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Course Outline

27/07/2011 by Melissa Spilsted

 

Unit 1: Creating & maintaining a positive mindset

  • Introduction to 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 & 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 ” breathing down

Unit 3: Preparing mind and body for birth

  • Visualisations for pregnancy & 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, suggestion, self hypnosis during pregnancy & birth
  • Hypnosis/Relaxation Scripts & 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 child bearing woman
  • Breech or Posterior – options & 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 & placenta delivery
  • Undisturbed bonding/breastfeeding time – skin to skin
  • Hypnosis – rehearsal for birth

We also offer our services over Skype and phone ” click here to find out more.

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About Melissa Spilsted

Melissa Spilsted is an author, clinical hypnotherapist, teacher, recording artist and the director of Hypnobirthing Australia™ (Australia's fastest growing childbirth education course). She teaches hypnobirthing techniques to parents and practitioners throughout Australia and the world.

About the Program

The Hypnobirthing Australia™ program is a unique and comprehensive antenatal education program catering to Australian needs, that builds knowledge and uses techniques such as relaxation, self-hypnosis, breathing & movement for a safer, easier and gentle birth.

Serving These Areas:

• Brisbane
• Gold Coast
• Sunshine Coast
• Gladstone
• Noosa
• Maroochydore
• Mooloolaba
• Townsville
• Adelaide
• Woolongong
• Central Coast
• Canberra
• Perth
• Sydney
• Port Lincoln
• Maitland
• Busselton
• Mandurah
• Bunbury
• Rockhampton
• Darwin
• Innisfail
• Port Macquarie
• Hobart
• Ballarat
• Mornington Peninsula
• Springfield
• Ipswich
• Campbelltown
• Geraldton
• Newcastle
• Cairns
• Greensborough
• Bendigo
• Warrnambool

 


• Deniliquin
• Phillip Island
• Murwillumbah
• Yamba
• Wangaratta
• Albury Wodonga
• Wagga Wagga
• Lismore
• North Burnett
• Woonona
• Esperance
• Maryborough
• Bendigo
• Mackay
• Blackburn
• Glen Iris
• Shepparton
• Point Cook
• Morayfield
• Maroochydore
• Lennox Head
• Tweed Coast
• Cannonvale
• Blue Mountains
• Castle Hill
• Geelong
• Sale
• Byron Bay
• Inverloch
• Shoalhaven


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