Essential Hypnobirthing & Confident Birth Course

​The Essentials Course is a condensed version of the complete course which requires the participants to have experience or be undertaking some additional birth education and encourages further practise in the form of reading/watching/listening outside the course.

 

Before the course I will send you a short introduction video and a few exercises to complete to lay some foundations for you ahead of our time together.

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I typically run for couples who have either had a baby before, booked onto an NCT course OR done an online course.

Within the Essentials course, I cover:

 

• What makes a positive birth experience

• How the Mind Works

• Positive Input

• Physiology of the Birthing Body

• Hormones of Labour

• Birthing like other Mammals

• Breathing for Birth

• Visualisations

• Relaxations

• Positive Affirmations

• Birth Boards

• Anchors

• The Power of Language

• Positive Affirmations

• Light touch massage

• Navigating your care within the NHS

• Looking out for unnecessary hypnobirthing derailers

• Decision Making

• Birth Partners Role 

• Your Labour timeline (where Hypnobirthing fits in)

• Discussion on Birth Plans

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You will also be provided with resources and links to help you get up to speed on:

• Preparing Your Body for Birth, 

• Further Massage Techniques, 

• Inductions, 

• C-Sections, 

• Instrumental Birth, 

• Choosing your Place of Birth, 

• Medical Pain Relief and Further Comfort Measures, 

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When

Private Essentials courses are conducted over one full day or two half-day sessions, Mon - Fri between 9.30 am and 4.30 pm, 

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Where

Private Essentials courses take place either online or in the comfort of *your own home or mine in my office/snug (complete with wood-burning stove for the winter).

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*I am delighted to travel to you and distances of up to 5 miles from my home in Bentworth (as calculated on google maps) are included in the fee. Thereafter, I charge 45p per mile each way.