http://www.simplybirthbyanna.com/

Simply Birth by Anna, Leeds Deli Chelwood Drive Roundhay LS8 2AT, Leeds (2026)

10/10/2026

🌿 SIMPLY BIRTH: SOUTH LEEDS/BRADFORD

📍 FREE, FULLY FUNDED ANTENATAL CLASSES FOR EXPECTANT COUPLES IN SOUTH LEEDS/BRADFORD

Are you expecting a baby this Winter/Spring time?

I’m absolutely delighted to have been invited to deliver Antenatal classes in South Leeds in partnership with Bambini’s Play Cafe in Birkenshaw, thanks to National Lottery funding ✨ .. being able to offer these classes completely free to local couples is just joyous!

🌍 📍 Located for families in Morley, Gildersome, Drighlington, Birkenshaw, Cleckheaton, Birstall, Oakenshaw areas and surrounding South Leeds and Bradford areas ✨

🌸 WHAT WILL WE EXPLORE?

✨ Understanding birth and how your body works
✨ Birth choices, preferences and informed decision-making - how to apply the BRAIN acronym
✨ Practical tools for labour, including comfort, pain relief options, coping techniques and partner support
✨ How to be an active birth partner
✨ Preparing emotionally for birth and early parenthood - breathing techniques and settling the left side of your brain
✨Caring for your baby - responsive parenting with practical nappy and dressing demonstrations and practice
✨ Your post birth recovery & the baby moon
✨ Building confidence, connection and a supportive community with other expectant parents

3 X 2 hour Wednesday early evening sessions ☀️ 🌙 ☕️

*This is a condensed version of the comprehensive Simply Birth course offered in North Leeds, designed to bring essential birth preparation to families in South Leeds.

While this course doesn’t include a dedicated infant-feeding class, you’ll also have access to a separate drop-in session offered by Claire IBCLC .with.Claire

We have started 🤗🍂 .. welcoming our first group this Wednesday evening as the sun was setting in this calm and beautiful space ❤️

❄️ WINTER COURSE DATES AVAILABLE

📍 Bambini’s Play Cafe, Birkenshaw BD11 2DR

💷 Completely FREE - fully funded by National Lottery funding.

👫 Small, supportive groups for expectant couples.

🌿 READY TO BOOK?

Book your place directly through Bambini’s Play Cafe

🔗 https://www.bambinisplay.uk/community-hub
🌐 https://www.bambinisplay.uk

Bambinis | Play Cafe Anna Cockerham

01/08/2026

🌍 World Breastfeeding Week 👶🏼💕

Over the past five years, one of the greatest privileges has been welcoming families back to our postnatal reunions, usually when their babies are typically between 3 and 15 weeks old 👶🏼

Amongst the parents who come to our classes hoping to breastfeed, the overwhelming majority are still breastfeeding or exclusively feeding expressed breastmilk when we meet again. In most reunion groups, it’s all - or almost all - of those who set out hoping to breastfeed.

Does that mean their journeys have been easy?

Absolutely not.

Some have faced tongue tie issues, sore ni***es, sleepy babies, low milk supply concerns, mastitis, expressing, combination feeding, birth trauma, or a birth that didn’t go to plan. Some have had straightforward births, while others have experienced interventions or more medicalised births that can often make the early feeding journey more complex.

The difference isn’t that challenges don’t happen.

The difference is that parents have already begun to build their toolkit before their baby arrives.

Sadly, breastfeeding rates in the UK fall significantly in the first two weeks after birth. Yet this isn’t simply because parents don’t want to continue.

At precisely the time when women need practical help, reassurance and someone to remind them that they’re doing an incredible job, many find themselves spending long days alone as partners return to work 😞

It wasn’t always meant to be this way.

Humans have always raised babies in communities. Mothers learned from mothers. Feeding women supported other feeding women. Families gathered around new parents, allowing them to rest, recover and simply get to know their baby.

Lean into your family and friends. Find your local infant feeding team. Go to breastfeeding drop-in clinics. Meet other new parents. Share your stories, ask for help and support one another.

Prepare for feeding not just labour.

Because preparation isn’t about guaranteeing an easy journey.

It’s about giving yourself the very best chance of achieving the feeding goals that matter to you.

25/07/2026

📣 Exciting News... Simply Birth is Coming to South Leeds this Autumn ✨

After 5 wonderful years of supporting hundreds of families across North Leeds, I’m so excited to be bringing my 5⭐️ reviewed, midwife-led Simply Birth Course to Birkenshaw, South Leeds!

