Mignon
with the Basel Children's Trust
Pre- and postnatal education and support

Family Resources and Help

The following pages include details resources to help Anglophone parents in the Basel area. They are not personal recommendations, but come from suggestions made from other parents and from professional bodies.

This is an ever growing list so please do help us build it. If there are other details you would like to have included please just let me know so I may add them in. If you have recommendations, please do share them also. Thank you.

At the end of this section are handouts from the prenatal courses which may be useful as a library of information. This section is growing slowly - let me know if there are any topics you want urgently and I will prioritise them!

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Upcoming courses

Prenatal Relax, Stretch and Breathe

Gentle prenatal yoga, combined with discussion time, social support, breathing and relaxation techniques and regular, with partner, skills for labour sessions

Tuesdays 18.15-19.45 at the Kindermusik studio, second floor, Leimgrubenweg 9, 4053 Basel

Day time sessions also possible, please get in touch to discuss

25 CHF per session

More details here:

Relax Stretch and Breathe

To reserve a place in an upcoming RSB session please use this registration form:

https://forms.gle/MuJJ2XRndYtoDFyw7

Connected and Contented Baby Sessions

Connected and Contented Baby sessions run every Friday 9.30-10.30 at the Magical Café in Felix Kampfplatz.

These sessions combine Baby Yoga, Baby Massage and Baby Signing for a wonderful session that builds connections within the babies' brains, their bodies, with their caregivers and with each others. Suitable for babies and toddlers of all ages.

To reserve a place in a session please use this form:
https://forms.gle/kTDufPNcTsudn1Vr7

Sessions cost 25 CHF per session. Book and pay for multiple sessions of Mother and Baby Yoga and/or Connected and Contented Baby sessions with a special price:
3 sessions 70CHF

4 sessions 90 CHF

5 sessions 110 CHF

6 sessions 130 CHF

Mama and Baby Yoga

This five week postnatal and baby yoga course helps you reconnect with yourself, with your body and your breath. Postnatal yoga helps you to develop physically and mentally, finding strength, flexibility, relief and rest in your body, your breath and your mind.

At the same time our baby yoga asanas help your baby deepen their understanding of what and where their body is, how they can currently move and what potential their bodies hold and ways they are separate from you and ways they are connected to you. Asanas are adapted to suit babies across the age range, developing confidence, range, shape and movement as each baby grows and changes

Mignon Mama and Baby Yoga, for pre mobile babies (from around six weeks to starting to crawl). This is a five week course, with each class building on the previous class so regular attendance makes a real difference.

If you have a baby that is already mobile (crawling or walking) and you would like to join a Mama and Baby Yoga series with them please get in touch with me.

Block 1: 100chf for five classes or 25chf per class if booked as individual classes

Thursday 30 January 14.00-15.00

Thursday 6 February 14.00-15.00

Thursday 13 February 14.00-15.00

Thursday 27 February 14.00-15.00

Thursday 6 March 14.00-15.00

Block 2: 100chf for five classes or 25chf per class if booked as individual classes

Thursday 20 March 14.00-15.00

Thursday 27 March 14.00-15.00

Thursday 3 April 14.00-15.00

Thursday 10 April 14.00-15.00

Thursday 24 April 14.00-15.00

This course costs 100CHF for five session block or 25 CHF per session.

Register here: https://forms.gle/hHLHZVwuNKhykW9G8

The course is held at the Kindermusik studio, 2nd floor, Leimgrubenweg 9C, 4053. All materials and snacks are provided.

Join our Whatsapp community for class updates, support and community: details on the registration form.
For more information about prenatal and postnatal classes please see www.mignonbaby.com

Preparing for Parenthood antenatal courses

One to one and small group classes held regularly throughout the year, these classes give your family the support, resources, information and time to understand and plan what you want and need as you become parents.

Sessions typically include topics such as:

Normal process of birth and the Swiss maternity and postnatal care system, including different birth routes, pain management, caesarean birth

Informed decision making and support in developing plans for birth and postnatal period that suits you and your family

Skills and resources for all members of the family to facilitate birth and the postnatal period

Understanding and techniques for successful and well supported breastfeeding, including managing feeding in the family dynamic and when returning to work

Resource, techniques and support for all the family during the fourth trimester and beyond, including use of baby slings