About | Hunter Birth Education

How many GPS, or midwives even, do you know that are also a birth counsellor, birth doula and private birth educator experienced in teaching 1000's of couples about birth?

We don't expect our medical care providers to know all the speciality stuff about birth or the emotional needs for birth? Do we?

Time to stop assuming and hire the emotional and mindset support that can take your birth from stress, worry and fear - to pleasure, joy and fun!

Let's chat further if you'd like to know:

How to achieve an affordable and enjoyable birth!

How to have enhanced team work with your supporters

How to be prepared for birth REALISTICALLY and POSITIVELY at the same time, and,

All the full psychological, mindset and emotional preparation needed to ENJOY the adventure ahead.

Warm wishes,

Natalie Meade

Who am I?

I am a "50-year-wise" mother of two healthy, flourishing, children (aged 8 and 15) and a proud "grand-doula" to many, more, babies!

When you work with me you get a very wide and deep knowledge of birth, women's health, parenting and relationships.

What I do

I support women (and families) to be fully emotionally heard, I help them feel confident, to have clear direction for their needs and decision making,

I help women (and families) feel assured, validated and special. When you work with me your are treated as uniquely human and special.

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I LOVE my work

I work with women, humans, birth, babies and relationships, as I believe it is the MOST important work ON EARTH!

It is my pure love, care, passion and enthusiasm that buoys me each day to enjoy and flourish in this field. When you work with me you are buoyed along with me.

Why I can confidentially recommend - MYSELF!

After 14 years devoted to community work, women and mothers and researching birth, living, breathing and dreaming birth, I am at a place where I can confidentially mention myself and know you are in good hands.

As an educator, I write my OWN programs and weave in the wisdoms my hundreds of mentors, role models, experts, that are, midwives, OBs and birth experts, from around the world.

As a counsellor and Birth Doula, I am wise, calm and skilled.

I excel at the skills needed to guide you gently, lovingly and strategically towards your needs, wants and desires!

I also want to hear YOUR thoughts, beliefs, feelings and reflections.

Special Messages From Clients!

Natalies’ Birth Education course enabled me to have a calm pregnancy and an empowering birth experience. My husband and I both learnt a great deal about natural birthing and nurturing parenting methods.

Amy and Rob - Newcastle, NSW

Natalie taught my husband and I amazing life skills that we have applied with our parenting technique and our work.

Ben and Gem - Central Coast, NSW

The classes definitely helped me to cope…In my birth I chose some minor interventions and I felt in control and happy about my choices!

Elisa - Sydney, NSW

I would recommend The Hunter Birth Education Centre to any prospective parents who want to alleviate the worries of parenthood.

Benjamin - NSW

Natalie gave me birthing confidence and confidence as a mother. The relaxation skills I learnt – I still use today

Emma - Nelsons Bay, NSW

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My wish for you...

I have a dream for all women! It is that they can feel their OWN body go into labour (an amazing feeling emotionally and physically) AND next, (dreaming super-big now), I dream that all women can feel their OWN body do it's OWN expulsive pushing! (a mind blowing experience).

Heard of those things? Want to know all the key things about labour, labour, and, expulsive pushing? - book in to educate with me NOW!!)

I LOVE helping birth become more pleasurable, fun and special for the humans I work with. You might not experience one or all of my two biggest dreams, but we will have fun preparing and you'll gain a whole lot more than you imagined.

My favourite gifts I share with all families I work with:

Stimulating and enlightening breakthroughs.

Intellectually-stimulating conversations.

Relationship work, team work, communication work, intimacy and bonding work.

My Services

Online Hypnobirthing: "Psyched For Birth" One month, online intensive, Australia Wide.

My own program from working with over 1000 families over 14 years.
Includes much needed mindset and psychology, plus the best of the best of Hypnobirthing and much more.
Work with me LIVE from the comfort of your own home

Counselling
Face to face, Newcastle Region, NSW.

Birth Counselling
Gottman Relationship Work
Couples Counselling
Hypnotherapy

Birth Doula
Newcastle and surrounds + virtual

Confident and experienced Doula @ JHH, Newcastle Private, Gosford, Singleton, Maitland and Belmont/Private Midwife homebirth.

Emotional, physical and mental support for pregnancy, labour, birth.and postpartum.

Attend a Birth Course with Me via our local Community Project:
Newcastle Birth Movement.

Your Local, Community, Birth-and-Family Project!

A unique and special birth passion project!

Centrally located at Warners Bay, not far from Baby Bunting. And with tons of car parking!

Everything we do is professional, high quality, AND best of all, not-for-profit and affordable!

Come along for a large array of workshops, birth circles, birth courses, prenatal yoga and EVEN preloved maternity, breastfeeding and baby wear!!!

Including my two, very own, face-to-face birth courses: "One Precious Day" Birth Course (only 175) AND, "Hypnobirthing + Extras" Five Week Course (only 285)

Sounds too good to be true? Yes our prices are different to private businesses in the region and Australia. We are unique, in that we are running course as a community project and our Projects' goal and mission is to make excellent quality, private, birth education and support, not-for-profit and affordable.

Let's talk birth - my favourite subject.

Contact Nat

Respect and honour to the Awabakal and Worimi people as the original and wise custodians of this land. Honour to those who have birthed and breastfed their babies on this sacred land for more than 65,000 years.

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The most common sentence I hear:"If only I had met you for my first birth".