Antenatal classes in Crouch End

[ejlk]

Hello, I'm new to the board - due in April - I wondered if anybody knew of any antenatal classes in Crouch End? I've spoken to my local NCT booking secretary and she says no local courses are planned for that time of year. I'm going to attend the ones put on by my local hospital but I'd love to meet other mums living nearby in a more informal environment.

Suzy my darling I've already started. Just fine tuning my birth prep classes, but whilst I'm doing that I know several people who could do with some now.

Hello ladies, thanks for all your useful messages - and the tip off about the catering at the Whittington! For those in the same boat, I ended up booking classes in Highgate with PlusBaby - had a long chat to the course organiser who was lovely. Basically it's 5 weeknight clases for 5 consecutive weeks at at a cost of £200 per couple - they also give lots of post-natal support if you want it e.g. finding local childcare etc. which I think will be really helpful. Lo and behold, on Tuesday this week Haringey NCT then emailed offering me a place on a course in Muswell Hill on Saturday mornings starting in Feb but I was all signed-up with PlusBaby by then - anyway - if that would suit you try giving their booking secretary a call - they might still have places left. Thanks again for all your help.

Hello, for those of you still looking for classes, my friend told me of 2 midwives who run private classes at the Haelan Centre. Think the website is www.birthingmatters.co.uk
Hope this is useful

Don't know if any of you are still looking for an ante-natal course in London, but I'm running a 2-day course in March in Notting Hill. This is not a birth preparation class - it's all about preparing for the emotional challenges of life after birth, which is something that many of my clients say they wish they'd covered in ante-natal classes (btw I have advertised this properly in the classifieds section, so I'm not just being cheeky!)

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Hi
I'm new to mumsnet - due 8th June and live in the Finsbury Park area of North London. Can't get into NCT and have the option of Plusbaby, The Active Birth Centre or North London Antenatal Teachers - somewhere in Tottenham. Has anyone been to or checked out any of these and if so which would you recommend as a good place to meet people in my area?
Thanks a lot!!
ps - is there a due in June thread?

Hi
I'm new to the site! Due in August and also having major probs trying to find antenatal classes in Crouch End. I want to do the classes but also want to meet other mums! Does anybody know if there is a thread for people in N8 or N6? It would be good to chat to some locals while in pursuit of the classes. Can't believe Haringay NCT of all places aren't running any classes in Crouch End. It's mum and baby central!

Re. antenatal classes in Crouch End -

My yoga teacher Julie Tortora runs a great yoga class for pregnant women (as well as a mother-and-baby strength class for after the birth). It's on a few times a week, run from her own lovely & calm home.

A really fulfilling experience - both spiritually (or whatever you want to call it) and physically.

Julie's got a website, at www.lifelongyoga.co.uk/ - her phone number is on the 'contact' bit of it - give her a ring!

Hello, I am due in July and keen to meet up with any mothers to be in the Muswell Hill area. I am new to the neighborhood and know very few people around. Finding ante natal classes around here is a real puzzle but reading this has been helpful!

Hello there, I think I'm continuing a common theme here - I contacted Haringey NCT who run classes in Crouch End, and guess what? Yep, fully booked. I'm not due until December 07, so thought I was being super organised!

Anyway, after reading through your posts I contacted Plus Baby in Highgate. Has anyone attended antenatal classes there and if so, how did you find them/would you recommend them? Also were the people attending local - ie from Mus Hill, Crouch End?

Thanks,
Natalie
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Nat, if you don't get any joy with PlusBaby then you can always try me and the courses that I run. You can email me on lovelymarslady at aol dot com. I'm in Crouch End with the course running in Muswell Hill.

A doula client of mine used PlusBaby and was very happy with it.

Hello! My DS2 is due in 3 weeks' time and we're moving to Crouch End at around the same time (marvellous planning ). Does anyone have any ideas if there are mum and baby and toddler groups around? Anyone else in the same boat?
Really can't wait to move - all of my nesting energy is being completely wasted and I should be sorting out a new house! Hope to see some of you in Crouch End!

Hi, I wish I'd returned to this thread between autumn/winter and now.

