Course Materials
Our Students use the Hypnobabies® Workbook, CDs and hypnosis scripts to train their inner minds that contractions (pressure waves) in labor (birthing time) will be felt only as pressure, tightening, pushing, pulling and normal baby movement sensations. They remain fully in tune with their bodies and their babies during the birthing process, and as aware as they would like to be, easily able to communicate and be in charge of their own birth experience.
We include a very comprehensive childbirth education curriculum that ensures that our Hypno-moms remain deeply committed to their Hypnobabies® training, since they need not go anywhere else for childbirth education. Other natural childbirth classes are wonderful but many teach “pain-coping” and “pain-management”, which is directly in opposition to Hypnobabies® “pain-elimination” techniques.
Included with your class series:
The series is taught in 18+ hours of instruction, one day per week (about 3 hours each) for 6 weeks
Course Outline
Class #1: Introduction to Hypnobabies®:
Class 2: Staying Healthy and Low Risk:
Class 3: Your Options in Birthing:
Class 4: The Onset of Labor:
Class 5: Birth Partners, Transformation and Birth:
Class 6: Birthing Your Baby and Beyond:
Our Students use the Hypnobabies® Workbook, CDs and hypnosis scripts to train their inner minds that contractions (pressure waves) in labor (birthing time) will be felt only as pressure, tightening, pushing, pulling and normal baby movement sensations. They remain fully in tune with their bodies and their babies during the birthing process, and as aware as they would like to be, easily able to communicate and be in charge of their own birth experience.
We include a very comprehensive childbirth education curriculum that ensures that our Hypno-moms remain deeply committed to their Hypnobabies® training, since they need not go anywhere else for childbirth education. Other natural childbirth classes are wonderful but many teach “pain-coping” and “pain-management”, which is directly in opposition to Hypnobabies® “pain-elimination” techniques.
Included with your class series:
- Hypnobabies workbook
- 7 CDs for the Hypno-Mom (12 tracks)
- 1 CD for the Birth Partner (1 track)
- The Hypnobabies® Quick Reference Guide for Birth
- The Birth Partner’s Guide Booklet
- 6 Hypnobabies® scripts in a spiral bound book
- New Mom and Baby Care Self Study Booklet from Injoy
- Abdominal Lift and Tuck Handout
- Perineal Massage pamphlet
- Rights of Childbearing Women pamphlet
- AND MORE (worth $150+)!
The series is taught in 18+ hours of instruction, one day per week (about 3 hours each) for 6 weeks
Course Outline
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
- Hospital Forms and Your Rights
- Questions for Caregivers – Consumer Issues and Positive Communication
- Creating the Birth Plan of your Dreams
- “Big” Babies; Packing Your Birth Bag
- Touring Your Place of Birth; Benefits of a Professional Labor Assistant
- “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 Labor:
- 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 Labor Assistant Can Help the Hypno-Partner
- 4 Pages of Verbal Birthing Cues
- Physical Comfort Techniques
- The Change of Plans Hypnosis Script
- Late First Stage Labor – 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, Pitocin, Membranes Releasing, Post-Partum Choices
- Review: 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!