Adelaide Hypnobirthing
Positive Birth Program™ Course Outline
Hypnobirthing is a powerful approach that combines relaxation techniques, breathing exercises, positive affirmations and many other tools to support a calm, confident birth experience. By reducing fear and tension, Hypnobirthing helps your body work naturally, allowing you to feel more in control and empowered during labor. This gentle, mindful approach not only eases the birthing process but also fosters a deeper connection with your baby, promoting bonding from the very first moments. With Hypnobirthing, you’re giving both yourself and your baby the gift of a peaceful, loving start to your journey together.
Unit 1
1. Creating & Maintaining a Positive Mindset
- Introduction to the positive mindset of hypnobirthing
- How our brain is wired to birth
- The role of our caregivers
- Mind/Body connection.
- What is self-hypnosis and how will we use it for birthing?
- Our hormones are our friends.
- My amazing uterus, understanding the physiology behind birthing.
- Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome.
- Causes of fear (including history) and how it affects our labour.
- Re-programming the subconscious.
- Our support team.
- Birthing Environment.
- The language for empowered birthing.
- The power of affirmations
Unit 2
2. Our Toolkit for Birth
- Self-Hypnosis tracks
- Birth music
- Conditioning with scent
- Hypnotic anchors and triggers
- Releasing endorphins through massage and touch
- Acupressure techniques for pregnancy, birth & breastfeeding
- Visualisations for pregnancy, labour & birthing
- The importance of facial relaxation
- Relaxation breathing – A skill for life
- Surge breathing – the best tool ever!
- Techniques to help make your surges more comfortable
- The “urge” to push/bear down – Breathing/Bearing down
- Instant relaxation techniques
Unit 3
3. Preparation & choices for empowered birthing
- Bonding with baby
- Birth preferences – having open communication with your caregivers
- Knowledge is power – researching common interventions and procedures
- Questions to ask, to assist in making informed decisions
- Birth partner as advocate
- “Guess Date” – a normal range of pregnancy
- Inductions – things you’re not always told
- Achieving a natural start to labour
- Maintaining a healthy diet
- Preparing the body – staying active & perineal care
- Optimising baby’s position
- Breech or posterior – options and positions
- Self-hypnosis, meditation and deep relaxation techniques & scripts
Unit 4
4. Bringing it all together
- What to expect in the weeks and days leading up to birth
- Signs that labour is starting
- What to expect through labour (membranes releasing etc)
- When to call the midwife/go to the hospital
- Accidental home/car birth – what to do!
- Birth partners role
- Common procedures
- Using water during labour & birth
- Upright positioning, movement and birth positions
- Special circumstances (including caesarean birth)
- Fear release
- Vocalisation
- Cord clamping & placenta delivery
- Undisturbed bonding & breastfeeding time – skin to skin
- What to expect afterwards
- Self-Hypnosis – Rehearsal for birth
- A practice routine – Preparation for birth
For an empowering
birth experience
Amazing outcomes from Hypnobirthing
Amazing outcomes from Hypnobirthing
Amazing outcomes from Hypnobirthing
Amazing outcomes from Hypnobirthing
Non Elective Caesareans
40
%
Morphine Use
30
%
Epidurals
20
%
Induction
50
%
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