What is HypnoBirthing® ?

Private HypnoBirthing® classes offer practical tools and gentle techniques to help you prepare for a more relaxed, mindful birth experience. In a supportive one-on-one setting, you'll learn breathing, visualization, and deep relaxation practices — all tailored to you and your birth preferences.

HypnoBirthing® is a childbirth education program designed to help you achieve a satisfying, relaxing and stress-free birth. It focuses on education, visualizations, and relaxation techniques based on self-hypnosis. It also focuses on dispelling the fears associated with childbirth so that parents can go into their birth feeling calm and confident.

We have been programmed to expect childbirth to be a certain way, for most women they expect excruciating pain.

But “What we think influences how we feel”. For instance, if you recall an unpleasant event in your life, you will surely tense up just thinking about it. Fear will cause tension which in turn will cause pain. And the fear of the pain drives the pain. HypnoBirthing® focuses on teaching you how to relax your mind. And when your mind is relaxed, your body will be relaxed allowing your uterine muscles to open more easily which will lead to an easier birth.

HypnoBirthing® will teach you that when the mother is healthy and in the absence of special circumstances, Pain and Tension do not have to be an accompaniment of Labor.

HypnoBirthing® is an incredible tool to get yourself in the desired peaceful and confident frame of mind by the time of arrival of your baby. And the earlier you start, the more time you have to practice.

Advantages of Hypnobirthing

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Learn to be relaxed and eliminate the fear that causes tension
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Learn how to call upon the body’s own natural relaxant and thus lessen, or even eliminate, discomfort and the use of chemical painkillers and drugs
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Reduce the pain during labor: most women only feel some pressure
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Reduces and often eliminates fatigue during Labor, leaving you fresh and alert
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Builds confidence in your body’s own natural ability to birth without unnecessary interventions
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Shortens the first phase of labor
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Learn special breathing techniques allowing you to breathe your baby into the world rather than push
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Reduces the need for an episiotomy
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Prepares your companion to assist you during your labor, giving him/her an integral role in the birthing
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Enhance the bond between Mother and Child and the birthing partner
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HypnoBirthing® Techniques are simple and easy. Just like with any techniques, the key to success is practice.
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When you trust that your body will work perfectly, as Nature has intended, a natural easier birth is possible for you.

✺ What You Will Learn ✺

These are typically offered as private one-on-one classes. Interested in learning alongside friends? Ask about our group “Village Mom” discount rate

- Introduction to the remarkable HypnoBirthing® philosophy
- The History of Women and Birthing
- Why and how you can have an easier, more comfortable, and safer birthing
- How Nature perfectly designed women’s bodies to birth
- How to assist, rather than resist, your natural birthing instincts
- The vocabulary for calm and gentle birthing
- Visualizing gentle births by viewing beautiful birthing videos
- The remarkable mind of your newborn baby—Prenatal bonding techniques
- Rapid and instant self-relaxation techniques and deepening techniques
- Breathing techniques for labor and birthing
- Hypnotic relaxation and visualization
- Selecting the right care provider
- The Birth companion’s role in birthing
- Preparing your body for birthing with massage and toning
- Preparing Birth Preference Sheets
- Preparing the Body for Birthing
- Light Touch Labor Massage
- Your body working for and with you
- Avoiding artificial induction and achieving a natural start to labor
- Releasing negative emotions, fears, and limiting thoughts
- Onset of Labor – Thinning and Opening Phase
- Birth explained simply
- Settling in at the hospital or birthing center
- Preparing for home birth – or baby’s choice of birth
- As labor moves along – passing time through labor
- Hallmarks of labor
- If labor rests or slows – Companion’s prompts and activities
- As labor advances – birthing with your baby
- Protecting the natural birthing experience
- Birth rehearsal imagery
- Moving into birthing
- Positions for descent and birthing
- Breathing baby down to birth
- Baby moves to the breast
- Family bonding with your baby

Often pregnant moms ask when is the best time to start the classes… The sooner you start the more time you have to practice the techniques, the more natural they will come to you!