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The HypnoBirthing®
Premise
For most of
their lives, women have been inundated with the negative stories
of other women’s birth experiences. Everyone, from their
mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, friends, and even strangers,
wants to tell them the horrors of giving birth. They have been
conditioned to believe that excruciating pain is associated with
labor; and because of this, women today hold an unprecedented
fear of giving birth. This extreme fear causes their bodies to
become tense, and that tension prohibits their bodies from
easily performing a normal physiological function. The result
is exactly what they feared most--long, painful birthing or
unnecessary intervention.
People who are
drawn to this method of childbirth have long been searching for
a way to give birth confidently and as calmly, safely, and
gently as possible, whether they have chosen to birth in a
hospital, a birthing center or at home. Until HypnoBirthing,
this kind of birthing almost seemed unattainable for the
general population.
Through a very
simple program of self-hypnosis and education, healthy, low-risk
women, as well as women who need medical assistance because of
special circumstances, learn to dismiss fear-based stories,
misinformation, and birthing myths; and they are helped to see
birth as normal. They learn to trust that their bodies know how
to bring their babies into the world in the calm and gentle way
that Nature intended.
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I’ve been a Labor &
Birthing nurse for 17 years; and after attending
HypnoBirthings, I’ll never look at birth in the
same light. It’s incredible.
- Judy Richardson, RN
Traveling Nurse |
HypnoBirthing®
Practitioners
HypnoBirthing
Practitioners are highly qualified birthing professionals who
have distinguished themselves through education, experience,
motivation, and dedication to the principles and philosophy of
HypnoBirthing®
and
mother-directed birthing.
Additionally, each must meet the requirements as set down by
the Executive Board of the HypnoBirthing Institute. Your close
attention to the course evaluation will ensure that this remains
so.
To locate a
HypnoBirthing® childbirth educator near you, click on
Practitioner
Directory
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.
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 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
Unit
2: Falling in Love
with Your Baby/Preparing Mind & 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: An
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 |
