HYPNOBIRTHING
HypnoBirthing® Classes are taught in a format of five,
2 1/2-hour classes.
The five classes include the book HypnoBirthing® – the Mongan Method, a CD, an MP3, and a packet of supplemental material.
These unique childbirth education classes offer gentle birthing techniques for the mother-to-be and her birthing companion.
You will learn relaxation and visualization techniques that will allow you to welcome your baby in a calm, gentle, and safe manner.
What You Will Learn in HypnoBirthing® Classes
Unit 1: Building A Positive Expectancy
- Introduction to the remarkable HypnoBirthing® philosophy
- The history of women and birthing
- Why and how you can have an easier, more comfortable, and safer birth
- How nature perfectly designed women’s bodies to give 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
Unit 2: Falling in Love with Your Baby/Preparing Mind and Body
- 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
Unit 3: Getting Ready to Welcome Your Baby
- 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
Unit 4: Overview of Birthing – A Labor of Love
- 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’s prompts and activities
- As labor advances – birthing with your baby
- Protecting the natural birthing experience
- Birth rehearsal imagery
Unit 5: Birth – Breathing Love – Bringing Life
- Moving into birthing
- Positions for descent and birthing
- Breathing baby down to birth
- Baby moves to the breast
- Family bonding with your baby