What antenatal services are available?

Access antenatal service resources, aimed at preparing expectant parents for labor, birth, and early parenthood.

What are antenatal services?

There are a number of different antenatal services available including antenatal classes or birth education and they come in various forms, but all have the same aim: to help prepare you for labour, birth and early parenthood.

Most maternity hospitals provide birth education classes as well as private classes and online courses, depending on your preference as well as location you may find one class suits you more than another.

Regardless of which type of class you attend, always check the teacher has been properly trained.

Find suitable antenatal and maternity services below:

To find out the latest on these services as well as all maternity services go to your State or Territory health department website:

New Zealand: Ministry of Health

UK: NCT courses