Unit 1: Creating and maintaining a positive mindset

• Introduction to the positive mindset of hypnobirthing
• Causes of Fear (including history) and how it affects our labour
• The role of our caregivers
• Mind/body connection
• What is hypnosis and how will we use it for birthing?
• Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome – how fear affects labour
• My amazing uterus– understanding the physiology behind birthing
• Our hormones are our friends
• Re-programming the subconscious
• Birthing Environment
• The language for empowered birthing
• Creating a Calm birthing space
• The Power of Affirmations

Unit 2: Choices, knowledge and tools for empowered birthing

• Conditioning techniques leading up to birth
• Hypnosis tracks, birth music, aromatherapy
• Releasing endorphins through touch
• Choices in maternity care
• Maintaining a healthy diet
• Staying Active – exercise during pregnancy
• Tips for Optimal Foetal Positioning
• Introducing our toolkit for birth
• The importance of facial relaxation
• Relaxation Breathing  – a skill for life
• Surge Breathing – the best tool ever!
• The ‘urge’ to push/bear down and breathing down

Unit 3: Preparing mind and body for birth

• Visualisations for pregnancy and birth
• Pre-birth bonding
• Bonding with baby at birth
• ‘Guess date’ – a normal range of pregnancy
• Artificial Inductions – things you’re not always told
• Achieving a natural start to labour
• Instant relaxation techniques
• Self-hypnosis techniques to practice alone
• Using triggers, anchors, suggestions, and self-hypnosis during pregnancy & birth
• Hypnosis/Relaxation Scripts and Prompts for partners

Unit 4: Birth – bringing it all together

• Birth Preferences – the importance of open communication with your caregivers
• Special circumstances
• Membranes Releasing
• Questions to help you make good decisions
• Birth companion as advocate
• Your rights as a childbearing woman
• Breech or Posterior – options and positions
• Hypnosis for releasing fears
• What to expect through labour and birth
• When to call the midwife/go to the hospital
• Birthing positions
• The birth partner’s role
• Cord clamping and placenta delivery
• Undisturbed bonding/breastfeeding time – skin to skin
• Hypnosis – rehearsal for birth