About

If you know nothing about birth or babies and want knowhow from experienced practising midwives, these classes are designed for you.

I have been helping new parents get clued up about birth and babies since 2003. The Knowledge Antenatal Classes aim to give reliable, current, practical help to Learner Parents. A major key to having a good birth experience is high quality information. You can’t choose if you don’t know the choices. I love running my classes (actually I love my whole job) and take all the sessions myself. Between us we have a combined 20 years of midwifery experience. The least that you deserve is the best that we can give.

Having a baby is a powerful emotional and physical experience, but a very normal one. Sadly, most media coverage of birth is filled with emergencies and horror stories. Even friends who are already mothers make pregnancy more frightening by telling their birth stories with added drama. For the vast majority of women, the reality is different, and compared to the newspapers quite boring!

Most pregnant women turn up to classes desperately hoping that somebody will give them the key to getting through the experience without feeling traumatised. That there will be some good news. We understand that is usually our starting point when you walk into our classes.

To get the best from the maternity healthcare services, you and your support partner need to know what is on offer and what choices you have. If you are well informed and feel involved in decision making, you will be able to hold your birth experience in your memory as a brilliant day. Your day.

With the right information given by the right people, you will learn that you can do it, you can cope, and you can feel much less vulnerable.

We are straight talking, practical, non-judgemental, experienced, working midwives. Between us, we have five children, so we have also walked in your shoes.

We also know that once your baby is here, it is quite useful to know what to do with it, so basic early days parenting is part of the course.

You also have the opportunity to learn Baby & Child Emergency Life Support Skills, basic first aid for newborns and older children, which is open to you and anyone who will be caring for your baby. Essential life skills.

Would you like The Knowledge about babies and birth or to make a booking for the next class? If so, then Contact us where we’ll be more than happy to help with any questions you may have.

Who we are

Sarah Denning RM (BSc Hons)

I founded antenatal classes at the Spire Hospital Bushey in 2004, and I am also the midwife ‘half’ of The Birth Team with Consultant Obstetrician Richard Sheridan. I am passionate about the importance of giving high quality antenatal education to new parents so they can make choices for themselves. Being a practising labour ward midwife, I focus on reality, and how birth can and should be a good experience. I live in Bushey Heath with my two nearly grown up daughters and son.