HypnoBirthing® - The Mongan Method is as much a philosophy as it is a technique. The concept of HypnoBirthing® is not new, but rather a "rebirth" of the philosophy of birthing as it existed thousands of years ago and as it was recaptured in the work of Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, an English obstetrician, who first forwarded the concept of natural birthing in the 1920s. The method teaches you that in the absence of fear and tension, severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labor.HypnoBirthing®, you will not be in a trance or a sleep. What you will experience is similar to the daydreaming or focusing that occurs when you are engrossed in a book or a movie or staring into a fire. HypnoBirthing® are successfully teaching women and their birthing companions relaxation techniques of HypnoBirthing® that eliminate the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome throughout the United States, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
You will gain an understanding of how the birthing muscles work in perfect harmony--as they were designed to--when your body is sufficiently relaxed. You will learn how to achieve this kind of relaxation, free of the resistance that fear creates, and you will learn to use your natural birthing instincts for a calm, serene and comfortable birthing.
You will be conversant and in good spirits--totally relaxed, but fully in control. Awake throughout, you will be aware of your body's surges; but because you will have trained yourself to reach complete relaxation, you will be able to determine the degree to which you will feel the surges. You will experience birthing in an atmosphere of calm relaxation, free of the fear and tension that prevents the muscles of your body from functioning as nature intended them to. In this calm state your body's natural anesthesia, endorphins, replaces the stress hormones that constrict and cause pain.
NATURAL CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION CLASSES FOR THE MOTHER-TO-BE AND HER BIRTHING COMPANION
A Celebration of Life 5 - 2 1/2-hour classes
Childbirth Education Class Outline
UNIT I Discovering and embracing HypnoBirthing® for easier, more comfortable birthing
· The philosophy of Hypnobirthing®
· Background of HypnoBirthing®
· Exploding the myth of pain in labor - Uterine surges/waves - muscle response
· What's wrong with labor - Why it hurts; why it doesn't have to
· The origin of a pain concept that is no longer valid -- a look at other cultures
· How fear affects the length and discomfort of labor
· Introduction to principles of hypnosis and self-hypnosis for birthing
· How the mind determines the body's response - class exercises
· Films of HypnoBirthing® labor and birth
UNIT II Prenatal Bonding -- Preparing Your Mind and Body for Birthing
· Film of HypnoBirthing®
· Prenatal bonding - discussion and exercises
· A Mother's Conversation with Her Unborn Child
· A Father's Script
· Rainbow Relaxation tape and script
· Breathing for labor: Sleep Breathing, Slow Breathing, Birth Breathing
· Rapid progressive relaxation/deepening techniques for labor
· Visualizations for labor
UNIT III Getting ready to welcome your baby
· Film/testimonials of HypnoBirthing®
· Stretching inner thigh muscles
· The nutrition your body and baby need
· Avoiding episiotomy - perineal massage - favorable labor positions
· Light touch massage
· Preparing your birth plan
· Daddy's promise
· Making hospital, home, or birthing center plans
· Looking at your estimated due date
· How to achieve a natural onset of labor, free of drugs or intervention
UNIT IV Understanding the simplicity of the birthing miracle
· Film/testimonials of HypnoBirthing®
· How your body works with you and for you
· Settling in at the hospital
· The two phases of labor - opening/thinning and birthing
· Special circumstances
· Early signals and hallmarks of labor
· The birthing companion's integral role in labor - prompt sheet
· How labor proceeds
· Releasing limiting emotions and fears
UNIT V Birthing -- Breathing love; bringing life
· Film/testimonials of HypnoBirthing®
· Comfort measures through labor
· Meeting a slowed or stalled labor
· Birth breathing for smooth birthing - Breathing your baby down to birth (review)
· Meeting, feeding, and bonding with baby - birthing of the placenta
· The fourth trimester
