  • For you together: €195

Online sign up and payment via Eversport

  • Possibly (partly) reimbursed by health insurer!
  • Select the desired dates for the 2 week Birth Prep pregnancy course at BOOK HERE.
  • Create an account via Eversport and pay for your purchase online. With the Eversport App you have direct insight into your purchase and reservation.

In this 2-week birth prep, we'll optimally prepare you for birth, with extra depth in important topics such as specific breathing techniques, what to do if labour progresses differently, medical interventions, and pain management. This way, you'll gain all the essential knowledge, the right and effective tools, and in-depth guidance—so you not only know what can happen, but above all how to be able to actively and consciously respond.

When you understand what's happening in your body during birth, you build a strong foundation of trust that will carry you through the entire process. You learn to recognize what you need in each phase, and how to actively, consciously meet those needs.

Whether you're pregnant for the first time or want to gain or strengthen your knowledge, you'll receive clear and concrete tools for a confident and well-prepared birth.

Well prepared—with knowledge, realistic expectations, and insight into what works best for you—you'll experience more calmness, confidence, and acceptance, regardless of the setting or how things progress. This allows you to truly embrace birth together, as a team, with connection, depth, and a solid foundation to fall back on.

Teamwork makes the dream work!

Includes an exclusive digital handout with targeted breathing and movement techniques, visualizations, and supporting audio.

  During this prenatal course you will learn; 

  • Practical information en explanation about the different phases of birth (including what the hormones, the nervous system and the uterus do).
  • Movements en birthing positions that you can apply to ease and soften the different stages of labour.
  • Massage and pressure techniques to promote relaxation and relief
  • How to cultivate relaxation, inner calm en surrendering to support your inner knowing to approach your birth with confidence, and empowerment.
  • Creating freedom of movement through pain-relieving transitions (Spinning Babies®).
  • Create a positive mindset and learn how to confidently cope with fear, stress and labour pain (Mindful Birth). 
  • Understanding labour pain, ways to cope with it, and available medicinal options.
  • Breathing techniques to cope with your contractions, relax between contractions and how to cope with the pushing contractions, including specific hypnobirthing breathing tools.
  • Your Partner is indispensable and plays an important role in positively influencing the birthing process and supporting you as best as possible.
  • The program The golden hour: the first hours after birth with your baby.
  • There is room for all your questions regarding childbirth.

4 weeks Birth Prep The Hague

>Complete >Powerful >Transforming
Awaken your inner strength and step confidently into your surrender

  • Participate from 25 weeks
  • 4 x 2,5 hours knowledge-intensive, hands-on pregnancy course
  • For you both: €375

Online sign up and payment via Eversport

  • Possibly (partly) reimbursed by health insurer!
  • Select the desired dates for the 4 week Birth Prep pregnancy course at BOOK HERE.
  • Create an account via Eversport and pay for your purchase online. With the Eversport App you have direct insight into your purchase and reservation.

With this 4-week birth prep program, we combine all our experience and expertise to offer you the most complete, realistic, and powerful preparation. We create optimal conditions that support labor and help it proceed with less tension and pain, regardless of the setting or course of events. You will feel empowered, well-prepared, and confident for the birth of your baby.

We offer the in-depth guidance needed to optimally navigate the entire process. This way, you'll gain not only knowledge and support, but also a wealth of insight and confidence to truly embrace birth as a team—so you not only know what can happen, but above all how to be able to actively and consciously respond.

In addition, we teach you specific and effective tools and techniques from Spinning Babies®, Mindfull birthing en hypnobirthing. We'll delve into realistic expectations, how to stay in your sence of control, and what can happen during medical interventions. We'll conclude the course with practical preparation for the first hours after birth and the postpartum period, so you can approach this special phase with confidence and peace of mind. 

Together, you'll go through all aspects of the birthing process, with time to process the information, practice, and ask questions. By preparing well, you're choosing the best possible start—for yourself, your baby, and your journey as new parents.

This powerful and empowering 4-week Birth Prep course is specially designed with all our knowledge, experience, and midwifery expertise to fully prepare you—mentally, physically, and practically—for a conscious, powerful, and connected birth.

Includes many unique extras: digital handout, visualizations, affirmations, specific and effective movement and breathing techniques, mindset exercises, and supporting audio.

During this prenatal course you will learn; 

  • Practical information en explanation about the different phases of childbirth (including what the hormones, the nervous system and the uterus do).
  • Knowledge reduces fear/uncertainty and realistic expectations give you the opportunity to regie to keep your sence of controle.
  • How to cultivate relaxation, inner calm en surrendering to support your inner knowing to approach your birth with confidence, and empowerment.
  • Movements en birthing positions to ease and soften the stages of labour. There are several effective interventions possible and you will experience what suits you best.
  • Massage- en counter pressure techniques to promote relaxation and provide relief.
  • Breathing techniques to cope with your contractions, relax between contractions and how to go along with the pushing contractions.
  • Specific and fine Hypnobirthing tools such as breathing, visualizations and affirmations.
  • Spinning Babies® method: to promote the optimal position of your baby both before and during birth, which increases the chance of a smoother, active, less painful birth.
  • Mindful Birth techniques: so that you can positively influence the birth with the right coping strategy and deal with stress, anxiety and labor pain with more confidence.
  • Understanding labour pain, ways to cope with it, medicinal options, and possible interventions
  • BRM® (for alignment and body awareness).
  • How you (birth) Partner can support and motivate you as optimally as possible and thus positively influence the course of the delivery.
  • When things go differently: understanding what can happen and knowing which medical decisions are important for you.
  • The birth of your child, The golden hour.
  • About the maternity period We provide information and tips to help you prepare for this as well as possible.
  • There is room for all your questions en knowledge to collect regarding labor and birth.

Post Prep The Hague

Be well prepared after your delivery

  • Participate from 25 weeks of pregnancy until 8 weeks after delivery
  • 2 hour postpartum course
  • Just for you: €75

Online sign up and payment via Eversport

  • Possibly (partly) reimbursed by health insurer!
  • Select the desired dates for the Postpartum Prep course at BOOK HERE.
  • Create an account via Eversport and pay for your purchase online. With the Eversport App you have direct insight into your purchase and reservation.

What can you expect in the 4th trimester?

The postpartum period brings hormonal, emotional and physical changes that have a huge impact on how you feel as a new mother.

Perhaps even more importantly, postnatal recovery after childbirth is often underestimated and not always addressed properly, and can even cause problems later in life!

In this course, which you will follow together with other (future) mothers, we share knowledge about everything that is important. We offer useful information, inspiration, supplementation and many tools, all based on the wisdom of Ayurveda.

It is a practical course to make the transition to and into motherhood as smooth as possible. So that you can have a nice time and give yourself and your child a good start, because that is what every mother deserves!

The course is taught in English and is open to any pregnant or recently delivered mother. 

During this postpartum prep we discuss; 

  • Fundamental principles, intentions and importance of POSTNATAL CARE (with an Ayurvedic perspective).

  • How to get through the first few days with your baby produce en take care of.

  • Tools, Tips en methods to make the first few weeks as pleasant and calm as possible.

  • A deeper knowledge about you hormones and how you can do this to support en produce.

  • What nutrition can do for you, including supporting recipes.

  • Breathing exercises that promote peace and relaxation.

  • What to do in case of diastasis.

  • How to learn to trust your maternal instinct.

The benefits of knowledge about the postpartum period;

  • Better dealing with stress. and reduction of fatigue.
  • Take time for a good physical en emotional recovery and preventing possible future complications.
  • Better self care, so that you can take care of your child and a relax experience time together as a new family.