Hypnobirthing Classes Perth Outline
Below we have listed everything you can expect to learn about during our Hypnobirthing Australia™ classes.
- How fear affects women in labour;
- Breathing techniques for labour & birth;
- Self-hypnosis techniques for labour & birth;
- Relaxation and visualization techniques for labour & birth;
- How to prepare your birth preferences;
- How your birth partner can support you during labour & birth;
- A simple explanation of what happens during labour & birth;
- How you can breathe to minimise tearing during delivery;
- How to use hypnosis and relaxation to create positive birth outcomes;
- Strategies to avoid an induction of labour;
- Identifying and eliminating your fears and negative belief systems;
- After completing a Hypnobirthing Australia™ course you will be fully prepared, educated and confident in how you can achieve a positive, calm birth;
- We will educate and empower couples on how they can reduce pain in labour and reduce the need for drugs or medical intervention while still achieving a positive calm birth;
- Our private hypnobirthing classes are tailored for your own circumstances and experience or if you are unable to attend the four weeks;
Hypnobirthing Classes Perth are a great way to become confident, prepared and excited about your birth.
Here is a more comprehensive course outline:
Unit 1: Creating & maintaining a positive mindset
- 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 & breastfeeding
- Visualisations for pregnancy, labour & 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 & positions
- Instant relaxation techniques
- Self-hypnosis, meditation and deep relaxation techniques & 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 (membranes releasing and more)
- When to call the midwife / go to the hospital
- Accidental home / car birth – what to do!
- Birth partners’ 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 & placenta delivery
- Undisturbed bonding & breastfeeding time – skin to skin
- What to expect afterwards
- Self-hypnosis- Rehearsal for Birth
- A practice routine – preparation for birth!
My name is Vicki Hobbs and I am a Childbirth Educator (Back to Basics Birthing), Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner, Remedial Massage Therapist specialising in Pregnancy Massage, Birth & Postpartum Doula, Certified Placenta Encapsulator, Hypnotherapist, Aromatherapist, Reiki Practitioner and Life Coach. I am based in the northern suburbs of Perth and can be contacted by email by [email protected] or phone (08) 9303 9111.
