HypnoBirthing ® Course Outline
In HypnoBirthing® classes you will learn:
- Everything you need to know to achieve safer, easier, and more comfortable birth;
- To explore the myth that pain is a necessary accompaniment to labor;
- Techniques of deep relaxation to help you eliminate the Fear—Tension—Pain Syndrome;
- How your body is naturally designed to conceive, nurture, and birth your baby with ease and comfort;
- To create your body's own natural epidural (endorphins), the only safe labor enhancement;
- Natural ways to bring your body into labor without artificial induction;
- How you and your birthing companion can create a birthing environment that is calm, serene, and joyful rather than tense and stressful;
- Gentle birthing techniques that allow you to breathe your baby into the world without the violence of hard physical pushing;
- To use your natural birthing instincts to birth your baby in a way that most mirrors the way that nature intended.
The following units are taught over the course of five 2.5 hours class sessions that are based on the following book:
UNIT I
Discovering and embracing HypnoBirthing® for easier, more comfortable birthing
- The philosophy of HypnoBirthing®
- Background of HypnoBirthing®
- Exploding the myth of pain in labor - Uterine surges/waves - muscle response
- What's wrong with labor - Why it hurts; why it doesn't have to
- The origin of a pain concept that is no longer valid -- a look at other cultures
- How fear affects the length and discomfort of labor
- Introduction to principles of hypnosis and self-hypnosis for birthing
- How the mind determines the body's response - class exercises
- Films of HypnoBirthing® labor and birth
UNIT II
Prenatal Bonding -- Preparing Your Mind and Body for Birthing
- Film of HypnoBirthing®
- Prenatal bonding - discussion and exercises
- A Mother's Conversation with Her Unborn Child
- A Father's Script
- Rainbow Relaxation tape and script
- Breathing for labor: Sleep Breathing, Slow Breathing, Birth Breathing
- Rapid progressive relaxation/deepening techniques for labor
- Visualizations for labor
UNIT III
Getting ready to welcome your baby
- Film/testimonials of HypnoBirthing®
- Stretching inner thigh muscles
- The nutrition your body and baby need
- Avoiding episiotomy - perineal massage - favorable labor positions
- Light touch massage
- Preparing your birth plan
- Daddy's promise
- Making hospital, home, or birthing center plans
- Looking at your estimated due date
- How to achieve a natural onset of labor, free of drugs or intervention
UNIT IV
Understanding the simplicity of the birthing miracle
- Film/testimonials of HypnoBirthing®
- How your body works with you and for you
- Settling in at the hospital
- The two phases of labor - opening/thinning and birthing
- Special circumstances
- Early signals and hallmarks of labor
- The birthing companion's integral role in labor - prompt sheet
- How labor proceeds
- Releasing limiting emotions and fears
UNIT V
Birthing -- Breathing love; bringing life
- Film/testimonials of HypnoBirthing®
- Comfort measures through labor
- Meeting a slowed or stalled labor
- Birth breathing for smooth birthing - Breathing your baby down to birth
- Meeting, feeding, and bonding with baby - birthing of the placenta
- The fourth trimester
Our next series of five HypnoBirthing - the Mongan Method classes for parents will begin on Saturday October 16th 2010 at 2:00 p.m. and Friday October 15th at 6:30 p.m. 2010
For further information or to register please send e-mail to ilona@hypnobirthingcanada.com
HypnoBirthing® Canada:
- Ilona Fritsch
4020 St-Ambroise # 472
Montreal, Québec,
Canada H4C 2C7
514-592-4946
ilona@hypnonaissance.com
ilona@hypnonaissance.com