Unit One: 

Creating & maintaining a positive mindset

  • How our brain is wired to birth

  • Role of caregivers

  • What does a Positive Birth mean to you

  • The mind-body connection

  • What is self-hypnosis and how will we use it for birth?

  • Hormones are our friends

  • My amazing uterus

  • The effects of fear on birth

  • Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome

  • Birthing environment

  • Re-programming the Subconscious

  • Our support team

  • The power of language

  •  The power of Affirmations

Unit Three:

  • 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

  • Self-hypnosis, meditation and deep relaxation techniques & scripts

Unit Two:

Our Toolkit for birth

  • Self hypnosis tracks

  • Birth music

  • Conditioning with scent

  • The power of touch (hypnotic anchors and triggers) 

  • Releasing endorphins through massage and touch

  • Acupressure techniques for pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding

  • Visualisations for pregnancy, labour and 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 Four:

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 cesarean birth)

  • Fear release

  • Vocalisation

  • Cord clamping & placenta delivery

  • Undisturbed bonding & breastfeeding time – skin to skin

  • What to expect afterwards (and planning for your postpartum)

  • Self-hypnosis – Rehearsal for Birth

  • A practice routine – preparation for birth!