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Course Content
The HypnoBirthing® course is designed to be a comprehensive ante-natal programme. It will include the following content:
- A re-education – our culture builds expectations about labour and birth that can be negative and misleading – HypnoBirthing® re-educates you about how birthing can be.
- How the uterus works
- How fear affects labour and the uterine muscles
- A history of women and birthing
- How hypnosis and deep relaxation can help to create positive birth outcomes
- How your body responds to signals from your mind
- Positive affirmations – the power of language
- Inspiring films of calm gentle births that make it really seem possible
- Pre-birth and post-natal bonding between mum, dad and baby – getting to know your baby
- How to select the right birthing environment and caregivers
- Pelvic floor exercises
- 3 breathing techniques that will leave you feeling relaxed and in control during labour, during contractions and during birth.
- Relaxation techniques
- Positions for relaxation in pregnancy and labour
- Hypnotic relaxation and visualisation techniques
- A massage technique for birthing partners to use on the labouring mother to stimulate the body’s natural pain-killers – endorphins
- Guidance on nutrition to prepare your body for a healthy pregnancy and birth
- Techniques to tone the right part of the body in the right way to reduce the likelihood of episiotomy
- Releasing limiting thoughts and fears about birthing
- Preparing your birth plan (birth preferences) for each stage of labour in order to work effectively with your caregivers
- Advice on breech presentation and what to do if your baby is breech
- What is happening in your body when the baby is nearly ready
- Signs to look for approaching your due date and indications of special circumstances
- Achieving a natural start to labour (or avoiding artificial induction)
- How your body and your baby work with you and for you during labour and birth
- An overview of labour and birth, including the role of the birthing partner
- What to do if labour slows or rests, ways to protect your birthing preferences
- Rehearsing your calm, gentle birth using hypnotic visual imagery
- What to expect as your body moves through labour to the birthing phase
- Positions for birthing
- Birth explained simply
- Birth breathing – a natural and gentle alternative to pushing
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