Below we have listed everything you can expect to learn about during our Hypnobirthing Australia™ classes.

1. How fear affects women in labour;
2. Breathing techniques for labour & birth;
3. Self-hypnosis techniques for labour & birth;
4. Relaxation and visualization techniques for labour & birth;
5. How to prepare your birth preferences;
6. How your birth partner can support you during labour & birth;
7. A simple explanation of what happens during labour & birth;
8. How you can breathe to minimise tearing during delivery;
9. How to use hypnosis and relaxation to create positive birth outcomes;
10. Strategies to avoid an induction of labour;
11. Identifying and eliminating your fears and negative belief systems;
12. After completing a Hypnobirthing Australia™ course you will be fully prepared, educated and confident in how you can achieve a positive, calm birth;
13. 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;
14. 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.