Hypnobabies Course Outline

Hypnobabies Course Materials

● Your 218 page Hypnobabies workbook
● 7 CDs for the Hypno-Mom
● 1 CD for the Birth Partner
● The Hypnobabies Quick Reference Guide for Labor
● The Birth Partner’s Guide Booklet
● Techniques from The book, “Back Labor No More”
● 6 Hypnobabies scripts in a spiral bound book
● Your Perineal Massage Booklet
● Your “Rights of Childbearing Women” booklet
● 16 Handouts

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 and Your Rights
● Questions for Caregivers – Consumer Issues and Positive Communication
● Creating your Birth Preferences
● “Big” Babies
● Packing Your Birth Bag
● Touring Your Place of Birth
● Benefits of a Professional Labour Assistant (Birth Doula)
● “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 Labour

● 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 Doula Can Help the Birth Partner
● 4 Pages of Verbal Birthing Cues
● Physical Comfort Techniques; the Change of Plans Hypnosis Script
● Late First Stage Labour – 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, Oxytocin, Post-Partum Choices
● Review: Membranes Releasing, 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!

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