01. Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy
Everything you need to know to enjoy a happy, healthy pregnancy.
LIFETIME ACCESS
Learn at your own pace, in your own time, for as long as you want.
About the Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy Course
Designed to educate and support you and your developing baby – both physically and emotionally through your entire pregnancy.
What will I learn?
Enjoy pregnancy education, instructor-led fitness classes, labour and birth preparation and more.
Other languages: to assist people from multicultural communities the video content within this course is also delivered in separate modules with Arabic, Mandarin and Vietnamese subtitles.
Hearing impaired: the video content within this course is also delivered in a separate module with English subtitles for the hearing impaired.
- Your options and choices for antenatal care.
- Understand the changes happening to you and your baby.
- How to provide the best possible environment for your developing baby through nutrition, exercise and emotional wellbeing.
- Understand potential side effects or complications and how to manage them.
- How to prepare physically and emotionally for labour, birth and parenthood.
- Special guide just for Dads.
- Hear real parents sharing their experience of pregnancy.
Course Content
Click on the modules below to find out what you'll learn at each stage of the course.
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Module 1
Antenatal Care
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Lesson 1
Early Conception: Symptoms of Your First Trimester -
Lesson 2
Your First Appointment -
Lesson 3
Choices for Care During Pregnancy -
Lesson 4
Choosing Where to Give Birth -
Lesson 5
Antenatal Appointments -
Lesson 6
Common Tests During Pregnancy
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Module 2
Pregnancy Stages
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Lesson 1
Changes to Your Body -
Lesson 2
First Trimester Changes -
Lesson 3
Second Trimester Changes -
Lesson 4
Third Trimester Changes -
Lesson 5
Your Developing Baby -
Lesson 6
Your Baby's Growth: Weeks 1-12 -
Lesson 7
Your Baby's Growth: Weeks 13-28 -
Lesson 8
Your Baby's Growth: Weeks 29-40
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Module 3
Nutritional Health
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Lesson 1
Healthy Weight Gain -
Lesson 2
Diet & Nutrition -
Lesson 3
Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements -
Lesson 4
Iron Deficiency
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Module 4
Is it Safe?
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Lesson 1
Foods to Avoid -
Lesson 2
Drug & Alcohol Use in Pregnancy -
Lesson 3
Caffeine Consumption -
Lesson 4
Taking Medication -
Lesson 5
Vaccinations in Pregnancy -
Lesson 6
Sleep Positions in Late Pregnancy
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Module 5
Managing Side Effects
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Lesson 1
Common Side Effects -
Lesson 2
Less Common Side Effects
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Module 6
Pregnancy Complications
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Lesson 1
Bleeding -
Lesson 2
Gestational Diabetes -
Lesson 3
Placenta Previa -
Lesson 4
Pre-eclampsia in Pregnancy -
Lesson 5
Decreased Fetal Movements -
Lesson 6
Pre-mature Birth
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Module 7
Pelvic Health
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Lesson 1
The Impact of Pregnancy on your Posture -
Lesson 2
Why Core Muscle Strength Matters -
Lesson 3
The Effect of other Physiological Changes
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Module 8
Emotional Health
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Lesson 1
Antenatal Anxiety and Depression -
Lesson 2
Emotional Preparation for Parenthood
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Module 9
Exercise
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Lesson 1
Benefits of Exercise -
Lesson 2
Exercise Do's and Don'ts -
Lesson 3
Pelvic Floor Exercises -
Lesson 4
Cardiovascular Exercises -
Lesson 5
Strength Exercises
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Module 10
Preparing for Baby
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Lesson 1
How to Prepare Your Career For a Baby -
Lesson 2
How to Write a Birth Plan -
Lesson 3
Hospital Bag Checklist -
Lesson 4
Childcare -
Lesson 5
Whooping Cough Booster -
Lesson 6
New Parent Groups & Services -
Lesson 7
Tips for Grandparents
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Module 11
Dads Guide
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Lesson 1
Preparing for Fatherhood -
Lesson 2
Dad's Hospital Bag -
Lesson 3
Paternal Depression: Dads Can Get Depression Too
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Module 12
Bonus Resources
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Module 13
Parent Stories: Pregnancy
