Baby and You Antenatal Programme - online

Congratulations on your pregnancy, and welcome to Parents Centre Aotearoa!  This is an incredible time, as you embark on your parenting journey.

Parents Centre antenatal programmes are delivered by qualified educators who hold an annual practicing certificate.  We ensure that the classes provide you with evidence-based information to help you make decisions.  They are carried out in a manner that is interactive, engaging, and fun.

Topics include

• Brief overview of pregnancy topics
• Choices in childbirth
• Your labour journey
• Relaxation, management & coping strategies
• Support person/Partner’s role
• Feeding your baby
• Transition to parenthood
• Responsive parenting
• Practical parenting

Baby Sign Online Webinar

Waving.. Kisses... Pointing... Clapping... these are all ways babies and toddlers can communicate using gestures. To maximise this exciting development phase, teach your little one key signs which can help them communicate earlier and more easily.  

Signing can also help babies and toddlers reduce frustration, express their needs and wants, develop key communication skills and have lots of fun too!

This is an introductory session to 'Signing with your Little One' and is a great opportunity to help get you started.

It is ideal for parents with babies and toddlers who are still learning to speak.

This online and interactive class hosted by Sign & Rhyme will cover:

• How to effectively sign with your Little One
• The benefits for your child and your family
• Tips on how to build signing into your day
• Signing with books and songs
• Recommended signs to start with

This session is scheduled for 7:30pm and will take a maximum of 1.5 hours which includes time for questions and answers at the end.  As signing is a great family activity, other parents/caregivers in the same household are welcome to join you - they can also hear first hand what signing can offer your family, see clips of little ones signing and learn some signs to use with your little one.

This session is run by Kirsty from Sign & Rhyme

First Aid for Babies and Young Children

There is 1.5 to 2 hours of content including Q&A and pricing includes 2x people attending.

These courses are facilitated Little Beat First Aid and taught by paediatric nurses. 

In this course

• Infant and Child CPR
• Choking
• Common incidents such as: burns, head injuries, fevers, febrile seizures and respiratory distress.

Please note: These first aid sessions are for empowering parents and family and due to the time and nature of the session it is not appropriate for those needing workplace first aid certification.

Let's get munching

This workshop is offered to parents with babies aged between 4-7 months age and is run by a registered nutritionist.

These 1.5hr session provides parents and carers with the latest evidence-based nutrition information according to the appropriate age and stages of infant development.  This is an interactive session with a Q&A at the end.

Topics include - when, what and how to start complimentary solids, appropriate textures, and variety of solids to offer your infant, nutritional requirements, allergies and intolerances. This is an opportunity for parents to ask nutrition related questions in a friendly yet professional forum.

Online Baby and You Postnatal: Nourishing Baby

Our postnatal programmes follows on from antenatal classes and offer sound tips and strategies as you begin your journey into parenthood.  It is ideal for those with babies up to around 12 weeks old. 

This session will start with whakawhanaungatanga/relationship building and move onto nourishing your baby.  This will include infant feeding content such as how to tell baby is getting enough, sterilising & storage, paced bottle feeding, challenges and support available. 

Online Baby and You Postnatal: Baby Sleep - Te moe o te pēpi

Our postnatal programmes follows on from antenatal classes and offer sound tips and strategies as you begin your journey into parenthood.  It is ideal for those with babies up to around 12 weeks old. 

Te moe o te pēpi – baby sleep.  Everyone is different and every experience is different.  We will look at sleep cycles and the biological norms of infant sleep, as well as safe sleep.  Ideas for settling babies and coping strategies for parents will also be covered.

Online Baby and You Postnatal: Wellbeing for newborn parents & development of pēpi 

Our postnatal programmes follows on from antenatal classes and offer sound tips and strategies as you begin your journey into parenthood.  It is ideal for those with babies up to around 12 weeks old. 

All about you – postnatal emotions and wellbeing for newborn parents.  Developmental highlights for pēpi, including infant brain development.