HypnoBirthing Classes for Gentle Birthing
For the Mother-To-Be and her Birthing Companion
- Learn Relaxation Techniques so that you can give your baby a welcome that is calm, gentle, and safe.
- Achieve birth fulfillment–awake and alert–in a totally relaxed state of mind and body.
- HypnoBirthing statistically has shorter births, fewer medical interventions, fewer surgical births, and greater birth satisfaction
What You Will Learn in HypnoBirthing® Classes
HypnoBirthing® Classes are taught in a format of five, 2 1/2-hour classes. If you are very near to your birthing time, occasionally your Practitioner can make special arrangements for individual classes with you.
Building A Positive Expectancy – Unit 1
- Introduction to the remarkable HypnoBirthing® philosophy
- The History of Women and Birthing
- Why and how you can have an easier, more comfortable, and safer birthing
- How Nature perfectly designed women’s bodies to birth
- How to assist, rather than resist, your natural birthing instincts
- The vocabulary for calm and gentle birthing
- Visualizing gentle births by viewing beautiful birthing videos
Falling in Love with Your Baby/Preparing Mind & Body – Unit 2
- The remarkable mind of your newborn baby—Prenatal bonding techniques
- Rapid and instant self-relaxation techniques and deepening techniques
- Breathing techniques for labor and birthing
- Hypnotic relaxation and visualization
- Selecting the right care provider
- The Birth companion’s role in birthing
- Preparing your body for birthing with massage and toning
Getting Ready to Welcome your Baby – Unit 3
- Preparing Birth Preference Sheets
- Preparing the Body for Birthing
- Light Touch Labor Massage
- Your body working for and with you
- Avoiding artificial induction and achieving a natural start to labor
- Releasing negative emotions, fears and limiting thoughts.
An Overview of Birthing – A Labor of Love – Unit 4
- Onset of Labor – Thinning and Opening Phase
- Birth explained simply
- Settling in at the hospital or birthing center
- Preparing for home birth – or baby’s choice of birth
- As labor moves along – passing time through labor
- Hallmarks of labor
- If labor rests or slows – Companion’sprompts and activities
- As labor advances – birthing with your baby
- Protecting the natural birthing experience
- Birth rehearsal imagery
Birth, Breathing Love, Bringing Life – Unit 5
- Moving into birthing
- Positions for descent and birthing
- Breathing baby down to birth
- Baby moves to the breast
- Family bonding with your baby