Professional maternity services encompass a range of healthcare and support offerings tailored to expectant mothers, providing care before, during, and after childbirth. These services are designed to ensure the health and well-being of both the mother and the child. These can be medical such as midwives, gynaecologists and obstetrics, or non-medical, focussed on the care of the mother and child, such as doulas, maternity nurses and perinatal educators.
Maternity nursing involves providing specialised care to women during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period. Maternity nurses play a crucial role in supporting expectant mothers, newborns, and their families, offering both physical and emotional assistance.
Perinatal educators focus more on preparing mothers to be, and supporting them post partum through sharing vital knowledge of how to look after the newborn, and after themselves.
In both cases, maternity nurses and perinatal educators have a comprehensive knowledge of antenatal care, newborn care and postpartum support, and may specialise into caring for women with high risk pregnancies or premature or ill babies.
The Maternity Nanny focusses primarily on the baby, with newborn/infant physiology and care being at the centre of this role.
We offer Maternity training at 3 levels:
The level 3 Maternity Nanny is an ideal entry point for someone who is considering a career as a maternity nurse, or for someone who works in a related field, but requires further specific training with regards to newborns and infants.
The level 4 diploma is designed to provide more comprehensive training and would suit people who already have some experience of either working with newborns or generally in the childcare industry.
The level 5 advanced diploma is our most comprehensive course, that goes into more depth, and includes specialist areas like maternal mental health, and infants with special needs.