Resources & Recommendations

Visit Our Online Shop for Additional Hypnobirthing MP3 Tracks

We have tracks available for pregnancy, childbirth, breech turn, sleep, children, breastfeeding and bonding and also general hypnosis. Visit our shop to download your additional practice materials now!

Background Music for your Birth & Relaxation

If you love the background music from ‘Surge of the Sea – Hypnosis for Childbirth’ and our other tracks; then you can now purchase the music by world renowned Australian meditation music artist – Christopher Lloyd Clarke, to use as background music during your own birth or for general relaxation before and after your birth.

Aromatherapy

Click here to download a very informative free eBook about aromatherapy for pregnancy; written by Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner Vicki Hobbs from Perth.

Women have complex needs during childbirth. In addition to the safety of modern obstetrical care and the love and support provided by their partners, women need consistent, continuous reassurance, comfort and respect.

Positive effects of Doula Care

• 50% reduction on caesarean rates
• 25% shorter labour
• 60% reduction in epidural requests
• 40% reduction in Syntocinon use
• 30% reduction in analgesia use
• 40% reduction in forceps delivery

This is Australia’s largest online directory of doulas. A doula offers unbiased information, physical and emotional support during pregnancy, childbirth and in the postnatal period
http://www.findadoula.com.au/

Contact your Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner for recommendations of doulas in your local area.

Lactation Consultants

The Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) runs the National Breastfeeding Helpline 1800 mum 2 mum (1800 686 268). The Breastfeeding Helpline is available 7 days a week. It is staffed by trained, volunteer counsellors who answer calls on a roster system in their own homes.

AL-SENSE

AL-SENSE is the only non-invasive monitoring test for amniotic fluid leaks which can assist women during their last trimester of pregnancy differentiate amniotic fluid leakage from urinary leakage – potentially avoiding unnecessary interventions.

Loss of amniotic fluid (membranes releasing) is often spontaneous and naturally occurring however about one in ten women might find that their membranes release prematurely (PROM premature rupture of membranes) during pregnancy.

AL-SENSE panty liners provide discrete, non invasive monitoring of fluid leakage which may assist in avoiding mis-diagnosis of amniotic fluid leakage.

Buy Al-Sense Now!

Homebirth Support

http://www.homebirthaustralia.org/

Homebirth Australia is a group of consumers and midwives committed to ensuring the survival of homebirth as a birth option for Australian women, with the overall aim of public funded homebirth across the country.

Home Visits/Settling Baby/Breastfeeding

Contact your Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner for recommendations of Lactation Consultants in your local area.

Parenting Blogs

Mother Down Under   This is a great blog by Hypnobirthing Australia mum Caitlin. This is an online mother’s group for pregnant women and for new mothers.  It contains a lot of useful advice, mixed with a bit of humour.

The Rent Tent is another great blog created by talented Hypnobirthing mum, Rachel from Brisbane. It’s about parenthood and womanhood and is attracting quite a following.

Recommended Services Gold Coast & Brisbane

Click here for recommended services around Gold Coast and Brisbane.

Photography

We wish to thank (and highly recommend) the following talented photographers who have generously contributed to our program.

The He{art)t of Motherhood – Jen Shipston – location Gatton, Queensland.

Melissa Jean Photography – Melissa Jean – location Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

Home Grown Photography – Jessica Ann – location Perth, Western Australia.

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