Tailored to you, this is your time to ask questions and to gather information, plan and work through the challenges.
With a range of 1:1 sessions, I can work with you during pregnancy, for and during birth, beyond birth and with your young family.
These are professional, confidential, welcoming and practical sessions, so you can learn, share, talk and ask questions. You will also receive resources to read in your own time.
As an experienced practitioner, I specialise in 1:1 sessions so you can focus on your individual need for information, support and reassurance during this time of change and challenge.
Pregnancy
For ongoing support and additional conversations about your antenatal care and plans for birth.
Birth Preparation
For knowledge, to explore your options, to help you plan, to give you confidence and to answer your questions.
You & Your New Baby
So you can adjust and find your feet, to discuss your recovery and what can make a difference during the early days and weeks..
Birth & Baby Debrief
To talk through and make sense of the birth of your baby, as well as the first few days and weeks. It can help to talk about what you experienced and how you feel.
Baby Sleep Support
1:1 sessions for information, reassurance and to support you when you are tired, out of ideas and maybe feeling like you are doing something wrong.
Postnatal Issues
For ongoing information, support and reassurance throughout your baby’s first year. We can talk through issues such as feeding, sleep, growth spurts, weaning, going back to work as well as being a parent.
For you, the person behind the parent
For ongoing support beyond the postnatal period so you can talk through the issues affecting you as your children get older and the challenges change.
Antenatal & Postnatal Package
A series of 1:1 sessions for consistent and ongoing information, support and reassurance during pregnancy, for birth and throughout the first few months with your baby.
“Janine is calm and reassuring and nothing is too silly to ask.”
“You helped us to consider different options and to say what we needed, It made a huge difference.”
“Janine has been an absolute saving grace for me in navigating the challenges of motherhood during lockdown. I would recommend her to everyone.”
“As first-time dad, I have been feeling nervous – thank you for answering all my questions and putting my mind at ease. I could have chatted to you all day!”
Pregnancy, birth and being a parent are very personal so it feels important to provide personalised sessions that are tailored to you. Individual sessions give you the time to ask questions and focus on what your need.
With a calm, knowledgeable approach, my role is to provide you with information you can trust – based on evidence and experience – with ongoing support and reassurance.
I am here to boost your confidence, to provide an experienced perspective and to help you develop effective coping strategies and plans for you, your birth and your family.
Face-to-face sessions are ideal for parents across Newcastle & Tyneside.
With video sessions, I work with parents and families everywhere.
How can I help?
- With 1:1 sessions, an online learning space and the Birth & Baby Community, I can work with parents everywhere.
- Tyneside parents can also arrange doula support and come along to Mother Cuppa.
- You can also follow me on Instagram for more birth & baby conversations.
Janine Smith Practice 