Preparing for your calm, peaceful and mindful birthing
Mindful Childbirth Education
HypnoBirthing® is based on the belief that severe discomfort does not need to be a natural part of birthing when a women is prepared and trusts her birthing body. It is a rewarding, relaxing, stress-free method of birthing that is based on the belief that all babies should come into the world gently, and in an atmosphere of calm and joy. The program is as much of a philosophy as it is a technique and provides, deep relaxation, special breathing techniques, visualizations, affirmations, and education that allows women to summon their natural birthing instincts, birthing her baby safely and with ease.
Learn how to achieve deep relaxation and release your fears.
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, in the 1920s, was one of the first to forward the concept of natural birthing. The method teaches you that, in the absence of fear and tension, or special medical circumstances, severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labor.
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 and you trust birth. 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 birth.
When you have your baby with HypnoBirthing®, you will not be in a trance or asleep. 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.
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 and your baby’s progress; but because you will have trained yourself to reach complete relaxation, you will be able to determine the degree and the manner in which you will feel the surges. You will experience birthing in an atmosphere of calm relaxation, free of the fear that prevents the muscles of your body from functioning as nature intended them to. In this calm state, your body’s natural relaxant, endorphins, replaces the stress hormones that constrict and cause pain.
Trained HypnoBirthing® Educators are successfully teaching women and their birthing companions to trust birth and release all fear and limiting thoughts. HypnoBirthing® Educators can be found in 46 countries throughout the world.
“When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.”
— Marie F. Mongan
HypnoBirthing®
Unit 1 - Setting the Stage.
Introduction to the remarkable HypnoBirthing® philosophy
The History of Women and Birthing
Why and how you can have an easier, more comfortable, and safer birthing
How Nature perfectly designed women’s bodies to birth
How to assist, rather than resist, your natural birthing instincts
The vocabulary for calm and gentle birthing.
Visualizing gentle births by viewing beautiful birthing videos
Unit 2 - Pre-Birth family bonding & preparing your mind and body.
The remarkable mind of your newborn baby—Prenatal bonding techniques
Rapid and instant self-relaxation techniques and deepening techniques
Breathing techniques for labor and birthing
Hypnotic relaxation and visualization
Selecting the right care provider
The Birth companion’s role in birthing
Preparing your body for birthing with massage and toning
Unit 3 - Self-hypnosis visualization and advanced deepening.
Preparing Birth Preference Sheets
Preparing the Body for Birthing
Light Touch Labor Massage
Your body working for and with you
Avoiding artificial induction and achieving a natural start to labor
Releasing negative emotions, fears and limiting thoughts.
Unit 4 – Overview and summary of childbirth.
Onset of Labor – Thinning and Opening Phase
Birth explained simply
Settling in at the hospital or birthing center
Preparing for home birth – or baby’s choice of birth
As labor moves along – passing time through labor and comfort measures
Hallmarks of labor
If labor rests or slows – Companion’s prompts and activities
As labor advances – birthing with your baby
Protecting the natural birthing experience
Birth rehearsal imagery
Unit 5 – Birthing – The final act and bonding
Moving into birthing
Positions for descent and birthing
Breathing baby down to birth
Baby moves to the breast
Breastfeeding education
**Contact me for a private class or public schedule in St. Augustine and Jacksonville
Classes
Private and Public Zoom classes available!
In person private classes available in St. Augustine, FL
Private and public classes available by zoom to anyone in the U.S.
Class fee includes 302 pg. HypnoBirthing® The Mongan Method textbook, relaxation tracks and a classroom spiral. This is a 4 week series.
* Full refund if baby arrives before the session starts, 50% refund for cancellations 1 week prior to class starting.
From the comfort of your own home!
Public Virtual Class Dates
Virtual classes
Tuesday 1/9-2/6 6:30pm (ET)
Tuesday 2/13-3/12 6:30pm (ET)
Tuesday 3/19-4/16 6:30pm (ET)
Tuesday 4/23-5/21 6:30pm (ET)
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$425
Public Classes
*various locations and zoom
$575
Private Class In-person or Zoom.
*travel fee applies for in home class outside of South St. Augustine