What is Hypnobirthing?

Hypnobirthing simply put is about creating a positive birth experience.

The Hypnobirthing Australia™ Positive Birth Program is uniquely designed and absolutely one of its kind. It is up to date, modern and specifically designed for Australian couples. It is about teaching you to allow your body’s natural abilities and processes to birth your baby. Giving you the knowledge about your birth and the processes your body goes through in order to allow your baby to be delivered into the world. It also aims to provide you with this knowledge so that you can feel empowered to make informed decisions throughout your pregnancy.

This program will teach you to access a ‘toolkit’ that will assist you at every point in your labour and even throughout your pregnancy by focusing on releasing and letting go in order for you to meet any turn your birthing takes with ease and peace. With an emphasis on visualisation, relaxation techniques and the role of the birth partners this program is a comprehensive childbirth education.

The ‘hypno’ part of Hypnobirthing refers to self-hypnosis which is a deep form of relaxation. This is a powerful part of this program as it allows the birthing mother to relax into a meditative state all the while remaining conscious and fully aware of her surroundings. During the birthing process, women are more in tune with their body and by relaxing into a state of self-hypnosis women are able to calmly and confidently meet whatever turn their birthing takes often resulting in less interventions.

This program will also help you release any fears you may have to promote an overall feeling of empowerment in your body’s ability to birth as well as anticipation for a positive birth for you and your baby. This coupled with the self-hypnosis aspect, a practical ‘toolkit’ and the support of the birth partner is what sets Hypnobirthing apart from other childbirth classes.

Hypnobirthing Slide

Birth Partners

What is so different about Hypnobirthing Australia™ as a childbirth education is that it provides both mum and the birthing partner with information and tools. In fact, there is an emphasis on working collaboratively as a birthing mum and birth partner to achieve a birth experience where you both feel calm and empowered. This made the world of difference for my birth partner’s experience of our daughter’s birth because he knew what to do and how to help. He felt as if he was an essential part of our birth experience and even ensured that those around me maintained the calm environment we desired. Your birth partner can be anyone who you feel will support you the best throughout your birth experience, whether it be your partner, mother, a doula or you may being going on your own and that is absolutely okay too.

Attending Classes

You can attend classes anytime as our aim is to give you the opportunity to learn this information and techniques in order to assist you in your birthing experience, no matter where you are in your pregnancy. This being said, it is recommended that you attend classes between 20 and 32 weeks so that the information is still at the forefront of your mind when you begin to birth. Also beginning earlier will give you time to practice the tools and techniques from the program allowing a potentially deeper hypnotic state. However, if you are closer to your due date it is absolutely okay as many women, including myself have learnt the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course with only a few weeks before the birth and experienced wonderful, calm births.
Please contact Caitie if you are over 34 weeks or have any other questions.

Why choose Beautiful Birthing for Hypnobirthing?

At Beautiful Birthing we believe that every single woman can have a positive birth experience.

We believe there is a need for change in how birth is viewed, discussed and treated. We are passionate about bringing about this change by helping women feel empowered to make positive choices in their birthing process.

Positive births are completely normal and the way in which women experience birth not only impacts their fourth trimester but also impacts the transition from womb to world for their baby. As Ina May says “Peace on earth begins at birth” and we believe by helping women have positive births we can bring about real change in our world.

When expecting parents attend the Beautiful Birthing Hypnobirthing course they receive:

·      Class ran by a Certified Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner

·      A professionally printed folio of Australian handouts

·      Several professionally recorded and mastered practice tracks

·      An ebook “Little Book of Hypnobirthing”

·      Additional training materials

Hypnobirthing Course Folio

The Hypnobirthing Australia™ course is the most up-to-date, Australian Hypnobirth program available. Additionally, the Hypnobirthing Australia™ practitioner course is endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives which is the peak professional body for midwives in Australia.

Regular classes are offered in our Ocean Grove and Geelong locations.

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Hypnobirthing Australia™ Positive Birth Course Outline

Positive Birth Program Logo

Unit 1: Creating and 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
  • Our support team
  • Birthing environment
  • The language for empowered birthing
  • The power of affirmations

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
  • Instant relaxation techniques

Unit 3: Preparation and choices for empowered birthing

  • Bonding with baby
  • 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
  • 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 etc)
  • 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 & placenta delivery
  • Undisturbed bonding & breastfeeding time – skin to skin
  • What to expect afterwards
  • Self-hypnosis – Rehearsal for Birth
  • A practice routine – preparation for birth!

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Contact Caitie

Ph: 0400 227 488
Email: caitie@beautifulbirthing.com.au
Beautiful Birthing ABN: 26 781 286 722