Create your birth plan for an Empowered birth
Four Trimesters antenatal classes, online or in person gives you the knowledge and insights to show you how to navigate the local system to get the birth you want
Get the tools, tips and support you need to have:
Empowered Knowledge - Learn the ART and Science of birthing your baby in simplified language.
Confidence in yourself & your birth partner - Your birth partner will be fully involved in the process to learn exactly how they can support you so you can focus on the most important thing, YOURSELF!
Expert Guidance to navigate the Hospital system - Having attended over 1200+ births over the past 17 years, Ginny knows how to help you get the kind of birth YOU DESIRE, while navigating the hospital system or any birth setting.
REAL tools for REAL RESULTS - Be prepared mentally, emotionally and physically with REAL tools that have been proven to support you through an easier, shorter and more relaxed birth.
Nurtured Support - Feel the entire love of the Four Trimesters team to feel confident about what you learn and how to apply it. **The option to connect with our Doula’s for extra love & guidance through your birth experience.
Empowered Choice - You will learn to empower yourself to ask informed questions to ensure you are in control of YOUR own birth experience.
Welcomed into Four Trimesters Parents Circle - Join this amazing supportive group of new and seasoned parents where you will have access to a WhatsApp group chat and FREE meet-ups with the Four Trimesters parents circle community.
Four Trimesters Antenatal Classes...
A woman’s body is innately designed to give birth, however most people believe it will be a difficult and painful experience. This belief is formed through media, third party stories or hollywood films. However, it doesn’t have to be this way and you can actually truly open up to the experience and create the birth you desire with empowered knowledge.
“Most Antenatal classes teach you the WHAT & HOW and it often doesn’t make sense in Singapore. Four Trimesters Antenatal classes takes you deep into the understanding of WHY the knowledge is so important.
At Four Trimesters our “Oxytocin Equation” antenatal classes will empower both the mother and birth partner with the tools necessary to create your birth to be an entirely pleasurable and desired experience. One example is the understanding of how a mother enables oxytocin to go on happy hour, resulting in an easier, shorter, more relaxed and comfortable birth experience, gently welcoming their baby into the world.
“We make sure you have the knowledge on how you can navigate the Singapore birthing world to get the birth YOU want”
In this class, you will learn powerful techniques for relaxation and for preparing the muscles in the body for birth. The knowledge will allow you to make decisions confidently, in the event that complications arise and interventions are suggested in the delivery room.
“You are learning from Doulas & Midwives who actually still attend births.”
You will create a positive mindset for the pregnancy, labor, birth, and parenting.
Preparing for your Empowered birth is simple...
Antenatal Class cost $995 for 3 lessons (8 hours each) , totalling 24 hours.
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Sign up to your preferred choice of dates and fill up your information
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We will contact you within 48 hours of receiving your registration via email/whatsapp to confirm the class availability based on your selection
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Once steps 1-2 are completed, confirmation and class details will be sent to your partner and yourself via whatsapp group chat.
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Frequently Asked Questions
+ Class 1: Mental & Emotional Preparation for Childbirth
Work with your subconscious mind and your emotions towards the birth that you want.
- Learn how to rid of the noise that gets into your way of having an easier, shorter, more relaxed and comfortable birth = less pain /
- Optimise your birth experience by enabling oxytocin to go on happy hour
- Learn how to engage your subconscious mind and use quantum physics to work through your fears and transform them into a force for good.
- Open Focus Pregnancy & Childbirth Relaxation
+ Class 2: Preparing your Body for Birthing
Having a baby pass through the pelvis is like putting a key through the keyhole. Learn what you can do to create space within the mother’s body for this baby during pregnancy and optimise baby’s innate ability to rotate through the pelvis to birth into being.
- Breathing into the Heart and Relaxation Techniques
- Optimal Maternal Positioning™
+ Class 3: Writing your Birth Plan
Make informed choices about your childbirth options to optimize the birth experience regardless of the outcome. Bridge the gap between what you read, what you understand, and how to apply the knowledge learned.