📍Now at Bambinis Play Café, Birkenshaw – conveniently located for families in Morley, Gildersome, Drighlington, Cleckheaton, Birstall, Oakenshaw, Bradford and surrounding South Leeds areas.

✨ Perfect for babies due in November & December 2026.

Thoughtfully designed and personally led by me, Anna, an experienced NHS Midwife, Simply Birth is a welcoming four-week course created to help you feel calm, confident and informed - whatever your birth journey may look like.

Whether you’re planning a spontaneous labour, induction or caesarean birth, you’ll receive balanced, evidence-based information to help you prepare for meeting your baby with confidence.

✨ Four comprehensive, midwife-led birth preparation classes.

🌿 The opportunity to create your own labour massage oil using beautiful Neil’s Yard Remedies products.

👶 A dedicated infant feeding workshop featuring expertly created content from Lactation Consultant Leeds.

📦 A thoughtfully curated Simply Birth course box, including your workbook, birth preparation resources and treats for your little one.

🤍 Access to my trusted network of carefully selected local birth and baby professionals, so you’ll know exactly where to find expert support throughout pregnancy, birth and beyond.

☕ The chance to meet other local parents-to-be, build lasting friendships and join us for a lovely post-baby reunion.

I can’t wait to welcome you and your birth partner to the beautiful Bambinis Play Café in Birkenshaw.

🍁 Autumn bookings are now open for November & December due dates.

Spaces are limited.

Book directly via my website or send me a message:

🌐 https://www.simplybirthbyanna.com/

Please feel free to tag any friends who are expecting this autumn 🤗❤️

12/07/2026

ANTENATAL CLASS TEACHER DILEMMA... 🤰⚽

England are through to the World Cup Semi-Finals... 🎉
..and then you realise your next antenatal class clashes with kick-off ..

Actually, informed by expectant daddy within class 😆

Fear not! 🙌

✨ We’ll cover everything needed spilling over into other classes if required.

⏰ We’ll wrap up a little earlier.

🏃‍♀️ You’ll have plenty of time to get home and cheer on England!

Supporting growing families and the Three Lions ❤️🦁

Can’t wait to see all my lovely couples next week - July Group 2026 🌸

⚽️ ❤️

11/07/2026

🍂 Autumn Simply Birth Classes .. bookings being taken!

Thoughtfully designed and led by myself, an experienced midwife, our Simply Birth course offers four beautifully curated classes to help you prepare for birth with confidence, whatever your birth journey may look like.

5 ⭐️ reviewed and well established in North Leeds for 5 years 💫

From spontaneous labour to induction and caesarean birth, you’ll receive balanced, evidence-based guidance to help you feel informed, empowered and ready to welcome your baby 🌸

Your experience includes:

✨ Four comprehensive classes, midwife-led.

🌸 An option to create your own massage oil for labour with Neil’s Yard Products.

👶🏼 A dedicated infant feeding session featuring beautifully created content from Lactation Consultant Leeds.

📦 A class course box including a Summary work book and treats for your baby.

⛑️ An optional fifth session with Mini First Aid, covering essential baby and child first aid for those early weeks and months ahead.

Simply Birth is designed to give you knowledge, confidence and lasting support as you prepare for parenthood - you await a warm welcome in a lovely coffee shop Little Leeds - Play Café ☕️ 🥐

🍁 Autumn dates are now available. We’d love to welcome you and your birth partner 🤗

Reach out through our social media pages or email through .com 🩷

04/05/2026

✨ New addition for Simply Birth ✨

I’m so pleased to be introducing a gentle and supportive new element to the comprehensive course - our Worry Circle 🧠 💛

This is a space where you can share any worries you may be carrying about pregnancy, labour, birth, or the parenting journey ahead.

You can share openly, or anonymously if you prefer whatever feels right for you.

Together, we’ll hold these thoughts without judgement… and then revisit them at the end of our last class. My hope is that by then, you’ll feel more supported, more informed, and more confident - with practical tools, resources, and a stronger sense of what’s available to you.

Because one of the most powerful things we discover?

You are not alone. So many others are feeling the same, or very similar, worries 💛

Simply sharing what’s on your mind can be the first step in acknowledging those feelings.

Being heard, supported, and surrounded by others on a similar journey can be incredibly empowering - helping to build confidence, self-belief, and trust in yourself.

This circle is about connection, reassurance, and reminding you that support is always there 💫

❤️

02/05/2026

.. This Summer 🦁 ☀️ 👶🏼 ❤️ …

Are you preparing to become a Grandmother?

