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Lamaze is the most trusted birth education program in the world. We are so excited to have you here and to be part of your pregnancy, birth and parenting journey.
***Our goal is simple; we want all parents to feel confident, supported and powerful.***
We want parents to feel confident asking questions and making informed decisions, giving them the ability to comfortably take control of their journey. We provide information parents need, to better understand and make decisions throughout their pregnancy.

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Lamaze provides a resource parents can use to empower themselves, to help them understand the choices they have in pregnancy, childbirth and parenting. Lamaze inspires couples to experience birth with knowledge and confidence.
Everyone’s journey from pregnancy through birth to parenthood is unique – and by its nature is transformative! Lamaze serves as a trusted guide along the way with all of our recommendations firmly grounded in the latest research.
We welcome and respect all individuals and families from every corner of the world.

Why Take a Lamaze Class

Lamaze is for everyone.

Lamaze provides a resource parents can use to empower themselves, to help them understand the choices they have in pregnancy, childbirth and parenting. Lamaze inspires couples to experience birth with knowledge and confidence. Everyone’s journey from pregnancy through birth to parenthood is unique – and by its nature is transformative! Lamaze serves as a trusted guide along the way with all of our recommendations firmly grounded in the latest research. We welcome and respect all individuals and families from every corner of the world.

Our True **Passion**.

Lamaze Australia is committed to providing support, guidance and personalised services to all, to make your birthing experience as positive as possible. The **Six Healthy Birth Practices** are based on the latest research, and serve as the foundation of Lamaze childbirth education. We firmly believe that everyone benefits from an informed pregnancy and birth.
*This isn’t just our profession, but our true* ***passion.***

Begin Your Journey…..

About Lamaze

“The class was so informative, full of activities. We felt supported and guided through all the information, it should be on everyone’s list of things to do before having a baby!” Alec & Lucy, Victoria

With much of Australia at the moment under a lockdown of some sort and hospital prenatal classes on hold you may feel that it is hard to find a way to undertake a childbirth education class. Lamaze Australia can help you with this through two ways;

When you're relaxed, your body more readily produces hormones, such as oxytocin and endorphins. These help your labour progress and help you to cope better physically and mentally. This means you'll have more energy, and your baby may also cope bette

😴 Recognising Baby Tired Signs! 💤

Getting your newborn baby to sleep can at times be challenging, and is much more difficult if your baby becomes overtired. A newborn can go from tired to over-tired in an incredibly short time - missing the tired

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A research paper publish by Elsevier in October last year has examined midwives experiences of using the Mindfetalness when taking wjth pregnant women in Sweden about fetal movements.

"Information given to pregnant women about fetal movements

Baby Sleep 😴 💤

Baby sleep is a topic that everyone has an opinion on, they will give you advice (if you want it or not) and strangers may even ask you if your baby is good and is sleeping through the night.

We are no experts on what works for al

Traditional postpartum meals often include warming bone broths and easy to digest galactagogues like fennel. This is a time to consider being gentle and easy on your digestive system. It’s also a time of rest and recovery so dieting is not a gr

X is for eXpectations

As parents we all have expectations on what parenting our children is going to look like. Whether they are views that we personally have, views from families and friends about how we will raise our children and then societal e

Today’s postpartum tip comes from Bluey. If you haven’t seen Bluey and experienced their little reminders for us parents then this is a great introduction.

We hope this brings a smile to your face like it did to ours. Let us know which

Birthmarks

There are various types of birthmarks some which fade and some which don’t. Following is a summary of some birthmarks and what they look like.

💜 Mongolian Spots
These are blue marks that aren’t raised and are found on lower

So Lamaze isn’t just breathing exercises but what are some good breathing exercises for birth?

If I you’ve watched a birth or been present at one you probably would have noticed that the birthing person utilizes breath instinctively and

Who do you want at your birth?

One of the Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices is to bring a support person. BUT WHO?!

In an ideal world there wouldn’t be any restrictions on how many people you have at your birth. Unfortunately lately there have b

What is Shared Care?

This is one of those terms which can be confusing when navigating the medical care for pregnancy and postpartum. Shared Care is when rather than having all your visits at your hospital you are able to have most of your visits w

W is for Working!

Returning to work after the arrival of a baby in your family life is a big deal for everyone! Whether baby is with another parent, a family member/friend or at childcare the change in routine is a shift that everyone has to adjust

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Lamaze Australia acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders - past, present and emerging.

Lamaze Australia also recognises the traditional birthing wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the importance of reinstating birthing on country.

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