Prep'Classes
Birth preparation classes in English, for expat parents-to-be in France.
Prepare for your baby’s arrival, understand the first days of parenthood and move forward with reliable bearings — in a language that lets you take everything in.
The Renésens Prep’Classes complement the standard birth preparation offered to parents-to-be in France, with information adapted to expat families.
These classes help you understand the key stages of having a baby in France, ask your questions and build your own bearings, in English, with an accessible and caring approach.
Designed for parents-to-be, they also fully include the co-parent, so that each of you can understand your role, share the same information and move through this transition together.
Small-group classes (online, or occasionally in person) that combine:
- Reliable information based on current guidelines
- A clear transmission of the essential knowledge
- A space to talk with other expat parents-to-be
- Practical advice to live the first days with your baby with more peace of mind
1. Preparing Your Stay at the Maternity Ward in France
Prepare for your maternity stay and understand the first days with your baby in France.
This class helps you better understand how French maternity wards work and anticipate this important step. You will cover:
- How French maternity wards work
- How a maternity stay unfolds
- The care and check-ups offered for your baby after the birth
- The first steps after your baby’s arrival
- The essential bearings to live those first days with more peace of mind
- Practical advice to organise your stay (maternity bag, surroundings, the rhythm of the first days…)
Duration: 2h.
2. Breastfeeding Foundations
Build solid foundations around breastfeeding and understand how to start this new stage with confidence.
This class helps you better understand the physiology of breastfeeding, how lactation is established and the different ways you can feed your baby. You will cover:
- How breastfeeding works and how lactation is established
- The first days after the birth
- The different plans open to you: exclusive breastfeeding, mixed feeding, exclusive pumping…
- Common situations, and how to prevent certain difficulties
- How to find reliable information in a world where advice can be plentiful and contradictory
A class designed for both parents, so that each of you understands what is at stake, can support the plan you have chosen and move forward as a team.
Duration: 2h.
3. Settling In with Baby
Find your footing in the first weeks with your baby.
Coming home is a major transition: you have to get to know your baby, care for them and build a new family organisation. This class gives you practical bearings around:
- Your baby’s medical follow-up and the vaccination schedule in France
- Daily newborn care
- Current guidelines for a safe environment
- Outings, visits, travel and organising those first weeks
- Observing your baby more closely and understanding their needs
A class to approach the early days with more confidence, and to let both parents work as a team around their baby.
Duration: 1h30.
The Renésens Prep’Classes Pack
Prepare for your baby’s arrival with the 3 essential classes. By booking all three Prep’Classes, you get:
- Preparing Your Stay at the Maternity Ward in France
- Breastfeeding Foundations
- Settling In with Baby
Total value: €105 — your price: €89.
Format
Small-group classes
Online, or occasionally in person
Duration: 1h30 to 2h depending on the class
Take part on your own or with the person of your choice
Rates
- Single class
- €35
- Pack of 3 classes
- €89
Bring one person along at no extra cost for online sessions*.
* A couple rate applies to in-person sessions.
Other support offers
PrepareHaving a Baby in France Guide
Understand the French perinatal journey with a practical guide designed for expat families.
PrepareBecoming a Family Coaching
A space to reflect on this new stage, put words to your questions and move forward with more confidence.
PreparePrenatal Breastfeeding Consultation
One-to-one support to build your breastfeeding plan on reliable foundations.
Not sure where to start?
Every expat family lives a different reality. Depending on your stage of pregnancy, your arrival in France, your family situation or what you need right now, some forms of support will suit you better than others.
In a first conversation, we take the time to get to know each other and to identify together the resources and support that best answer your situation.