OR Auntie/Honorary Auntie?

Becoming a Grandparent/Aunt is such an exciting time, but you can also increasingly worry if the advice you are giving from your own lived experience could be outdated?

Sometimes the answer maybe yes, other times no.

Do you worry about ‘stepping on toes’ .. perhaps seeming to ‘interfere’ when you just want to give all the love and support you can 💗💗

The Grandma Class will help update you with current, evidence-based maternity practices and recommendations for the cares of the new baby - filling you with confidence in your role to support your lovely family through their transition into parenthood 👶🏼💗

💫 Share your own birth experiences.

💫 Reflect and discover on what has changed in maternity practice and the services offered over the years for labour, birth, early parenting including infant-feeding advice.

💫 Learn what NEW mummy, daddy (second mummy) and baby can expect in terms of care and support when in labour and after birth?

💫 Learn about how midwives are encouraging of a post birth BABY MOON 🌙 …
. how you can support, protect and honour this beautiful and highly beneficial ritual that’s practiced globally 🌍 💗

💫 Learn why kissing the baby 💋 is not recommended initially by anyone other than mummy and daddy (always a hotly debated discussion on our antenatal classes) .. but the primitive urge you have to do this is well understood.

Course length 2.5 hours inclusive of a 20 minute break with a complimentary warm drink and cake ☕️🍰

Course Cost £40 individually or £60 to reserve two spaces - feel free to invite your daughter, second grandma, auntie, friend or your daughter-in-law to join you!

📍 Venue 🍰☕️

Date Sunday 5th July 9-12

You await a very warm welcome 🤗

Enquire through Facebook or Instagram Messenger or Email 👇

[email protected]

02/05/2026

📣 Simply Birth Summer 2025 Refresher Dates 🍉 💦

A Simply Birth refresher offers the perfect opportunity to revisit labour, birth and infant feeding in a calm, supportive space 🙌🏽

Designed for those who have had a baby before, this stand-alone session now includes updated guidance from a Lactation Consultant, covering all infant feeding options alongside a comprehensive labour and birth recap 👶🏼

Perfect for babies due July–October ☀️ 🍂

This relaxed and welcoming class includes:

🤍 Space to gently chat through previous birth and feeding experiences (only if you feel comfortable sharing.)
🧘🏻‍♀️ Practice your UP and DOWN breathing techniques, alongside optimal UFO positions and all pain relief options.
🔄 Discussion around VBAC, where relevant.
🌿 Insight into what may feel different this time.
🤱 Guidance on responsive feeding, positioning and attachment.
📚 Updates on what’s new and the support available to you.
🌸 Create your own aromatherapy massage oil for pregnancy, labour or birth.
🎁 Go home with a class box filled with helpful birth prep tools and relaxation goodies for you and baby post birth.

AND …

🤍 Connect with other couples through a dedicated class WhatsApp group.
👶 Attend a reunion session to regroup, with optional baby weigh and infant feeding support and advice if needed!

A warm, informative three-hour session to help you feel prepared, reassured and ready 🤗

📍 All held at the lovely Little Leeds 🥐 ☕️

💬 Enquire through the Simply Birth website or via social media📘 Facebook | 📷 Instagram

💫 Comprehensive Class availability from
July onwards ☀️

👵 Grandma Class availability early July.

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12/04/2026

🎫 Simply Birth Reunion 2026 babies so far 👶🏼 🌍

📣 January & February Classes, we’d love to see you next Sunday for a relaxed catch-up ☕️ 🍰

Come along to share experiences, connect again, and enjoy some time together - book free tickets through events page 🎫

There’ll also be optional baby weighing and feeding support available if you’d find that helpful 🤗

I can’t wait to see as many of you there as possible 💕

05/04/2026

Easter Joy ✨ ..

Anybody bump painting this Easter? 👆🤩

This time of year feels FULL of symbolism for pregnancy - new life, renewal, and the quiet magic of things beginning again 🌱 🌸

For those that celebrate Easter it can remind us of hope, transformation, and joyful new starts, which mirrors so beautifully the journey of pregnancy and birth 👶🏼

From the unseen growth and gentle changes of pregnancy, to the incredible moment a baby arrives, it’s a season of waiting, wonder, and finally, joy ✨

It’s such a special reminder that life is always renewing itself in the most amazing ways 🌍

Wishing lots of love to all who are celebrating today 🌸🐣

Beautiful Image 📸 🎨

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