Calm. Informed. Confident Birth.
Midwife-Led Labour & Birth Preparation.
Nest & Cradle offers evidence-based childbirth education designed to help you understand labour, work with your body and baby, navigate the maternity system, and feel confident in your choices.
Led by a Registered Midwife and mother of 3, our workshops provide realistic, supportive birth preparation in a calm and welcoming environment.
Whether it’s your first birth and you need all the info, or a subsequent birth you want to go a little differently - you'll gain practical knowledge and tools that help you approach your birth with confidence.
Labour & Birth Preparation Offerings
Nest with Midwife Nicole
Our intentionally small workshops allow plenty of time for discussion, questions and personalised support.
Held locally in a warm, welcoming environment, these one-day workshops offer comprehensive and realistic birth preparation.
Perfect for:
Expectant parents wanting a thorough, practical and evidence-based birth preparation class.
What we cover:
• How labour works and what to expect
• Practical tools to cope in each stage
• How to work with your body and baby in labour
• Pain relief options and making informed choices
• Partner support techniques
• Navigating the maternity system and your rights in birth
You'll leave with practical skills, helpful resources and a clearer understanding of birth.
Includes:
• Full-day workshop (with light finger food)
• Ticket holder + your birth support person
• Resources and take home goodies
1 day, small group workshop
Nest with Midwife Nicole
Prefer a more personalised experience?
Private 1:1 sessions are available in your home or a local setting.
These sessions include everything covered in the workshop but tailored specifically to your pregnancy, birth preferences and individual questions.
Ideal if you:
• Prefer private learning
• Want personalised birth preparation
• Have specific concerns or questions about birth
Please note, travel costs do apply.
1:1 Private Birth Preparation
Postpartum Offerings
Closing the Bones
A deeply nurturing postpartum ritual to honour and support your transition into motherhood.
Closing the Bones is a traditional postpartum practice used in many cultures around the world to support women after pregnancy and birth. It is a gentle ceremony designed to help the body and mind settle after pregnancy, birth and the profound experience of becoming a mother.
Using gentle massage, warmth and the wrapping of the body with rebozos, the ceremony symbolically and physically supports the body to “close” after the openness of pregnancy and birth.
This can be a powerful moment for mothers to pause, be cared for, and reflect on their birth and early postpartum journey.
What to expect
Your Closing the Bones session is a private, unhurried experience designed to help you rest and feel supported.
The ceremony may include:
• Gentle bodywork and massage followed by herbal bath
• Belly, hip and body wrapping using rebozo
• Warmth and grounding practices
• Time to reflect on your birth and postpartum experience with included birth reflection
4 hr, in-home traditional healing
Birth can be a powerful and complex experience. For some women, it can leave questions, confusion or difficult feelings that are hard to make sense of.
Birth reflection sessions offer a gentle space to talk through your birth story, piece together what happened and feel heard and supported. Available in-home or via teams.