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Antenatal Classes

A course of evening classes which are offered on a Sunday or Tuesday, for the duration of four weeks. The classes are conducted in a positive and informal environment by our experienced midwife. Topics which are covered include; pregnancy, coping skills for labour and birth, active birth, breathing and massage, pain management, challenges of labour, feeding your baby and caring for a newborn. The course is very popular so advanced booking is recommended. Birth partners are encouraged to attend. It is a great opportunity to meet other couples who are expecting a baby in Dubai.

Mrs. Dru Campell

Dru successfully completed a Bachelor of Nursing Course in 1993 in Ballarat, Australia. She then worked primarily in the area of general surgery, including gynaecology and urology. In 2000, Dru went on to successfully complete a hospital-based midwifery course, at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, Western Australia. She then relocated to the United Kingdom whereby she completed additional studies in order to become registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Dru then worked as a midwife, primarily on Labour Ward at Southend Hospital for a period of three years. She then moved to London where she was employed as a senior midwife on the Birth Centre at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital.

The Birth Centre is a midwifery-led unit which cares for women and their families during pregnancy, labour and birth and during the postnatal period. The Birth Centre focuses on the promotion of physiological birth and normality. Dru was responsible for the co-ordination and facilitation of the hospital’s ‘Active Birth Classes’ which proved extremely popular and continue to be so today. She was also present at many home births and worked as a community midwife during her three years in London. Dru is currently undertaking a post graduate Bachelor of Midwifery Course with Thames Valley University in London. She holds many certificates and competencies in the area of maternity care including the Neonatal Life Support Course, conducted by the Resuscitation Council of the United Kingdom.

Dru lives in Dubai with her husband Colin who works for Emirates Engineering. She enjoys travelling, reading and the cinema.