HypnoBirthing®

""If you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change."

Marie Mongan

What is HypnoBirthing® ?

HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free birth. This amazing program teaches you, along with your birth partner, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner.

You will learn how to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant, and therefore lessen, or eliminate, discomfort and the need for medical intervention. Through self-hypnosis and special breathing visualization techniques, HypnoBirthing teaches you to release fear and to trust your body’s ability to birth instinctively.

When you are properly prepared for childbirth and when the mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all other mothers in nature.

Course Outline

Over the course of 5 weeks, your instructor will lead you through exercises to identify & release your fears regarding birthing and replace those fears with instinctive knowledge, and confidence.

Unit 1: Building A Positive Expectancy
Unit 2: Falling in Love With Your Baby/Preparing Mind & Body
Unit 3: Advanced Visualization & Deepening
Unit 4: Overview of Childbirth, A Labour of Love
Unit 5: Birthing: The Final Act, Bonding & Preparing for the 4th Trimester

Class photo pregnant women sitting hands on bellies taking notes

HypnoBirthing® Advantages

Teaches you deep levels of relaxation to eliminate the fear that causes tension and pain
Gives your partner or birthing companion an integral role in the birthing
Teaches you and your birthing partner how to work alongside your birthing team to
achieve the birth you desire
Shortens the first phase of labor by several hours
Leave you feeling alert, fresh, and awake with energy during your labor
Reduces the need for an episiotomy
Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm birth for themselves and their baby whatever turn their birthing takes
Embraces the concept of pre-birth parenting
Teaches you breathing techniques that allow you to breathe your baby into the world without the violence of hard, physical pushing
Allows you and your partner to approach birth and parenting informed and empowered

A pregnant woman lying comfortably on the sofa with a serene smile on her face

The Six Techniques of HypnoBirthing

This program utilizes 6 techniques to help parents prepare for a positive birth experience. These include:

Relaxation
Breathing
Visualization
Self Hypnosis / Deepenings
Affirmations
Education

Each of these 6 techniques will be implemented throughout the 5-week course.

Data shows that HypnoBirthing parents have:

Less Fear approaching birth
Fewer interventions and surgical births
Decreased use of oxytocics or AROM
Shorter 1st and 2nd phase labor
Fewer pre-term and low-weight babies
Lessened or eliminated need for analgesia
Happier and more content mothers & babies
Babies alert; able to nurse almost immediately
Few cases of post-partum depression reported
Infants with higher than average APGAR score

Allow Pregnancy to Make Your Bond Tighter

HypnoBirthing classes are the perfect place to tap into the beautiful bond between you and your partner. Our exercises will help build confidence between both parties; in the partner’s ability to provide support and the birthing person’s feeling of being supported.

These classes also provide time for parents to bond with their baby, and build positive excitement for the upcoming birth. This positivity and bonding will play into the birthing experience, where the baby is an active participant.