Mom’s Directory · Pregnancy & new baby
From six-week evening groups to one-day workshops, private classes at home, online courses and free classes: here are 10 places running antenatal classes around Cape Town.
Updated October 2026 · 6 min read
When to plan: Courses here suggest starting around 28–30 weeks and finishing at least a month before your due date. Popular evening groups fill up, so book in your second trimester.
Prices and times change, so confirm when you book.
Bowwood Road, Claremont
✓ Mom-Vouched
A birth and parent-preparation course with a choice of format: four Thursday evenings or one full weekend. The price covers you and your birth partner, with lunch, tea and snacks, and your first newborn consultation at Bowwood Baby Clinic.
Rondebosch and Hout Bay
✓ Mom-Vouched 💛 Fellow mom biz
Tasha or Melissa run the six-week evening course, which includes a free six-week baby check and vaccines for your newborn. If evenings don't suit you, Loudene's condensed course runs over a Saturday and Sunday morning. The clinic recommends starting around 28–30 weeks, and medical-aid reimbursement depends on your plan.
Before you book: The clinic also runs the course with Peak Family Practice in Hout Bay, on six Wed evenings, 6:30–8:30pm, from 21 October to 25 November. Peak Family Practice →
Newlands and Mouille Point
✓ Mom-Vouched
Heather teaches the same five-week course at two venues: Kelvin Grove in Newlands and South Seas in Mouille Point. It covers labour, pain relief, birth interventions, feeding and early parenting, in a class of 10–16 couples. Aim to finish at least a month before your due date.
The Care Collective, Tokai
✓ Mom-Vouched
A midwife-led six-week evening course with Megan Benn. Her support carries on after the birth too, with a postnatal home visit, breastfeeding support and baby massage classes.
Before you book: The 2026 classes are fully booked. WhatsApp Megan on 083 564 1671 to book a 2027 course; she asks parents not to book online.
Durbanville and Loevenstein
Antenatal and first-aid courses in Durbanville, with a second branch in Loevenstein. Once your baby arrives, Nurturenest also runs mommy-and-me classes, plus solids and baby-massage courses.
Dorp Street, Panorama
One Saturday covering pregnancy, local birth options, labour, interventions and pain relief, caesarean birth and recovery, feeding and newborn care. Sr Amanda Lindeque, a midwife, teaches it. A light lunch, a goody bag and notes are included, and medical-aid reimbursement depends on your plan.
Roseland Street, Rondebosch
Weekend group classes with Emma Numanoglu, a registered nurse, midwife and IBCLC lactation consultant. If you'd rather go one-on-one, she also offers private one-hour sessions. Confirm the next dates and current rate when you book.
Your home, City Bowl & surrounds
The Nannie Agency coordinates a private two-hour antenatal class in the comfort of your own home. Email natasha@thenannieagency.co.za for more information.
Online
Charlene Yared West's self-paced hypnobirthing app has more than 250 minutes of video, relaxation audio, and breathing and birth-partner guidance, including preparation for a planned caesarean. The price includes ongoing access to a post-birth WhatsApp group. Charlene also offers virtual birth-planning sessions and Cape Town doula support separately.
Retreat, Mitchells Plain, Gugulethu, Mowbray and other public maternity facilities
Free ten-week childbirth-education classes covering pregnancy health, labour, breastfeeding, nutrition and newborn care. The Zoe Project also provides counselling, birth companions, postnatal support and practical help for vulnerable mothers. Contact your nearest Zoe Centre for the current location and dates.
Also listed in the directory.
How to choose
A good course walks you and your birth partner through the end of pregnancy, the stages of labour, pain relief and interventions, caesarean birth, and the first weeks at home: feeding, sleep, nappies and when to call the clinic.
Most are run by midwives, registered nurses or lactation consultants. Group classes add something a book cannot: other couples due at the same time, and often a WhatsApp group that outlasts the course.
Questions parents ask
Group courses for couples mostly cost R2,100–R3,500, one-day courses about R1,200, and online courses from R650. The Zoe Project's classes at public maternity facilities are free.
Some plans reimburse part of the cost or include an online course. Check with your scheme before you book.
Yes, if they can. Most courses are priced per couple, and the labour and newborn sessions are as much for birth partners as for you.
Mom's Directory is an information resource, not medical advice. Speak to your midwife or doctor about your own pregnancy.
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