Hypnobabies Program

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Hypnobabies Course Content:

The Hypnobabies Home Study Course is learned in 5 classes, advancing to a new part of the program each week, making it easy to learn, practice and use. 35 – 45 minutes a day of practice is required. The course includes the following:


Our 170 page Hypnobabies Workbook:Clear and concise details about how to use our 5 week Hypnobabies Home Study Course effectively; the goal being a safe, unmedicated and comfortable birthing. (See our Course Outline below for more information.) Includes information on many subjects ranging from nutrition, comfort in pregnancy, birth plans, and consumer issues, to Optimum Fetal Positioning and breastfeeding information.


Birth Partner's Guide Booklet: This booklet helps the Birth Partners(s) to learn their role in the preparations for and actual birth support system.
Quick Reference Booklet for Labor: Contains the *most important Hypnobabies information* for use, at your fingertips during your baby's wonderful birthing. Your Birth Partner and doula will love it too!
12 Advanced Hypnosis for Childbirth Scripts on CD:


1) Your Special Place Imagery and Relaxation: Allowing you to create a safe haven, meet and bond with your baby, and learn deep physical relaxation skills.



2) Easy, Comfortable Childbirth: This hypnosis script easily introduces you to the hypnotic state – relaxing the body and then the mind, and brings you powerful suggestions for a very positive *perception* of childbirth.



3) Learning Self-Hypnosis: You will learn how to instantly enter hypnosis on your own, and easily control your body completely with your mind.



4) Deepening Hypnosis: Taking you down three levels of hypnotic depth, this track brings you into a "somnambulistic state", which allows you to begin creating hypno-anesthesia for comfort in labor. It also introduces you to your "Peace" cue, a post-hypnotic suggestion cue that can be used at any time, in or out of hypnosis, to produce immediate pain relief!



5) Creating Anesthesia: You learn and practice "Eyes Open Childbirth Hypnosis", modifying your hypno-anesthesia to exactly where you need it in your body, and ensuring your ability to move around freely and comfortably during labor.



6) Hypnotic Childbirth # 1: In deep hypnosis, you are given a hypnotic deepening cue for your Birth Partner or doula to use during labor, providing instantly deeper relaxation, hypnosis and anesthesia. Positive suggestions are reinforced for dilating easily and comfortably during labor.



7) Hypnotic Childbirth # 2: Learning another cue for entering hypnosis quickly, you ensure that your mind and body will respond instantly to your powerful birthing waves. You also practice your "Peace" cue in deep hypnosis, moving your hypno-anesthesia around to different parts of your body. Very powerful programming for comfortable internal exams, IVs or any other "spot-anesthesia", including the crowning of baby's head. No "Ring of Fire!".



8) Advanced Fear Clearing Session: beginning with the creation of your Hypnobabies "Bubble of Peace", which protects you from negative messages regarding childbirth or hypnosis, this powerful script allows you to release any fears, concerns or control issues you may have. Past birthing experiences, parenting fears or anxiety regarding childbirth are easily eliminated by your inner mind, to help you feel calm and confident about your baby's birthing. Great for Birth Partners as well.



9 & 10) Birth Guide CD (Keeps the Hypno-Mom in hypnosis during labor) Track # 1 - "Easy First Stage" brings you deeply into hypnosis and deepens it with your already programmed Hypnobabies cues and techniques, keeping you deeply in hypnosis and completely comfortable as you easily dilate and efface toward pushing! Track # 2 - "Pushing Baby Out" keeps you comfortable, relaxed and focused on mother-directed pushing with powerful Hypnobabies cues and phrases. Helps you to open and push effectively.... and reinforces - NO "Ring of Fire." Invaluable!



11) Joyful Pregnancy Affirmations:"What a wonderful way to go to sleep and wake up; thinking about how great my pregnant body is and how wonderful by birthing will be with this baby". That's what our Hypno-moms say when they listen to this script daily. It has on it around 150 one line affirmations that begin with statements about your healthy, positive and easy pregnancy.It continues on and begins affirming that *your birthing* will be easy, your body knows just what to do, and your hypnosis will work beautifully when you need it to!



12) Birth-Day Affirmations: 150 more wonderful, positive and very powerful affirmations created just for your baby's Birthing Day! All in the present tense, indicating that "Today is the Day," our Birth-Day Affirmations track helps you begin your birth with confidence and remain calm and comfortable.


PLEASE NOTE: The hypnobabies Home Study Course for Expectant Mothers is a 5 week childbirth hypnosis course. This means that it takes 5 weeks to *learn* the deep hypnosis techniques that will enable you to have a much easier and more comfortable birthing, and then you will need time to *practice them* as well for several weeks. For the best benefit, it is actually optimum for you to have at least 2 months or more time to complete your Hypnobabies course and practice our hypnosis cues and techniques.


