Antenatal classes in Bristol

Midwives teaching honest, realistic hypnobirthing & antenatal classes in Bristol & North Somerset

Newborn care workshops & expert support for new parents

Midwife Laura Turner teaching antenatal classes in Bristol

Hi, I'm Laura...

I’m so pleased you’ve found us! You’re probably finding that there are a confusing number of other hypnobirthing instructors & antenatal classes in Bristol & North Somerset. Full disclosure: you might find some that are cheaper…but I'm confident you won’t find any that are better value, as honest & realistic and packed so full of seriously clued up insider knowledge!

I am a practising Bristol midwife, fertility nurse & hypnobirthing mum-of-two with a real skill for making antenatal preparation as relevant, valuable, down-to-earth and achievable for you as possible. I'm not a believer that there is only one ideal way to give birth…instead I am passionate about providing you with everything you need to navigate all births, whether things go to plan or throw you an unexpected curveball.

How you feel through ANY type of birth should be confident, calm, supported & empowered! And my expertly designed antenatal courses can get you there. You & your birth partner will find that choosing us as your guides & cheerleaders is a serious game-changer when it comes to birth! This is the reason Little Passengers is one of the highest rated antenatal & hypnobirthing providers in the area, and why I’ve won several awards over the years for both innovation & expertise…

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WHAT CAN WE HELP YOU WITH?

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Complete Antenatal Courses

Award-winning hypnobirthing & antenatal classes in Bristol, North Somerset and online via Zoom. Sociable groups or private courses to transform those worries into feeling calm, confident & ready for anything...

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Planned Caesarean Workshops

Hypnobirthing tools, techniques & invaluable knowledge to prepare you & your birth partner for a calm, personalised elective caesarean in Bristol...or anywhere else! 

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Newborn Baby Care Workshops

Expertly designed to get you feeling equipped for the exciting but often challenging adventure of new parenthood, with strategies to ease the transition for both you & baby in those first few months together...

WHY CHOOSE LITTLE PASSENGERS?

Hypnobirthing expert in Bristol

An Award-Winning Antenatal Course!

Parent & Baby Awards 2024 'Most Trusted Hypnobirthing & Antenatal Course Provider' - South West England

UK Enterprise Awards 2021 'Hypnobirthing Expert of the Year' - South West England

Parent & Baby Awards 2020 'Most Innovative Hypnobirthing & Antenatal Course Provider' - UK

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With so much more than just the basics

A complete antenatal course for ANY birth with an experienced local midwife and hypnobirthing mum, including tons of inside info!

You know you are getting expertise, experience and ACCURATE info....with no need to pay for any other antenatal classes!

Group hypnobirthing in south Bristol

Plus others to share your journey with

Fun, friendly and sociable group classes that will get you chatting & sharing ideas with your like-minded course-mates.

Plus a dedicated WhatsApp Group for you all to help you get to know one another & build that invaluable new-parent tribe

Nothing but 5-Star Reviews...

Little Passengers - Calm Birth, Calm Parenting
100% recommend

"My fiancé Saskia booked us onto Laura’s Hypnobirthing Course and being a pretty open minded bloke I was interested to see what it had to offer, though not really knowing what to expect. I had no idea how amazingly positive it would be for the two of us and how it would empower us with the mental tools to remove any fear heading into birth. Laura is an amazing tutor and has an incredibly calming aura about her, making you feel immediately relaxed as soon as you walk through the door.

Laura structures the course in an informative and interactive manner and you have plenty of opportunity to ask questions, which in our classes case turned into really interesting conversations, answering some queries we no doubt all have in our heads but are too scared or embarrassed to ask. You feel really comfortable talking about anything come the end, and we were all quite sad it had to end!

As a guy, I found Laura’s course highly educational learning about how truly amazing the female body is in the weeks and months leading up to birth, as well as the big day and then days and weeks after, learning to help make the whole process as comfortable for Saskia as possible - something many men don’t have a clue about which often makes them look and feel absolutely useless, when this does not need to be the case. Thank you Laura for opening our minds and introducing us to Hypnobirthing. I would recommend this course 100%!"

Jodie & Saskia

"We couldn’t recommend this course highly enough. As second time parents, we had already attended ante natal classes and NCT before but wanted to try Hypnobirthing this time around. I have learnt so much more and felt like it was a brilliant mixture of the hypnobirthing techniques as well as in depth antenatal information. Laura is a midwife in Bristol and her knowledge and experience was so valuable in the middle of a pandemic when access to normal resources weren’t available!

The course was expertly delivered online as a safe alternative, and we both looked forward to our evening sessions. I feel like Laura helped us so much, especially when our plans changed and I was called in for induction and wouldn’t be able to go to the MLU and have the birth I had my heart set on. I still managed to have a great birth and stay in control of what I wanted. I would definitely recommend Little Passengers for new and second timers"

Amy & Mark

"Laura was absolutely superb. As an experienced actively-practicing midwife and mother, she is able to provide the course with depth, substance and realism which I believe can be missing in some hypnobirthing and other antenatal courses. Laura's course is not just about how to go through labour itself, but how to make informed decisions to help you stay in control and understand the process all the way through, whatever twists and turns may arise. There was a wonderfully balanced look at the roles of both natural birth and medical intervention and providing understanding of these and the tools to question and decide what is the right path for you at any point. As a new parent myself, I can't recommend this course enough as it was incredibly useful in helping us to have a positive experience"

Robin & Persephone

"If labour and birth are making you feel a little on edge we would recommend Little Passengers hypnobirthing to anyone. Myself and my partner went in with an open mind and came away feeling excited about giving birth and meeting our little man. Laura made us feel comfortable while listening to any questions we had big or small! While being on the course we were told we would have to have an induction, something I really didn’t want to have but Laura had all the information to make us feel calm about our new situation.
Great way to meet other parents too and make new mummy friends!"

Kirsty & Rob

"If I could give more stars, I would! If you're looking for an empowering and honest antenatal course, little passengers is the one for you. Hypnobirthing is more than relaxation and breathing techniques.
We have done it for our second baby & I truly regret not having done it during my first pregnancy.
Laura is fantastic, very knowledgeable and supportive. I really valued that she shared her own experience not only as a local midwife working for the NHS but as a mum of 2. She is very clear and straight forward, sharing evidence based information and the resources and tools gained during this course are everlasting. I have to add that this is brilliant for birth partners too, we were truly a team and I felt so supported & understood. This birth was a healing, powerful and empowering experience"

Cas & Jamie

"The Little Passengers course really changed the game for us. I had assumed the birth of our first baby would be difficult and traumatic - a case of just getting through it. But my partner and I learnt so much with Laura, and felt fully prepared and positive and I certainly felt much more capable and empowered as a first time mum to be. The wealth of information and tips and tools, both medical/clinical and less so, was fantastic, and the course was delivered in a very open, honest and friendly way - we felt we could ask anything.

Our little boy was born via water birth in the midwife-led unit, without any major difficulty or intervention. Although obviously a challenging experience for me, I genuinely would only describe it as positive and this course played a huge role for me and for my partner"

Hannah & Sean

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