Antenatal education, which includes childbirth education programs, parental education, prenatal and antenatal courses, and a variety of other prenatal and antenatal groups, is aimed at lowering pregnancy difficulties and enhancing the health and well-being of mother and child. Increasing evidence has highlighted the psychological and biologically driven processes that both men and women face during the transition to parenthood, as well as the importance of pregnancy and the immediate postnatal period in the health of the baby and the reduction of social and health inequalities.