Every six weeks or so Active birth workshops are available for expectant couples. The workshop is designed to inform and empower both parties throughout the labour and birth process. The areas covered include, the postures and breathing techniques of an active labour, how to maximize your time labouring at home before transferring to hospital which will decrease the likelihood intervention, the hormones of labour and how to keep them flowing, delivery postures to minimize inervention, connecting with baby, the post natal period and more. Lou will be drawing on knowlegde from her wonderful teachers, Uma Dismore Tuli (Life Centre, Birthlight) Judith Crowe (Active Birth), all the wise mothers, grandmothers, midwives she has met along the way, and finally from her own experience through her own home births. It is recommended to wail until 34 weeks plus before attending a workshop.

"Active birth is nothing new. It is simply a convienient way of describing normal labour and birth and the way that a woman behaves when she is following her own instincts and the physiological logic if her body" Janet Balaskas.