Packed and Prepared
Your Guide to Everything You Need for Birth & Beyond
Preparing for your baby is exciting, but knowing what you actually need – and when you need it – isn’t always straightforward. Packed & Prepared is a practical, midwife-led course designed to help you get organised for birth, your hospital stay and those important first weeks at home. From clothing, nappies and feeding essentials to packing your hospital bag, preparing your home and getting ready to travel with your baby, we’ll help you focus on what really matters.
Course Overview
There can be a lot to think about when preparing for a baby – and an even longer list of things you are told you need to buy.
Packed & Prepared: Guide to Everything You Need for Birth & Beyond has been created to make that preparation simpler.
Led by the NowBaby midwife team in association with ebebek, the course provides straightforward, practical advice about the essentials you are likely to need for labour, hospital and bringing your baby home.
We look at what is useful, what to pack, what to prepare in advance and some of the things that are easily forgotten.The aim isn’t to tell you to buy everything. It’s to help you understand what you are likely to need so you can make informed choices and feel properly prepared
Course Leaders
Packed & Prepared is led by the NowBaby midwife team, combining trusted antenatal education with practical advice for preparing for a new baby. The course has been created in association with ebebek, bringing together NowBaby’s maternity expertise and ebebek’s experience in helping parents prepare for the arrival of their baby.
Leila Zehedi is an experienced midwife, qualified since 2014, with a background across community, antenatal and intrapartum care. She is passionate about providing consistent, personalised and relationship-based support that helps women feel informed, confident and supported throughout pregnancy and birth.
What you will learn
By the end of the course, you’ll have a clearer idea of what you need to prepare for birth and the first few weeks with your baby.
You’ll learn how to:
- Choose the practical essentials for you and your baby
- Prepare and organise your hospital bag
- Know what to pack for your baby
- Think about and prepare your birth plan
- Help your birthing partner get organised
- Prepare your home for your baby’s arrival
- Understand the essentials for travelling safely with your baby
- Avoid some of the commonly forgotten items
- Feel organised and prepared without feeling you need to buy everything
Be prepared
A little preparation can make a big difference.
Packed & Prepared gives you practical advice, useful checklists and trusted midwife guidance so you can spend less time worrying about what you’ve forgotten and more time looking forward to meeting your baby.
Ally
Wonderfully informative and well presented. You clearly love your job and have such a passion for it. Thank you.
LD
A very informative and helpful course. The midwife was friendly and engaging. I’d definitely recommend it to other expectant mums!
Katrina
It was a really good class. Very informative and good to hear. You cover multiple points and explained the pain relief clearly.