Baby first aid in Australia barely existed as its own category until Tiny Hearts built it. We were the first to make it parent-first instead of workplace-first, and more than a decade later we're still the most reviewed and most trusted name in the country. That's not marketing. It's what happens when healthcare professionals who are also educational experts spend more than a decade teaching one thing better than anyone else.

So rather than ask you to take our word for it, we put five of Australia's best-known providers side by side, ours included, and pulled every price, duration, access period, review score and guarantee straight from each provider's own website.

All prices and details below were taken from each provider's website on 12 August 2026. Prices and policies change, so always check the provider's site before booking.

The quick comparison

The table shows reviews each provider publishes on their own site. Beyond ours, another 2,500 or so parents have reviewed Tiny Hearts on Google.

How we compared them

Price matters, but it's rarely the thing that matters most. We compared every provider on six things:

• Who teaches it: paramedics, paediatric nurses, midwives or first aid trainers. All are qualified. Their lens is different.
• Whether you'll actually finish it: a four-hour course you never complete prepares you less than a one-hour course you finish tonight.
• How long you can come back to it: skills fade, and new risks arrive with every milestone. Choking risk peaks when solids start, not when your little one is a newborn. Access length decides whether you can refresh when it counts.
• What other parents say: published review counts and scores, from the provider's own site only.
• What happens if it's not right for you: guarantees and refund policies, in writing.
• Where you can do it: Australia-wide or specific cities.

Tiny Hearts Education: the standout

Best for: almost every parent in Australia. The most reviewed courses in the country, lifetime access, and zero risk.

Tiny Hearts was founded in 2013 by Nikki Jurcutz, a former Advanced Life Support Paramedic with Ambulance Victoria, and her sister Rach, after Nikki attended too many emergencies where loving parents simply hadn't been taught what to do. We effectively created the parent-focused baby first aid category in Australia, and we've led it ever since.

What sets us apart is that we're not only healthcare professionals. We're educational experts too. Knowing how to save a life and knowing how to teach someone else to save a life are two different skills, and we're built on both. That combination is why more than 100,000 parents have now trained with Tiny Hearts, and why over 2,000 little lives have been saved by parents who did.

• Price: $150 for the online Baby + Child First Aid Course. In-person courses run from $210 in major cities around Australia.
• Format: online, fully self-paced, on any device. Watch it in one sitting or in five-minute chunks during a contact nap. Or join an in-person course with hands-on manikin practice.
• Length: 1 to 1.5 hours of video across six short modules. Deliberately short, because a finished course beats an abandoned one.
• Access: lifetime. Refresh before solids, before crawling, before daycare, whenever you need it. Most providers can't match this.
• Coverage: CPR, choking, allergies and anaphylaxis, fevers and seizures, burns, head injuries, poisoning, drowning, bites and stings, red flags and when to call 000. Covers newborns up to age 8. Includes 9 downloadable bonus resources.
• Reviews: 4.9 out of 5 stars from 147 verified reviews on the online course, 5.0 stars from more than 1,400 reviews across our in-person courses, and around 2,500 more reviews on Google. All up, more than 3,500 parents have taken the time to review us, the largest review base of any provider in this comparison by a distance.
• Guarantee: 100% money-back. If you complete the course and don't feel it was valuable, you get a refund. No one else on this list publishes a guarantee like it.

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Built by former paramedic Nikki Jurcutz, finished in about an hour, yours for life, and backed by a 100% money-back guarantee.

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★★★★★  4.9 from 3,500+ parents

“I chose to invest in Tiny Hearts courses instead of spending money on fancy baby clothes or nursery gadgets, and it was one of the best decisions we’ve made as parents.”

Flavia M. G. · verified reviewer

Good to know: the certificate is a certificate of completion, not a nationally accredited workplace qualification. If you need HLTAID012 for a childcare job, our sister company Hero delivers it across Australia.

The other providers at a glance

Every provider below is a genuine, qualified option, and we've linked each so you can compare in full. Here's the short version of where each one fits.

• CPR Kids: a solid choice for families in NSW or Queensland who specifically want a face-to-face class, taught by paediatric nurses and midwives. Online access runs for 12 months, and pricing is available through their booking portal.
• Australian Red Cross: a household-name charity with a $110 self-paced online course. It's designed to be completed within 30 days, so it suits a deadline more than ongoing refreshers.
• Emergcare: a well-loved Victorian provider, strongest as an in-person Melbourne experience ($140 for a 3 hour 15 minute session), and the only one here to offer a course in Mandarin.
• Paeds Education: run by paediatric intensive care nurses and anchored in Ballarat, a genuinely local option for regional Victoria.

All four are reputable. The difference is reach, depth and reassurance: none matches Tiny Hearts on published reviews, lifetime access or a full money-back guarantee, and none has trained as many parents or been part of as many saves.

What actually matters when you choose

Here's what her years on the road as a paramedic taught Nikki, and what we'd tell you even if you never buy from us:

In an emergency, you don't rise to the occasion. You fall to the level of your training.

That means the best course on paper is the one that actually gets into your hands and stays there. Three things drive that more than anything else:

• You have to finish it. Many courses run 2 to 4 hours. If you're pregnant and exhausted, or feeding a newborn every three hours, that's a real barrier. It's why we built ours as six short modules totalling about an hour to an hour and a half. Finished beats perfect.
• You have to be able to come back. Your little one's risks change with every milestone. Choking risk peaks between 6 months and 4 years, right when most parents' vigilance is fading. Lifetime access means the course is still there the night before their first mouthful of food.
• Someone has to stand behind it. We offer a 100% money-back guarantee because after 100,000+ parents and 3,500+ reviews sitting between 4.9 and 5.0 stars, we know how this course lands. Complete it, and if you don't feel it was valuable, you get your money back.

The parents are the heroes of every story we've ever been sent. More than 2,000 of them have written to tell us their training was used to save their little one's life. That's the number we're proudest of, and it's the real reason we can publish a comparison like this with every provider's best foot forward.

FAQs about baby first aid courses

How much does a baby first aid course cost in Australia?
Most parent-focused courses sit between $110 and $160, with in-person options running up to around $210. Watch for GST: some providers list prices excluding it.

Is an online baby first aid course as good as an in-person one?
They do different jobs. In-person courses give you manikin practice, which is valuable. Online courses give you repetition: you can rewatch the choking module the week solids start, at 2am, as many times as you need. The best course is the one you'll finish and revisit, because skills you can't recall under pressure don't help your little one.

Do I need an accredited baby first aid course?
Only if you need it for work, such as a childcare role requiring HLTAID012 (our sister company Hero delivers this across Australia). For parents, grandparents and carers, a non-accredited parent-focused course covers the same life-saving skills without the workplace assessment requirements.

When should I do a baby first aid course?
Before your baby arrives, ideally. Newborn life doesn't hand you a spare afternoon, and the skills matter from day one. The second most important moment is before starting solids, when choking risk rises.

How long do first aid skills last?
Skills fade without refreshing, and first aid guidelines are updated over time. That's why access length matters so much: a course you can revisit at each milestone keeps your training current for the years your little one needs it most.

You've now seen every option side by side. If lifetime access, a 4.9-star rating from the country's biggest review base and a 100% money-back guarantee sound like your kind of peace of mind, our Baby + Child First Aid Course is ready when you are. Not sure which course fits your stage? Our 60-second quiz will point you to the right one.

Every fact in this comparison was sourced from each provider's own website on 12 August 2026, and re-checked by our team before publishing. Prices and policies change. Always confirm details on the provider's site before booking.