Hypnobirthing course outline
Creating and maintaining a positive mindset
Unit 1: Creating & 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 behind birthing
Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome
Causes of Fear (including history) and how it affects our labour
Re-programming the Subconscious
The language for empowered birthing
The power of affirmations
Birthing environment
Our toolkit for birth
Unit 2: Our toolkit for birth
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Self-hypnosis tracks
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Birth music
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Conditioning with scent
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Hypnotic anchors and triggers
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Releasing endorphins through massage and touch
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Acupressure techniques for pregnancy, birth & breastfeeding
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Visualisations for pregnancy, labour & birthing
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The importance of facial relaxation
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Relaxation Breathing – a skill for life
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Surge Breathing – the best tool ever!
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Techniques to help make your surges more comfortable
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The ‘urge’ to push/bear down – Breathing/Bearing down
Preparation & choices for empowered birth
Unit 3: Preparation & choices for empowered birth
empowered birthing
Bonding with baby
Choices in maternity care
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 & positions
Instant relaxation techniques
Self-hypnosis, meditation and deep relaxation techniques & scripts
Birth, bringing it all together
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 partner’s 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!