Session 1 - Discovering HypnoBirthing® for easier, more comfortable birthing
- The HypnoBirthing® philosophy
- Introduction to principles of self-hypnosis for birthing.
- Breathing for labor: Sleep Breathing, Slow Breathing, Breathing your baby down.
- How the mind determines the body's response
- Class exercises
- What's wrong with labor - Why it hurts; why it doesn't have to
- How fear affects the length and discomfort of labor
- HypnoBirthing ® films of labor and birth
Session 2 -
Prenatal Bonding
- Preparing Your Mind and Body for Birthing
- HypnoBirthing® film
- A Mother's Conversation with Her Unborn Child
- Rainbow Relaxation cd and script
- Breathing for labor: Sleep Breathing, Slow Breathing, Breathing your baby down
- Rapid progressive relaxation/deepening techniques for labor
- Visualizations for labor
- Learning to maintain comfort and eliminate pain
Session 3 - Getting ready to welcome your baby
- HypnoBirthing® film
- Composing your birth plan
- Making hospital, home, or birthing center plans
- Early signals of labor
- How your body works with you and for you
- Achieving a natural onset of labor, free of drugs or intervention
- Releasing limiting emotions and fear
- Avoiding episiotomy -- perineal massage -- favorable labor positions
Session 4 - Birthing -- Breathing love; bringing life
- HypnoBirthing ® film
- The three stages of labor
- The birthing companion's integral role in labor
- Settling in at the hospital
- How labor proceeds
- Comfort measures through labor
- Meeting a slowed or stalled labor
- Breathing your baby down through transition to birthing
- Second stage breathing and pushing techniques for smooth birthing
- Stage III labor - Postnatal bonding of parents with baby - birthing of the placenta
Session 5 - Overview of Class Series - In Service Guest Speakers
- Birthing Video
- Review Breathing techniques and various scripts.
- Refresher of Positioning.
- Guest Speaker (TBD)
