Course Outline

    • Introduction to the HypnoBirthing® Philosophy

    • How Your Thoughts and Beliefs Affect Labor and Birth

    • How You Can Have a Safer More Comfortable Birth 

    • Your Bodies Perfect Design for Birth 

    • Promoting the Natural Birth Hormones

    • The 5 Tools for a Comfortable and Effective Labor

    • Calm Breathing

    • Surge Breathing for the First Stage of Labor

    • Bonding with Baby in the Womb

    • Rapid and Instant Self-Relaxation and deepening

    • Hypnotic Relaxation and Visualization

    • The Amazing Female Pelvis

    • Exercises for Pregnancy and Birth

    • PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISE

    • Preparing Birth Preference Sheets (Birth Plan)

    • Selecting Your Birth Team

    • Should You Hire A Doula?

    • Light Touch Labor Massage

    • Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy

    • Birth Breathing Vs Pushing

    • Light Touch Labor Massage

    • Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy

    • Achieving A Peaceful Birthing 

    • Releasing negative emotions and fears

    • Helping your baby move into the Ideal Position

    • Birth Companion Deepening Exercises

    • Perineal Massage

    • Symptoms Not to be Ignored

    • As your Birth Time Approaches

    • Onset of Labor – Thinning and Opening Phase

    • Birth Stages Explained Simply

    • Natural Ways to Stimulate Labor

    • Birth Imagery

    • Practice Labor and Signs of Early Labor

    • When to Go to the Hospital/Birthing Center

    • Working Well with the Birth Facility Staff

    • Common Hospital Procedures

    • Birth Companion Guide to assisting laboring mom

    • Moving into Birthing

    • Following your Natural Birthing Instincts

    • Easing Back Labor

    • Positions for Descent and Birthing

    • Breathing Baby Down to Birth

    • Baby Moves to the Breast

    • Birthing the Placenta

    • Family Bonding with your Baby

    • BreastFeeding