Course Outline

Unit 1: Creating and maintaining a positive mindset

Unit 1: Creating and maintaining a positive mindset

Unit 1: Creating and maintaining a positive mindset

Introduction to the positive mindset of hypnobirthing
How our brain is wired to birth
The role of our caregivers
Mind/body connection
What is self-hypnosis and how will we use it for birthing?
Our hormones are our friends
My amazing uterus - understanding the physiology being birthing
Fear-Tension-Pain syndrome
Causes of fear (including history) and how it affects labour
Re-programming the subconscious
Our support team
Birthing environment
The language for empowered birthing
The power of affirmations

Unit 2: Our toolkit for birth

Unit 1: Creating and maintaining a positive mindset

Unit 1: Creating and maintaining a positive mindset

Self-hypnosis tracks
Birth music
Conditioning with scent
Hypnotic anchors and triggers
Releasing endorphins through massage and touch
Acupressure techniques for pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding
Visualisations for pregnancy, labour and birthing
The importance of facial relaxation
Relaxation Breathing - a skill for life
Surge Breathing - the best tool ever!
Techniques to help you make your surges more comfortable
The 'urge' to push/bear down - Breathing/Bearing down
Instant relaxation techniques

Unit 3: Preparation & choices for empowered birthing

Unit 3: Preparation & choices for empowered birthing

Unit 3: Preparation & choices for empowered birthing

Bonding with baby
Birth preferences - having open communication with your caregivers
Knowledge is power - researching common interventions and procedures
Questions to ask to assist in making informed decisions
Birth partner as advocate
'Guess date' - a normal range of pregnancy
Inductions - things you're not always told
Achieving a natural start to labour
Maintaining a healthy diet
Preparing the body - staying active
Optimising baby's position
Breech or Posterior - options and positions
Self-hypnosis, meditation and deep relaxation techniques & scripts

Unit 4: Birth - brining it all together

Unit 3: Preparation & choices for empowered birthing

Unit 3: Preparation & choices for empowered birthing

What to expect in the weeks and days leading up to birth
Signs that labour is starting
What to expect through labour
When to call the midwife /go to the hospital
Accidental home/car birth - what to do!
Birth partners role
Common procedures
Using water during labour and birth
Upright positioning, movement and birth positions
Special circumstances (including caesarean birth)
Fear release
Vocalisation
Cord clamping & placenta delivery
Undisturbed bonding & breastfeeding time - skin to skin
What to expect afterwards
Self-hypnosis - Rehearsal for Birth
A practice routine - preparation for birth!