Antenatal Class: Considerations for caesarean birth

Sign up to our virtual antenatal classes to prepare for the arrival of your new baby. These antenatal classes are recommended from 18 weeks gestation, we also recommend that you attend the Antenatal Class - Introduction to labour and birth prior to this session. (Please note these classes are running online and do not require you to attend the hospital)

The online classes will be run by our midwives who will talk you through the considerations of having a planned caesarean section.

Due to limited spaces, we respectfully ask that only pregnant people who are receiving antenatal care by our community midwives or booked to have their baby with Northumbria Healthcare Trust book onto the sessions. We encourage partners and any other family members to join in too – whoever may be supporting you when your baby is born.

The link to join the session will be emailed to you by the morning of the class. Please check your junk / spam folder if you are unable to find the email in your inbox.

The link below is a guide to getting started with Teams if you have never used it:

Microsoft Teams help & learning

**Please note that other users in the session may be able to see your name and details – please check your privacy settings if you do not want to share these.**

To show or hide your contact information:

1. Open Microsoft Teams (free).

Tip: For Chat in Windows 11, select the Open Teams button.

1. Select Settings and more then select Settings.
2. Select Privacy then select the Manage profile button.
3. From here you can Hide or Show your phone number, email, or both.

Please note, we advise all audio to be turned off throughout the class to support the reduction of background noise, you can also turn your camera off if you prefer not to be seen. Teams allows the opportunity to type a chat question during the session and there will be a midwife available throughout to answer questions as they arise. We hope we can make this online class as informative as possible, by having the chat questions throughout and you will have the opportunity to talk at the end of session with the midwives and other expectant pregnant people. Please Note: Only one booking per family is needed even if multiple people are attending