WHAT ARE THE WORKSHOPS?
Six sessions that become a village
Six sessions over six weeks, in my living room in Montpellier. Seven to eight people, all due with at similar date. English and French.
We cook for the postpartum weeks. We learn infant first aid from a certified trainer. We talk honestly about what the months after birth are actually like. And somewhere in the middle of that, you stop being strangers.
PRENATAL WORKSHOPS · MONTPELLIER
Build your village.
6 SESSIONS · ENGLISH & FRENCH · MONTPELLIER
Session 1
Welcome to the group
Introductions, and endocrine disruptors in everyday life.
Session 2
Postpartum cooking
Simple, nourishing recipes you can batch and freeze before the birth.
Session 3
Creative baby workshop
Personalise a babygrow using OEKO-TEX certified materials.
Recent systematic reviews find that social support interventions are among the most effective approaches to preventing postpartum depression.
Ahmad, M. et al. (2024), 'Social support as a coping resource for psychosocial conditions in postpartum period', BMC Psychology. doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01814-6
Session 4
Infant first aid
Led by a certified first aid trainer — the essentials for infant emergencies.
Session 5
Living postpartum
A creative session, and an honest conversation about what the months after birth are like.
Session 6
Practical essentials & safety
Car seats, safe sleep, the practical list. Then cake, and a letter to yourself that I'll post to you in six months.
Practicalities
Sessions 1, 2, 3 and 5 are Monday mornings, 10h–12h. Sessions 4 and 6 are Tuesday evenings, 19h–21h, so partners can come.
Partners are welcome to all sessions.
There's a WhatsApp group for each cycle. It's yours to keep — most of them are still going long after I've stopped being in it.
How this fits with your préparation à la naissance
If you're giving birth in France, you're entitled to prenatal preparation sessions with a sage-femme, covered by the Assurance Maladie. Take them. They're good, they're free, and they'll teach you things I can't.
They're also a different thing to this. Those sessions prepare you for the birth. These prepare you for the year that follows it — the cooking, the first aid, the postpartum weeks nobody warns you about — and they put you in a room with eight other people who'll be awake at the same 4am as you.
Most people who come here have done both. That's what I'd recommend.
2027 WORKSHOP CYCLES
Find your cycle
Choose the cycle that starts when you're around 5–7 months pregnant — so you finish with time to settle in before your baby arrives.
Dates coming soon
Practical
€180 for all six sessions.
Eight places per cycle. Registration closes two weeks before the first session.
Daytime sessions take place at my home in Montpellier. The address goes to registered participants.
If you miss a session you'll get a summary and any handouts. Individual sessions aren't refundable, but I'll help you catch up where I can.