Anne Bradshaw
B.Sc(Hons), PGCE (HE), Dip HE, Dip.VIDLA, F.HEA
A member of the College of Teachers and
The Federation of Antenatal Educators
Anne is a mother and grandmother, with over 20 years experience as a Childbirth and Parenting Educator. Anne has taught almost 3000 parents over this time as an Advanced Teacher for National Childbirth Trust, and as an Independent Childbirth Educator. For three years she held the post of Parent Education Consultant for the Worcestershire NHS Trust, and during this time worked on the production of a dvd for Worcestershire County Council Children's Centres, writing the script for the "Story of Birth". For the past twelve years she has lectured student midwives at University of Worcester, on "Normal Birth", "Active Birth", "Vocalising in Labour, "Teaching Adults", and "Preparing to Teach Antenatal Classes". She has also written a chapter on "Teaching Antenatal Classes - How can Midwives Deliver" (Community Midwifery Practice, Edwins J, 2008).
Her passion is teaching simple techniques for coping with the childbirth experience:
"as long as the baby, mother and father are healthy and happy after their experience, then it doesn't matter how the baby is born - but how much easier it is to look after a new baby when there has been little or no intervention, and the birth has been straightforward..... "
Her passion is teaching simple techniques for coping with the childbirth experience:
"as long as the baby, mother and father are healthy and happy after their experience, then it doesn't matter how the baby is born - but how much easier it is to look after a new baby when there has been little or no intervention, and the birth has been straightforward..... "