I never did get on a longer antenatal class, just a one day one preparing for what to expect in giving birth at the Whittington in March - I was due in April (on 24th). It was very useful, as I was able to make informed decisions about pain relief and to understand a necessary intervention used when it was proposed, and feel ok about it, but a longer course would have been better. My baby was late and I had to be inc

My dp for some reason did receive an email at the end of April about a postnatal course in June via Haringey NCT. I saw it and responded saying yes please. The woman who is running it actually lives in Barnet (East Finchley) and also appears to be the NCT contact for everything which isn't covered. In other words, the NCT is short on volunteers. Her name is Cathy Neale. I start the course tomorrow and will try to mention if I get to chat to her that there's a lot of people looking for antenatal classes in the area - East Finchley isn't that far from Muswell Hill and Crouch End.

A wonderful place to come and meet other new mums or ones with toddlers and small babies, is at the Woodlands Centre on Woodlands Park Road, just east of Green Lanes. It's what I'd consider Harringay, very close to me in Tottenham, but a lot of the women there come from Finsbury Park, Crouch End, Wood Green. On my first visit I had to rush back home, the second week (just gone) I was invited for what turned out to be a regular gathering for lunch in a cafe on Green Lanes.

Perhaps we should organise a Haringey mners meetup some time.

Hi elkidee, Congratulations on the birth of your April baby! Hope you are coping well and getting some sleep! Did you have a boy or a girl?
I've just emailed Cathy Neale, I'm hoping the NCT is a good way to meet local Mums and find out what's going on in the area - I just can't believe there are so few volunteers in Crouch End! I thought it was baby central round there.
I'd definitely be interested in a mnet metup around Haringey - obviously I need to move there first and have this baby, but I am keen...
I know that you can contact people via email from mnet but I don't know how - any ideas?

If anyone is still looking for antenatal classes in or around crouch end then try birthingmatters, they are midwives that run private classes at the haelan centre. My friend did classes with them and thought they were great!!

3flightsofstairs - hope the birth of your baby went well, and you're welcome to email me if you see this at (myusername) @ yahoo dot co dot uk

ejlk, are you still about?

I'm going to antinatal classes in Crouch End in October. Mine will be held in the Union Church in Ferme Park Road. Try this email address [email protected]
for an enquiry. Hope this helps.

Oops just realised how old this thread is. Sorry for my post.

Mrswizz, I'm still keen to make contact with other mumnsnet people in Haringey. Do you live in Crouch End? Where are you planning to have your baby? I'm on postnatal April 2007 because that's when baby was due though he actually turned up in May, I live a couple of miles east of Crouch End and I gave birth at the Whittington.

Elkiedee, I'm in CE and hoping to have baby at the Whittington too. Hope your experiences there were good.

My experiences at the Whittington were mixed but I am happy with my decision to go there as opposed to other hospitals. All the midwives I encountered were great, especially on admission and during labour - I liked the ones working on post-natal but there just weren't enough there to help with getting feeding established. I've heard stories from other women in this area about encountering really rude staff at other hospitals, no one at the Whittington was less than friendly and polite, even though it was evident that they were stretched very thin at times.

Hope all goes well.

I'm due at Christmas and am going to weekly ante-natal yoga classes at the Methodist Church on Middle Lane (Crouch End) run by Anna www.birthwiseyoga.co.uk While obviously it's mostly yoga there is a lot of talking and sharing of experiences which I'm finding invaluable. I haven't been able to get on any other courses with the exception of one in Finchley which involves five consecutive Tuesday mornings. The course organiser's email assured me that my work legally had to allow me the time off- but I can just imagine my boss' face! And of course no way on earth dh could come along. So looks like I'll just be going with the Whittington's one-day course in November.

has anyone been to the antenatal classes run by plus baby or baby moon? Would be useful to hear about what they are like. thanks

Hi - just picked up this thread - sorry for the absence and hope you're all well. We did the PlusBaby classes, they were pretty good and I met some lovely mum-to-bes but I didn't learn anything I hadn't already read in a book. I also did a course of 3 consecutive weeks run by the Whittington (free of charge) and in terms of content, they proved to be much more useful, realistic and more importantly, relevant to my experience of labour because they were run by a Whittington midwife. I'd say it would be worth doing both because PlusBaby is a smaller group with more opportunities to make friends (we were all N8 / N6 based), but in terms of accurate info, the NHS classes were far superior.