Days are built around prenatal yoga and childbirth education, with the rest of the team filling in the practical side. Ingeborg teaches the yoga and leads the birth preparation sessions, covering what happens in labour and how to prepare for it. Sarah's workshops give you tools to approach childbirth with calm and confidence, and she is around with her camera if you want maternity photographs taken during the week.

Edith handles feeding. She is a nurse with 15 years' experience and a mother of two, now specialising in breastfeeding support and working towards her international IBCLC certification. Her sessions are part teaching, part open floor — a space to ask the questions you might feel awkward asking elsewhere. Anna offers massage treatments, drawing on 20 years of experience and training at the Holistic Massage Academy in the Netherlands, adapted to you and your bump.

Danne cooks plant-based meals for the group. The kitchen is built around vegetables, whole ingredients and colour rather than imitation meat, and she treats cooking as something done with attention rather than rushed. The menu changes with what is in season and good at the time.

What separates this from a general pregnancy yoga week is the number of specialists in the room. Six people run the programme, and most of them have worked with expectant parents for years — as doulas, as a nurse, as a massage therapist. The group is small enough that you can ask any of them something directly rather than sitting in a lecture.

The retreat is designed for solo attendees, and past guests describe the group itself as one of the things they took home — a community of women at the same stage. The setting is quiet and the rooms are described by a past guest as comfortable and peaceful, which matters when you are carrying a baby and sleeping is already harder than usual.

What's included

- Accommodation on site for the retreat - Prenatal yoga sessions with Ingeborg - Childbirth education workshops - Doula-led workshops with Sarah - Breastfeeding support sessions with Edith - Plant-based meals cooked by Danne - Access to the full team of six specialists

What's not included

- Travel to and from the retreat - Travel insurance - Massage treatments, unless confirmed as part of your package - Maternity photography, unless confirmed as part of your package - Personal expenses

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