Chris Duret - Birth & Beyond

Chris was our NCT course leader and was fantastic at taking us through everything and getting us ready for birth. She even made it fun despite it being on Zoom! I then attended mum and baby yoga for 10 months or so postnatally which she runs. It's a brilliant class due to Chris, I made friends with other mums and was being active at the same time. She's a great teacher would 100% recommend

Chris' pregnancy yoga helped me focus on my breathing and continue to remain active but relaxed right up until my son's birth. Would recommend this to anyone!

We had Chris as our NCT teacher, what a fantastic teacher! Her passion and enthusiasm is there for everything! She did brilliantly at putting us all at ease and creating a brilliant learning environment for everyone. We came away full of knowledge and also with new friends. Her support doesn't stop there either, she has reassured my wife and I that she is always there to support us whatever we need once baby arrives and just knowing we have someone so knowledgeable there to support us we definitely feel supported and at ease! Not only do I recommend NCT but definitely recommend it with Chris!

When I had to give up running due to morning sickness I came across Chris in my search for an alternative exercise regime. I started her prenatal yoga sessions over zoom from around 18 weeks pregnant and continued until my little one arrived in August. The skills she taught us definitely helped me in labour and I loved having something to look forward to every week which was for me. Since birth Chris has also been my rock on post natal support when breastfeeding wasn’t working out for us, baby massage which we have signed up to for a second round as well as mum and baby yoga which is such a welcoming and friendly space. I cannot recommend her enough and feel lucky to have found her.

Chris ran our NCT classes, and it's been SUCH a privilege to attend them with her. She's great at getting you to think about all aspects of birth and baby, gently questioning any preconceived notions you might have without pushing an agenda herself. Alongside that, she's warm, funny and personable, and I look forward to seeing her again once our baby arrives. She's been generous and open with her offers of continuing to support through our next stages. Thank you, Chris!

We had Chris as our NCT teacher in January 2022 and couldn’t recommend her more highly. Despite our classes moving online at the last minute, Chris made them feel interactive, gave us lots of opportunities to get to know our classmates and we came away feeling positive about birth and well-informed. I really appreciated Chris’ honesty and found her humour and passion extremely infectious - We were lucky to have such a great teacher, thank you for everything!

My husband & I did the NCT course with Chris as the course leader and she was great (and very quirky in a wonderful way) the course was so informative and we have been recommending it to anyone who wants a baby or is expecting one!I also did the 4 week baby massage course, which was really good- we learnt lots of different strokes and ways to helped relieve wind, etc.My daughter would always go into a lovely deep sleep afterwards!

We decided to book onto a NCT course off of recommendations from friends. We were both quite nervous, however from day 1, our teacher Chris made us feel so at ease. Chris is super knowledgable and had a fantastic way at keeping us engaged. We found all the sessions so informative and learnt a lot. I find it a huge comfort also, that Chris will be on hand once we’ve had the baby, should we have any breast feeding issues, I wasn’t expecting this. Thanks again Chris and I’m really looking forward to starting baby yoga with you in the new year.

We booked onto NCT and Chris was our teacher for these sessions. We went having been told that NCT is only good for meeting other couples to go through this journey with. How wrong they were! Chris made the sessions fun, so informative and as interactive as possible whilst remaining Covid safe. We never felt like any question was too silly or any birth preference was the wrong choice. Her openness, enthusiasm, experience and knowledge meant we feel so much more confident in the imminent arrival of our little one. I think it also helped us bond as a group.It's also a relief to know that Chris will be there to support us once baby is born with breastfeeding and that she offers things like baby massage too.Thank you Chris! We will miss the classes with you.