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WHAT'S INCLUDED?

  • 5 information-packed & interactive sessions

  • MP3 download card

  • Parent handout spiral notebook

  • Professionally written hypnosis scripts for your home practice

  • A set of birth prompts for your birth companion

  • Demonstration and practice of optimal birth positions

  • A guide to great pregnancy nutrition

  • Several deep relaxation techniques for use in daily life and during birthing

  • Special breathing techniques for use throughout labor and during birthing

  • ​A guide to successful breastfeeding and postpartum recovery

  • Support and guidance during your pregnancy, during labor and during your postpartum period. 

UNIT ONE

Setting the stage

  • Introduction to the remarkable HypnoBirthing philosophy

  • The History of 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

  • Why Birth Hypnosis?

  • Laws of the Mind that effect change

  • The vocabulary for calm and gentle birthing

  • Visualizing gentle births by viewing beautiful birthing videos

UNIT TWO

Prenatal Bonding + Preparing Your Mind and Body

  • Fetology:  the remarkable mind of your newborn baby

  • Prenatal bonding techniques

  • Navigating birthing options

  • Selecting the right care provider

  • Building your birth team

  • Rapid and instant self-relaxation techniques and deepening techniques

  • Breathing techniques for labor and birthing

  • Hypnotic relaxation and visualization

  • Preparing your body for birthing with nutrition and massage 

UNIT THREE

Self-hypnosis visualization and advanced deepening

  • Pregnancy Comforts: Daily Exercises, Movement & Spinning Babies

  • Supporting Baby in Optimal Fetal Positioning

  • Preparing Birth Preference Sheets

  • Labor & Birthing Visualizations

  • Deepening Hypnosis Techniques

  • Releasing negative emotions, fears and limiting thoughts

"This course was transformative for me. It gave me the knowledge and tools I needed to be empowered, excited, and confident in my pregnancy and birthing journey.  

I realized a lot of my fear came from lack of knowledge about the labor and birthing process. The course taught me that by mentally preparing I can more easily work with my body to bring my baby into the world in a calm and joyful way."

 ~Breanne

UNIT FOUR

Overview and summary of childbirth

  • Birth's perfect design

  • Birth explained simply

  • Onset of Labor – Thinning and Opening Phase

  • Hallmarks of labor

  • If labor pauses or rests –  tools for labor progression

  • The Role of the Birth Companion

  • Preparing your sacred birthing space

  • Protecting the natural birthing experience

  • Discussion of hospital policies: continuous fetal monitoring, cervical exams, induction 

  • Misconceptions about labor

  • Making informed decisions (BRAINS)

  • Birth rehearsal imagery

UNIT FIVE

Birthing – The final act and bonding

  • Answering the call to surrender

  • Moving into the birth phase

  • Positions for descent and birthing

  • Breathing baby down to birth

  • The Birth Matrix – nature's perfect design

  • Discussions on optimal cord clamping, fundal massage, active management of the placenta

  • First latch and placenta birth

  • The Birth Afterglow & Family bonding

  • The Fourth Trimester: Breastfeeding and Postpartum 

  • Birth as Medicine – Honoring the Postpartum Portal

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