All classes with instructor Brittany Lilak, HBCE are conducted in the privacy and comfort of your own home.
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HypnoBirthing® Class Outline |
UNIT 1: Building A Positive Expectancy:
- Introduction
- HypnoBirthing®
- Rationale for Comfortable Birth
- How the Uterus Works
- What's Wrong with Labor?
°How Fear Affects Labor
°Origin of Pain Concept
- Hypnosis and Deep Relaxation/Creating Positive Birth Outcomes
- HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD - 1 and 2
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UNIT 2: Falling in Love with Your Baby/ Preparing Mind & Body
- HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD - 3 and 4
- Pre-birth Parenting Techniques
- DVD- What Babies Want
- Relaxation and Visualization for Birthing
- Rapid and Instant Relaxation Techniques
- Breathing Techniques for Labor and Birthing
- Progressive, Instant, and Deepening Techniques
- Hypnotic Relaxation and Visualizations
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UNIT 3: Getting Ready to Welcome your Baby
- Looking at Your Estimated Due Date
- Making Hospital, Home or Birthing Center Plans
- Preparing the Body for Birthing
- Light Touch Birthing Massage
- HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD- 5 and 6
- Preparing your Birth Preferences Sheets
- When Baby is Ready
- Avoiding Artificial Induction of Labor
- Your Body Working for You And with You
- Releasing Negative Emotions, Fears and Limiting Thoughts
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UNIT 4: Overview of Childbirth--A Labor of Love
- HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD- 7 and 8
- Onset of Labor--Thinning and Opening Phase
- Arriving At The Hospital
- As Labor Moves Along
- Birth Companion's Role
- If Labor Rests or Slows
- Positions for Labor and Birthing
- Protecting the Natural Birthing Experience
- As Birthing Advances--Nearing Completion
- Birth Rehearsal Imagery
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UNIT 5: Birthing-Breathing Love, Bringing Life
- HypnoBirthing® DVD- Birth As We Know It
- Mother Nears Completion--Thinning and Opening Phase Ends
- Birth Explained Simply
- Breathing Baby Down
- Birth of the Placenta
- Family Bonding
- Forest Fantasy Metaphor
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