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Online antenatal pathways
NHS online antenatal pathways for everyone
Understanding your pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby
Available to everyone in the UK, free of charge. High-quality, evidence-based online antenatal learning pathways to help you feel confident and prepared. For the start of your parenting journey and beyond.
Created by NHS midwives with clinical psychologists. The online antenatal pathways help you prepare for labour, birth and caring for your baby. Learning about emotional health will help build a relationship with your baby that sets them up to thrive. Here you will learn everything you need to know about becoming a parent, including:
- Your emotional wellbeing
- Getting to know your baby in the womb
- Your baby’s development
- Relaxing and breathing techniques
- Your body and preparing for labour
- Stages of labour and types of delivery
- Pain relief
- Your feelings during labour
- Feeding your baby
- Comforting your baby
Pathways are online and designed to fit around you – follow in your own time, wherever you are!
“I think one of the things we all need to remember and to share with parents is antenatal education is not just about preparing for birth; it’s preparing for life.”
Carla Jones-Charles
Director of Midwifery, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Understanding pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby
This learning pathway supports you to prepare to give birth and bond with your new baby.
Understanding pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby: for women couples
Tailored specifically for women couples, this pathway supports you to prepare to give birth and bond with your new baby.
Community languages
‘Understanding pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby’ is available in professionally translated Modern Standard Arabic, Polish, Urdu, and Welsh.
For fathers
Dads, the antenatal course is for you too. The pathway will help you to understand pregnancy, birth and the early stages of development. Build your confidence to be there for your baby and your partner. Your relationship will be one of the most important to help your baby thrive, so the pathways have tailored sections for you, too!
For grandparents
These antenatal pathways are accessible for everyone. We know how important grandparents are in supporting parent and baby to thrive. Check in on the most recent information to prepare for a newborn and show support for your family!
A hand to hold throughout your parenting journey
Togetherness is a hand to hold throughout your parenting journey. Tailored online learning pathways and resources will help you when your baby is here and as they grow up. Learn about childhood development, behaviour, communication and lots more. Ideas and information to nurture your relationship for confidence, resilience and emotional awareness.
“Understanding pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby gives you physical information about the changes in your body and what to expect. But I think, really importantly, starting bonding antenatally will hopefully carry on through the postnatal period.”
Carla Jones-Charles
Director of Midwifery, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Delivered by Togetherness
Rooted in the NHS. Powered by psychology. Amplified for today.
Togetherness exists to raise emotional health for every child, parent and professional. Learning resources use the Solihull Approach model to support families in a changing world.
The Solihull Approach was created in the NHS with health and psychology experts. It makes key psychological theories— containment, reciprocity and behaviour—accessible to all. Togetherness supports emotional development and relational health.