A positive C-Section starts with the right preparation.

Feel calm and supported for your C-Section birth with this stand-alone program. Physio-led classes, personalised guidance and expert education combine to help you create your positive birthing experience.

Your C-section deserves thoughtful preparation, expert support, and evidence-based guidance. That’s why we created this specialised C-Section Birth Preparation Program.

The C-Section Birth Preparation Program can be done on its own or alongside the EMP Pregnancy Program.

Feel supported with the specific tools, knowledge, and care needed for a surgical birth and recovery.

Feel prepared and confident for your birth

Module 1: Understanding Your C-Section Birth

Understanding each stage of your C-section birth will help you reduce fear and build confidence.

This isn’t just “what to expect.” It’s about becoming an active, informed participant in your own surgical birth.

Learn how to navigate your options, ask the right questions, and build a birth plan that aligns with your values.

Module 2: Protecting Your Pelvic Floor and Core during Pregnancy

Yes, your pelvic floor matters—even after a C-section.

Pregnancy alone can strain these muscles, and postnatal healing still depends on strong pelvic floor support.

This module helps you to understand how pregnancy impacts your pelvic floor and core and maintain a strong and connected pelvic floor and core during pregnancy.

Module 3: Preparing your Body for C-Section surgery

Prepare your body for surgery and learn gentle movement techniques to support your postnatal recovery. Physio-led birth preparation classes help:

Improve recovery outcomes
Maintain mobility
Reduce post-surgical complications
Ease anxiety and promote calm before birth

Module 4: Prepare your Mind for Birth

A surgical birth doesn’t have to feel sterile or disempowering.

Learn from clinical psychologist how to reduce fear surrounding birth.

Simple yogic breathing techniques will help you to prepare for your birth with a calm and grounded mind.

Module 5: Empowered Postpartum

This module includes an overview of the EMP C-Section Week by Week recovery program alongside your C-Section Recovery Essentials.

Our 18-week C-Section Recovery program is designed to be started from birth and progress you towards a safe return to exercise, running and impact.

Why prepare for a C-Section birth?

We believe that you deserve so much more than to be treated as a passive participant in your birth.

And you deserve preparation that’s just as intentional, loving, and powerful.

Your mindset, your movement, your breathing, your recovery plan—they all shape how you experience birth and how you feel in the days, weeks, and months that follow.

C-section births come with unique needs.

You may be navigating unexpected emotions if your birth plans changed.

And you will be undertaking the huge task of caring for a newborn whilst recovering from major surgery.

You deserve tools to stay connected, calm, and confident throughout your birth and to set you up for the best recovery possible.

Information you can trust from a wide range of birthing experts.

Meet the experts behind the Empowered Birth Preparation Program

Lyz Evans

Titled Pelvic Health Physiotherapist

Dr Jason Chow

Gynaecologist and Obstetrician

Dr Lynn Townsend

Gynaecologist and Obstetrician

Dr Nicole Highet

Clinical Perinatal Psychologist

Jennifer Hazi

Private Registered Midwife

Cathy Shortt

Certified Lactation Consultant

Polly Delaney

Registered Midwife and Nurse

Belinda Kirkpatrick

Naturopath

Real life support and guidance

We have given birth in every way possible. From 20 hour vaginal deliveries to maternal assisted Caesarean sections. We know that the way you feel seen and supported during your preparation for birth can have a huge impact on your motherhood journey. We are here to support you as you prepare to bring your baby into the world with real-life guidance and support.

Start your Empowered Birth Journey today

All Your Questions, Answered:

When should I start the C-Section Birth Program?

How is this different from a hospital antenatal class?

What equipment do I need?

Does this program include postnatal recovery?

Is the program suitable for first-time mums and those who’ve birthed before?

What kind of support is included with the program?

I found the C-Section birth preparation content really useful - even though this is my third birth!

It can be terrifying if you have no idea what to expect during and after the procedure.

It was a great reminder of what is in store, and it gave me a chance to slow down and start to prepare my body and mind for my birth.

The videos give a really good insight into what to expect and what is involved in a C-Section and helped to set me up for a really positive postnatal recovery.

As a physio, I really appreciate how clear and easy to understand the videos are.

- Sophie

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"Why didn't anyone tell me this could happen?"

Between us, we've been pregnant six times and supported thousands of women. As a physio and perinatal exercise specialist, we built Empowered Motherhood to offer the expert care we wish every mother had.

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