Course Outline

Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnosis is a 6 week COMPLETE childbirth education course! The classes are each 3 hours long. You can see a course outline here or read it below:

Class #1: Introduction to Hypnobabies:

• Introduction to Hypnobabies’ Philosophies and Positive Mindset 
• Pregnancy Anatomy and Physiology 
• Belief Systems; The Power of Words and How They Affect Us
• How Your Mind Works – The Conscious and Subconscious
• The Mind/Body Connection
• What Hypnosis is and is NOT
• Demonstrations of Hypnosis
• How Fear Affects Comfort and Length of Labor
• Fear Clearing for Childbirth
• The Importance of Daily Birthing Affirmations
• The Gifts Your Body Gives You – Your Beautiful Uterus and How it Works
• Creating Your “Mental Lightswitch”
• Partner Communication Exercise and the “Contract of Trust”
• Hypnosis Script: “Learning Self-Hypnosis”. (Entering hypnosis on your own and controlling all sensations in your body.)

Class 2: Staying Healthy and Low Risk:

• Importance of Diet in Pregnancy
• Nutritional Guidelines
• The High Protein Advantage
• Eggs, Salt and Calcium in Pregnancy
• Drinking Water for Two
• Avoidance of Harmful Substances
• Safe and Comfortable Prenatal Sleeping and Resting Positions
• Natural Comfort Measures for Pregnancy
• Introduction of the Stages of Labor including the “Baby-Kindness” Stage
• New Baby Sensitivity Through Bonding
• Using Hypnosis for Pregnancy Discomforts and Health
• Prenatal Exercises for Birth
• Birth Partner Assistance
• Hypnosis Script: “Creating Anesthesia” (Modifying your hypnosis to include Hypno-anesthesia and “Eyes-Open Childbirth Hypnosis”.)

Class 3: Your Options in Birthing:

• Birth Partner’s “Relax and Feel Confident” CD
• The Importance of Making Excellent Birthing Decisions; the “Big Secrets” 
• Detailed Childbirth Choices – Risks, Benefits and Alternatives for Common Procedures
• Getting Informed Consent
• Hospital Forms and Your Rights
• Questions for Caregivers – Consumer Issues and Positive Communication
• Creating the Birth Plan of your Dreams
• “Big” Babies; Packing Your Birth Bag
• Touring Your Place of Birth; Benefits of a Professional Labor Assistant
• “Hypno-Doulas”
• Introduction of the book “Back Labor NO More”
• Hypnosis Script: “Hypnotic Childbirth # 1 – Birth Hypnosis Tools” (Learning cues for deepening hypnosis and anesthesia instantly.)

Class 4: The Onset of Labor:

• Your “Guess Date” and Normal Length of Pregnancy
• Preparing for your Birthing Day
• Signs of Birthing Beginning
• Amniotic Membranes Breaking – Your Safe Choices
• True vs. “False” Labor
• How to Time Your Birthing Waves (contractions)
• Your Birth Log
• When to go to the Birth Place
• Automatic Comfort and Relaxation on “The Drive” and Arrival at Your Place of Birth (if out of your home
• Hypno-Guardians; Nurses – the Unsung Heroes
• Using Hypnosis for Comfort During Internal Exams
• Dilation, Effacement, Position and Station of Baby; The Beautiful Progress of Labor, Including Fast , Average and Slow or Stalled Labor
• Artificial Induction and Natural Induction Techniques
• Creating a Safe and Serene Birthing Environment
• Nausea Elimination
• Optimum Fetal Positioning.
• Hypnosis Script: “Hypnotic Childbirth # 2 – Deepening Your Hypno-Anesthesia” (Birth Partner Cues for instantly deepening hypnosis and moving anesthesia around to different areas of your body.)

Class 5: Birth Partners, Transformation and Birth:

• Birth Partners Training: Your Role During Pregnancy and Birthing Reviewed
• How a Labor Assistant Can Help the Hypno-Partner
• 4 Pages of Verbal Birthing Cues
• Physical Comfort Techniques 
• The Change of Plans Hypnosis Script
• Late First Stage Labor – Transition…or “Transformation”
• Hypnosis Deepening techniques
• Trusting in Your Body, Your Mind and your Baby
• Protecting the Hypno-Mom!
• Effective Positions for Birthing
• Benefits and Use of the Birth Ball
• Exhale Pushing and Avoiding the “Ring of Fire” with Hypnosis
• Safe Birthing of the Placenta
• Cord Traction, Pitocin, Membranes Releasing, Post-Partum Choices
• Review: Hypnobabies Tools, Using Your Mental Lightswitch, Fear Clearing for Childbirth
• Avoiding a Cesarean Section
• Hypnosis practice: Using Hypnobabies in the Moment!
• Full practice of our Hypnobabies Lightswitch techniques, Peace cue, Release cue, Birth Partner’s cues, and Moving Hypno-Anesthesia around Your Body.

Class 6: Birthing Your Baby and Beyond:

• Hypnosis Script: “Visualize (Create!) Your Birth” (a mental practice of labor and birthing that creates your childbirth experience for you exactly as you desire it to be.)
• Followed by our In-depth Birthing Rehearsal using all Hypnobabies Techniques, Birth Balls, Walking, Positional Changes and Eyes Open Childbirth Hypnosis where our Hypno-Moms and Birth Partners practice their Hypnobabies cues and techniques together, in hypnosis, culminating with “giving birth” using Hypno-Anesthesia.
• New Baby Care: Baby Kindness, Apgar Scores, Normal Newborn Appearance, and Choices for Baby’s Care including Hospital and Homebirth Newborn Procedures, Bathing..or Not?, Vaccinations, Circumcision and Rooming In. A Good Start with Breastfeeding, Latching, Non-Schedules, BF Resources, Attachment Parenting Information, Slings and Carriers, and much more!