Top Antenatal Classes in Hong Kong to Get You Ready for Labour

Classes to get you ready for the Birth Day!

With the due date looming, there’s nothing that can help settle those nerves better than equipping yourself with knowledge by going back to school, and by school, we mean antenatal classes! Bring yourself and hubby along to the classes that will demystify the labour experience and gain skills to help you through deliver your bubba.

A Mother’s Touch

With a motto of bump, baby, and beyond, A Mother’s Touch accommodates women at every stage of pregnancy. We love that relaxation techniques like massages, acupuncture, and reflexology are used to assist with the labour and birth. Deep breath, mama, you got this. A lactation consultant is even available to accompany you at the hospital during your first days to ensure proper breastfeeding. Phew.

Where: 16/F Tin On Sing, Commercial Building, 41-43 Graham Street, Central, Hong Kong (they also do home visits)
How much: Preparing4Birth and Preparing4Baby prenatal classes $1,900 (one class), $3,500 (two classes) Find out more here.
How much (home visit fees): North Hong Kong Island – HK$150 / visit; Kowloon, The Peak, South Hong Kong Island – HK$ 300 / visit; Outlaying Islands, New Territories, Kowloon – HK$400 / visit
Contact: www.amotherstouch.com.hk, e-mail here; 9086 9477

Annerley: The Midwives Clinic

Prepare yourself for the big day (and beyond!) with a range of pregnancy courses and antenatal checkups, including a 4D ultrasound experience, acupuncture, hypnotherapy and HypnoFertility (to name a few). Under the help of a midwife, you’ll have on-call labour support and unlimited pregnancy care. Postnatal breastfeeding home visits and postpartum therapy support groups are helpful in transitioning new families. Take advantage of pregnancy packages, which are tailored based on the type of hospital, checkups, antenatal courses, and postnatal home visits.

Where: 7/F, Tak Woo House, 17-19 D’Aguilar Street, Central, Hong Kong
How much: $19,935 for public hospital birth package, $16,425 for private hospital package, and $80,000 for platinum care package. Find out more about these services here.
Contact: www.annerley.com.hk, e-mail here, 2983 1558

Central Health

Other than offering prenatal assessments and consultations, Central Health is an all round medical clinic that has obstetrics and gynaecology, paediatrics, speech therapy, child development, psychology counselling amongst many other health treatments. This clinic is a great choice if you’re looking for a family doctor and medical treatment that extends beyond your prenatal care.

Where: 3/F, Baskerville House, 13 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong
How much: Call their offices for pricing information.
Contact: www.centralhealth.com.hk/booking, [email protected], 2824 0822

Matilda Hospital

This well-known private hospital is a favourite amongst many mamas. This is not surprising considering the many perks such as one-to-one midwife to client ratio, on-demand epidurals and multilingual antenatal courses. Their antenatal courses are divided into understanding natural delivery and understanding C-Sections. You can even extend your prenatal education and book to have natural delivery or C-section at the hospital when your little one arrives!

Where: 41 Mount Kellett Road, The Peak, Hong Kong
How much: $2,500 for natural delivery classes, $1,000 for C-Section classes
Contact: www.matilda.org/en/antenatal-course, [email protected], 2849 0357

Kathy Kitzis

Renowned for her massage treatments, this trained remedial massage therapist extends her expertise to Doula support. Consult her for pregnancy and postnatal massages, highly recommended for alleviating pain. Calmbirth® courses are also offered here to help expecting mamas have a more relaxing and focused birth.

Where: Massage appointments at Suite 1008, 10/F, Bank of America Tower, Hong Kong (Calmbirth® classes will be held at different locations depending on the date)
How much: $4,300 for 12hr Calmbirth® group class, $5,500 for private calm birth classes at home. Find out more here.
Contact: www.kathykitzis.com, [email protected], 6340 4687

The Family Zone

The name says it all, right mama? This practice is led by British-trained health visitor Yvonne Heavyside, who also serves as a lactation consultant and community nurse. Yvonne is most renowned for her child care, first aid & CPR course for domestic helpers, which helps tremendously with the division of labour. Her practice also incorporates postnatal home visits to guide new mothers during the baby’s first days.

How much: $1,150 for consultations, $1,380 per couple fast track antenatal classes (3×2 hrs) and  $1,150 for private antenatal classes (home tuition min 2hrs).
Contact: www.thefamilyzone.hk

Wellness & Birth

Looking for tailored made classes to assist you in your journey? Look no further than Wellness & Birth, the clinic which has been opened for over ten years by Karin Siegler. They offer prenatal and postnatal care which includes prenatal appointments, nutritional advice as well as emotional and physical well being and private birth classes.

Where: The Portofino, House 127, 88-188 Pak To Avenue, Sai Kung, Hong Kong, 9022- 1779
How much: Antenatal care for 60 minutes at $1,300, click here for more details.
Contact: www.wellnessandbirth.com; [email protected]

Good luck, mamas!