Hypnobabies Home Study Course Outline



Class1: Introduction to Hypnobabies:Introduction to Hypnobabies' Philosophies and Positive Mindset; Pregnancy Anatomy and Physiology; Belief Systems; The Power of Words and How They Affect Us; How Your Mind Works – The Conscious and Subconscious; The Mind/Body Connection; What Hypnosis is and is NOT; Demonstrations of Hypnosis; How Fear Affects Comfort and Length of Labor; Fear Clearing for Childbirth; The Importance of Daily Birthing Affirmations; The Gifts Your Body Gives You – Your Beautiful Uterus and How it Works; Creating Your "Mental Lightswitch".CD tracks: 1 per day1) "Your Special Place2) Painless Childbirth



Class 2: Staying Healthy and Low Risk:Importance of Diet in Pregnancy; Nutritional Guidelines; The High Protein Advantage; Eggs, Salt and Calcium in Pregnancy; Drinking Water for Two; Avoidance of Harmful Substances; Safe and Comfortable Prenatal Sleeping and Resting Positions; Natural Comfort Measures for Pregnancy; Introduction of the Stages of Labor including the "Baby-Kindness" Stage; New Baby Sensitivity Through Bonding; Using Hypnosis for Pregnancy Discomforts and Health; Prenatal Exercises for Birth; Birth Partner Assistance.CD Tracks: 1 per day1) Learning Self-Hypnosis2) Deepening Your Hypnosis



Class 3: Your Options in Birthing:The Importance of Making Excellent Birthing Decisions; the "Big Secrets". Detailed Childbirth Choices – Risks, Benefits and Alternatives for Common Procedures; Getting Informed Consent, Hospital Forms and Your Rights; Questions for Caregivers - Consumer Issues and Positive Communication; Creating the Birth Plan of your Dreams; "Big" Babies; Packing Your Birth Bag; Touring Your Place of Birth; Benefits of a Professional Labor Assistant; "Hypno-Doulas".CD Tracks: 1 per day1) Creating Anesthesia2) Deepening Your Hypnosis



Class 4: The Onset of Labor:Your "Guess Date" and Normal Length of Pregnancy; Preparing for your Birthing Day; Signs of Birthing Beginning; Amniotic Membranes Breaking – Your Safe Choices; True vs. “False” Labor; How to Time Your Birthing Waves (contractions); Your Birth Log; When to go to the Birth Place; Automatic Comfort and Relaxation on “The Drive” and Arrival at Your Place of Birth (if out of your home; Hypno-Guardians; Nurses – the Unsung Heroes; Using Hypnosis for Comfort During Internal Exams; Dilation, Effacement, Position and Station of Baby; The Beautiful Progress of Labor, Including Fast , Average and Slow or Stalled Labor; Artificial Induction and Natural Induction Techniques; Creating a Safe and Serene Birthing Environment; Nausea Elimination; Optimum Fetal Positioning.CD Tracks: 1 per day1) Hypnotic Childbirth # 12) Deepening Your Hypnosis



Class 5: Giving Birth to Your Baby:Birth Partners Training: Your Role During Pregnancy and Birthing Reviewed; How a Labor Assistant Can Help the Hypno-Partner; 4 Pages of Verbal Birthing Cues; Physical Comfort Techniques; the Change of Plans Hypnosis Script. Avoiding a Cesarean Section; Late First Stage Labor - Transition…or "Transformation"; Trusting in Your Body, Your Mind and your Baby; Effective Positions for Birthing; Benefits and Use of the Birth Ball; Exhale Pushing and Avoiding the “Ring of Fire” with Hypnosis; Safe Birthing of the Placenta; Cord Traction, Pitocin, Breastfeeding, Baby Kindness, Apgar Scores and Newborn Procedures; Review: Membranes Releasing, Hypnobabies Tools, Using Your Mental Lightswitch, Fear Clearing for Childbirth.



CD Tracks: 1 per day

1)Hypnotic Childbirth # 2

2) Deepening Your Hypnosis



Week # 6 – begins our Hypnobabies Maintenance Schedule, bringing all CD tracks back into the schedule: 1 track per day, rotating all CD tracks. You continue to listen to 1 track per day until your baby is born, enjoying 35 minutes of deep relaxation and positive hypnotic suggestions for easy, comfortable birthing.



We also encourage you to listen to the additional Joyful Pregnancy Affirmations every day, while waking up, going to sleep, driving or doing quiet household or office activities. This wonderfully positive 35 minute track has no hypnotic induction on it, and can be listened anytime you need some positive thoughts, feelings or visualizations about your upcoming Hypnobabies birth. With all the negative birth stories and attitudes about childbirth we are exposed to consistently while pregnant, this CD track helps you to remain in a positive frame of mind about natural childbirth, hypnosis and your own commitment level. You will love the difference it makes as you prepare for your baby's birth!

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