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The Positive Birth Program
Course Outline

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

  • The amazing uterus - understanding the physiology
    behind birthing

  • Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome

  • Causes of Fear (including history) and how it affects our
    labour

  • Reprogramming the subconscious

  • Our support team

  • Birthing environment

  • Language for empowered birthing

  • The power of affirmations

Unit 2: Our Toolkit for Birth​

  • Self-hypnosis tracks

  • Birth music

  • Conditioning with scent

  • Hypnotic anchors and triggers

  • Releasing endorphins through massage and touch

  • Acupressure techniques for pregnancy, birth & 
    breastfeeding

  • Visualisations for pregnancy, labour & birth

  • The importance of facial relaxation

  • Relaxation breathing - a skill for life

  • Surge breathing - the best tool ever!

  • Techniques to help make your surges more comfortable

  • The 'urge' to push/bear down - breathing / bearing down

  • Instant relaxation techniques

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 you 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 & positions

  • Self-hypnosis, meditations, deep relaxation techniques & scripts

Unit 4: Birth - Bringing it all Together​

  • What to expect in the weeks and days leading up to birth

  • Signs that labour is starting

  • What to expect through labour (membranes releasing etc.)

  • 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 cesarean 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

What is HypnoBirthing?: The Clinic
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