If you or your birth partner is pregnant with a due date in July, August or September, you can book onto the student-led sessions for free!
Third-year DMU student midwives will be running free Parent Education Sessions for four Monday evenings during June, open to staff, students or any pregnant person in the local area.
Sessions will be fully supervised by fully qualified DMU Midwifery Lecturers and cover topics including:
- Labour and birth - what to expect, different types of birth and the choices families have
- Exploring birth environments – including home, birth centres, hospital and theatre settings, and the pain relief options available in each
- Infant feeding options - including breast feeding, formula feeding and a combination of the two
- The transition to parenthood - what to expect in the early days and how to support a baby’s early development
Dates: Mondays 1, 8, 15 & 22 June, 6-8pm
Location: Edith Murphy House De Montfort University LE1 5RR
Glowing feedback…
This will be the third time DMU student midwives have run parent education sessions. Feedback from previous courses have been really positive:
“The session about pain relief was the most helpful because I wasn't really mentally prepared. I felt nervous, and I didn't know what the options were. But I found that there are so many more options than I thought and that perhaps it's not as scary as I’d imagined.”
Amina
“We enjoyed the hands-on, interactive elements. We actually got to change a baby, and practice feeding – it definitely took some of the worries away.”
Amy
Watch and read more from September’s sessions.
Reserve your place
For more information, please email Sarah Lakeland at sarah.lakeland@dmu.ac.uk.
Sessions are free of charge but must be booked in advance. Numbers are limited so follow the link to guarantee your place.
Posted on Tuesday 31 March 2026