The program
The Hypnobirthing Australia™ Positive Birth Program is an evidence-based, positive childbirth education course and the leading hypnobirthing course in Australia.
You, and your birth support person, will learn how to prepare your mind and body for a positive birth experience, no matter how you choose to birth or how your birth unfolds.
You will learn the physiology of birth, the history of birth, the role of your hormones and your body’s innate ability to birth your baby. It will give you the confidence you need to trust your body, release any fears (in your conscious or subconscious mind) and face your birth with excitement rather than fear.
The course will also give you a toolkit to draw from in labour, which you can practise in the lead up to your birth. We will cover proven, evidence-based techniques such as breathing, acupressure points, visualisations, affirmations, movement, self hypnosis (a state of deep relaxation) and more. When your big day arrives, you will have conditioned yourself to easily slip into your birth zone and feel calm and excited about bringing your baby into this world.
You, and your birth support person, will learn how to prepare your mind and body for a positive birth experience, no matter how you choose to birth or how your birth unfolds.
You will learn the physiology of birth, the history of birth, the role of your hormones and your body’s innate ability to birth your baby. It will give you the confidence you need to trust your body, release any fears (in your conscious or subconscious mind) and face your birth with excitement rather than fear.
The course will also give you a toolkit to draw from in labour, which you can practise in the lead up to your birth. We will cover proven, evidence-based techniques such as breathing, acupressure points, visualisations, affirmations, movement, self hypnosis (a state of deep relaxation) and more. When your big day arrives, you will have conditioned yourself to easily slip into your birth zone and feel calm and excited about bringing your baby into this world.
The details
Cost:
$495/couple for 12-hour group course (held over two sessions)
$770/couple for 12-hour private course (held over two or four sessions)
Location:
Group classes are held at Cairns Birth Collective on Scott St
Private classes are held in your home
Next Course Dates:
Sunday June 19 and Sunday June 26, 9am-3pm
$495/couple for 12-hour group course (held over two sessions)
$770/couple for 12-hour private course (held over two or four sessions)
Location:
Group classes are held at Cairns Birth Collective on Scott St
Private classes are held in your home
Next Course Dates:
Sunday June 19 and Sunday June 26, 9am-3pm
Course outline
Unit 1: Creating & maintaining a positive mindset
Unit 2: Our toolkit for birth
Unit 3: Preparation & choices for empowered birthing
Unit 4: Birth – bringing it all together
- 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
Unit 2: Our toolkit for birth
- Self-hypnosis tracks
- Birth music
- Conditioning with scent
- Hypnotic anchors and triggers
- Releasing endorphins through massage and touch
- Acupressure techniques for pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding
- Visualisations for pregnancy, labour and 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
Unit 3: Preparation & choices for 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 and positions
- Instant relaxation techniques
- Self-hypnosis, meditation and deep relaxation techniques and scripts
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 (eg membranes releasing)
- 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 and placenta delivery
- Undisturbed bonding and breastfeeding time – skin to skin
- What to expect afterwards
- Self-hypnosis – rehearsal for birth
- A practice routine – preparation for birth!
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