APPROACH BIRTH WITH CLARITY AND EXCITEMENT

Hypnobirthing Australia Positive Birth Program

The program is aimed at preparing you with the knowledge, confidence and tools you need to approach birth with clarity and even excitement.

The course incorporates both childbirth education and hypnobirthing techniques to enable you to let go of any fears surrounding childbirth and go into your birth empowered. I feel quality antenatal education is essential to navigating the maternity system and protecting normal physiological birth. The Positive Birth program gives you the knowledge and skills to be able to make informed decisions with you care provider and ride the ups and downs of labour and birth. Labour and birth is unpredictable at times but there is a lot of things you can control and education is key.

APPROACH BIRTH WITH CLARITY AND EXCITEMENT

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APPROACH BIRTH WITH CLARITY AND EXCITEMENT ❋

How would you like to go from concerned, stressed or confused about labour and birth, to feeling informed, comfortable, and yes, even excited?

Here’s how hypnobirthing can help you achieve that

Hypnobirthing is all about preparing your body and mind leading up to birth.

The aim is that by the time birth comes around, you can go into ‘automatic’ mode. We focus in class on creating a positive mindset, whilst learning the power of our mind on our physiological body. We address fears directly to avoid the fight or flight response which can often inhibit the progression of labour. We also learn how to work with the wonderful hormones of labour, including endorphins and oxytocin. If you know how to work with these hormones in labour rather than against them this can be a game changer in reducing discomfort and assisting labour to progress. Techniques that you learn throughout the course will also help you achieve a deep state of relaxation, allowing your body to open without resistance. Your birth partner will also learn ways to help you throughout pregnancy and birth. This is very useful for you and very empowering for your birth partner/support.

My classes are fun, casual and open to anyone.

What’s included in the Hypnobirthing Australia Positive Birth Program

Relaxation and breathing techniques to help achieve a deep state of calm and focus
Acknowledge and tackle any fears you are taking into birth, i.e. from previous birth experience
Learn about the hormones of labour and how to work with them rather than against them, i.e. oxytocin, melatonin, endorphins and adrenaline
The role of your support person
Tools for working with pain in labour and how to formulate birth preferences (template provided)
How to navigate the maternity system and make informed choices around your care
You will receive a professionally printed folio of resources that are suited to Australian mothers and their birth partners, and our models of maternity care
Access to a fantastic range of birthing videos, further evidence-based reading, plus downloads and MP3 audio tracks via the online platform Hypnobubs™

Investment & class format

$550 for a full two-day face to face course, including:

all materials and online resources
morning tea provided both days
a pregnancy and postpartum goodie bag for each expectant couple.

Book your class now

How does it work?

Step 1

Book your Hypnobirthing Positive Birth Program class below
Step 2

Receive booking confirmation and further info before your class
Step 3

Attend our in-person, face-to-face class - can’t wait to meet you!
Step 4

Provide us with your feedback - we love hearing how you went

Hypnobirthing Australia course outline

- Introduction to the positive mindset of hypnobirthing
- How our brain is wired to birth
- The role of our caregivers
- Mond/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
- 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 & birthing
- 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
- 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 - thinkgs you’re not always told
- Achieving a natural start to labour
- Maintaining a health 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
- 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!