HypnoBirthing Class Outline

HypnoBirthing® Class Outline:

UNIT #1: Building A Positive Expectancy:

  • Introduction
  • HypnoBirthing®
  • Rationale for Comfortable Birth
  • How the Uterus Works
  • What’s Wrong with Labor?
    °How Fear Affects Labor
    °Origin of Pain Concept
  • Hypnosis and Deep Relaxation/Creating Positive Birth Outcomes
  • HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD – 1 and 2

UNIT #2: Falling in Love with Your Baby/Preparing Mind & Body

  • HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD – 3 and 4
  • Pre-birth Parenting Techniques
  • DVD- What Babies Want
  • Relaxation and Visualization for Birthing
  • Rapid and Instant Relaxation Techniques
  • Breathing Techniques for Labor and Birthing
  • Progressive, Instant, and Deepening Techniques
  • Hypnotic Relaxation and Visualizations

UNIT #3: Getting Ready to Welcome your Baby

  • Looking at Your Estimated Due Date
  • Making Hospital, Home or Birthing Center Plans
  • Preparing the Body for Birthing
  • Light Touch Birthing Massage
  • HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD- 5 and 6
  • Preparing your Birth Preferences Sheets
  • When Baby is Ready
  • Avoiding Artificial Induction of Labor
  • Your Body Working for You And with You
  • Releasing Negative Emotions, Fears and Limiting Thoughts

UNIT #4: Overview of Childbirth–A Labor of Love

  • HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD- 7 and 8
  • Onset of Labor–Thinning and Opening Phase
  • Arriving At The Hospital
  • As Labor Moves Along
  • Birth Companion’s Role
  • If Labor Rests or Slows
  • Positions for Labor and Birthing
  • Protecting the Natural Birthing Experience
  • As Birthing Advances–Nearing Completion
  • Birth Rehearsal Imagery

UNIT# 5: Birthing–Breathing Love, Bringing Life

  • HypnoBirthing® DVD- Birth As We Know It
  • Mother Nears Completion–Thinning and Opening Phase Ends
  • Birth Explained Simply
  • Breathing Baby Down
  • Birth of the Placenta
  • Family Bonding
  • Forest Fantasy Metaphor

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