- Writing your Birth Plan
- Understanding the benefits and risks of common medical routine procedures to make an informed and empowered choice
- Communicating your Birth Plan to your Healthcare Providers to ensure you have the support and birth experience you deserve.
+ Class 4: Labor & Birth
Integrate prior learning and incorporate it into labour and birth. Equip yourself and your birth partner with strategies to handle the progression of labour.
- How labour starts and the stages of labour
- When to go to the hospital and what to expect
- Comfort measures to cope with labour for both you and your birth partner in a progressive labour
- Optimal Maternal Positioning™ techniques used to enable labour to progress if it slows down or stalls, or to use in a complicated labour
+ Class 5: Breastfeeding
Understand the art and science of breastfeeding.
- Introduction to your Baby Care Plan
- Understand your baby’s needs in the first hour after birth
- Learn about the physical changes you will experience in the days after the birth
- Breastfeeding – the benefits for you and your child
- The “how to” practical “know how” of how to breast-feed in the first few weeks
+ Class 6: The Fourth Trimester
Learn how to survive the first 6 weeks better by understanding baby’s needs and communication.
Changes within your relationship & Parenting Styles
- Understanding Stages of Development
- Baby Zones in a 24 hour period
Ready Zone: Eating, Interacting with your Baby
- Resting Zone: Light & Deep Sleep
- Crying Zone: In need of soothing
Baby Care
Newborn Care
- Baby Wearing
- Your Baby Care Plan
+ Additional Infomation
1) Materials
- Four Trimesters ‘Oxytocin Equation’ antenatal class workbook
- Four Trimesters ‘Fourth Trimester’ workbook
- Pens and easy reference information sheets
2) Weekly Whatsapp
WhatsApp group chats will be created where participants will receive a summary of what we covered in each class and links and resources for further reading.
We also encourage open communication and discussions in the WhatsApp group chats.
3) Online Antenatal Classes You get access to our online Antenatal Classes to the month of your EDD at no additional course so you can review and revise even after you have completed the classes.
4) Refreshments
We will serve home-baked cakes, fresh fruit, sandwiches and beverages. Should you have any food restrictions, kindly prepare your own snacks.
+ Minimum booking requirement
In-person antenatal classes will start with a minimum of 4 couples and a maximum of 10 couples in a class, with 1m social distancing measures in place between each couple. There is also an option to attend antenatal classes virtually.
+ Upcoming Class Dates
Every class is limited to 10 couples and you have an option of attending 3 x 8 hours sessions on Saturdays, 9am-5pm.
- Saturday’s and Sunday’s, 9-5pm: 1st,2nd & 8th June 2024 | Taught by Sufen Paphassarang & Ong Hui Tze @1 Commonwealth Lane #09-08 Singapore 149544
+ When is a good time to start attending antenatal classes?
In your second trimester to early third trimester is ideal.
+ Who are the facilitators of the Antenatal Group Classes?
Doula Sufen Paphassarang teaches class 1-4 and Postpartum Doula Ong Hui Tze teaches class 5-6 as Doula Trainer Ginny Phang-Davey goes on maternity leave starting 1 May 2022.
+ What if there isn’t enough to start a class series of my choice of dates?
We will email you directly to inform you at least 2 weeks before the start of the first class, and offer you other options. If none of the alternative options fit your schedule, we will refund you the fees you have paid for the antenatal classes.
+ What if I miss a class?
For all classes, you have the option of attending the classes in-person or virtually. Should you miss a class because you are unwell or traveling or serving SHN, you can choose one of the following:
- Make-up class with the online antenatal curriculum
- top-up the difference for a private class $180 (up to a total of 2 hours, every subsequent hour will be charged at $75).
+ How many people are in the class?
We start with a minimum of 4 couples and a maximum of 10 couples.
+ What if I give birth before I finish the classes? Or is it possible to get a refund after I book classes?
Sorry, We do not offer refunds for the group classes.
Fees paid are non-refundable and non-transferable.