Course Details

Session 1 - Logic of Gratifying Hypnobirthing

• Worries and What You Want to Achieve

• Hypnobirthing and Gratifying Hypnobirthing

• How the Mind Works

• Relaxation techniques

• Negatives

• Other Mammals

• Muscles of the Uterus

• Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous Systems

Session 2 - Techniques

• Up Breathing and Visualisations

• Relaxation Demonstrations and Practice

• Back to Back Babies

• Breech Babies

• Caesarean Birth

• Pelvic Floor Exercises

• Perineal Massage

• Preventing Tearing

• Positions for Birth

Session 3 - Before Birth

• Due Dates

• Induction

• 'Natural' Induction

• Empowering Questions

• Midwives and Obstetricians

• Onset of Labour

• Relaxation Demonstration

Session 4 - The Birth

• Home / Birth Centre / Consultant Unit

• Note to caregiver

• Up (first) Stage

• Down (second) Stage

• Down breathing and visualisations

• Golden Hour (third stage)

• Information and practice