About HypnoBirthing®
The HypnoBirthing® Childbirth method is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing. HypnoBirthing teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth and pregnancy in a more comfortable manner. The classes are delivered in a fun but informative manner,leaving you excited and confident in your ability to have a positive birth experience. HypnoBirthing fully compliments the excellent midwifery and childbirth service that is provided by the NHS in Devon.
You will learn to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant and thus lessen or eliminate discomfort and the need for medication. When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all other creatures.
You will be fascinated as you view HypnoBirthing® films showing labouring mothers, awake, alert and in good humour as they experience the kind of gentle birth that you, too, can know when you are free of the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome.
HypnoBirthing® teaches you to release all prior programming about birth, how to trust your body and work with it, as well as how to free yourself of harmful emotions that lead to pain-causing fear and unyielding muscles.
HypnoBirthing® will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing instincts. With HypnoBirthing®, you will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.
Course Structure:
- Setting the Stage
- Falling in Love with Your Baby
- Getting Ready to Welcome Your Baby
- Overview of Childbirth
- Birthing - Breathing Love, Bringing Life
Course Highlights:
- How the mind and emotions affect the body
- Why labour hurts and why it doesn’t have to
- Releasing fear, the enemy of labour
- Preparing your mind and body for birthing
- Avoiding artificial induction and episiotomy
- Developing ultimate-depth relaxation
- Understanding the stages of labour
- Preparing your Birth Plan
- Tapping Nature’s own relaxant
- Breathing your baby down for birth
This is the approved Marie Mongan course and as such costs include HypnoBirthing® Book, CD as well as handouts. The course is usually carried out over five weeks, requiring the pregnant mother and birthing partner to be in contact with the instructor for approximately 2 ½ hrs per week as well as regular practice of the techniques taught. It is beneficial to start the course in the second trimester or early final trimester but late enrolment can be accommodated. This course is taught on a 1:1 basis or in small groups of no more than five couples. Please register interest as early in pregnancy as possible in order that group sessions can be organised.