Hypnobabies Class Topics
Each Class lasts about 3 hours once a week for 6 weeks. 
Class1: Learning to create and Prepare for an Easier, More Comfortable Birth
  • How the mind works - the conscious and subconscious
  • How hypnosis works - what is and what it is NOT
  • How the power of words shape our outcome
  • Practice mindful connection
  • The Importance of Daily Pregnancy Affirmations
  • Mindfulness for Peaceful Birthing
  • Mind/Body Connection
  • Demonstration of Hypnosis
  • How fear affects comfort and length of labor
  • Fear Clearing for Childbirth
  • Tests during pregnancy
  • Epidurals
  • Pregnancy Anatomy and Physiology
  • Your Beautiful Uterus and how it works
  • Creating your “Mental Lightswitch”
  • Partner Communication exercise and the “Contract of Trust”​
  • Becoming Dad: Transformation as man, partner & father/ becoming conscious of where you are at, your needs; building communication & trust with partner

Hypnosis Script: 
“Learning Self-Hypnosis”
Enter hypnosis on your own and release sensation from your body  by using the Finger-Drop Technique

Handouts include:
Becoming Dad

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Class 2: Staying Healthy & Safe
  • Nutritional Guidelines - emphasis on high protein, eggs, salt, vitamins & minerals, adequate hydration
  • Foods may want to avoid
  • Avoiding harmful substance
  • Ultrasounds
  • Comfort Measures for common discomforts during pregnancy
  • Sleeping and Resting Positions
  • Mindfulness practice for negative thoughts
  • Belly Mapping
  • Prenatal Exercises for an easier birth
  • Counting Baby Movements
  • Introduction of the Stages of your birthing time
  • Baby kindness and sensitivity through bonding
  • Early Prenatal Parenting
  • Using hypnosis for pregnancy discomforts and health
  • Birth Partner assistance
  • Becoming Dad: feeling and being part of pregnancy journey; bonding with your baby during pregnancy


Hypnosis Script:
“Creating Anesthesia”
Releasing sensation in the body while maintaining “eyes-open hypnosis” 

Handouts include:
Seafood watch card
FDA Keepsake Ultrasound handout
Protein Counter and Nutrition Log
Belly Mapping Illustration handout
Alignment handout
Perineal Massage handout
Baby Movement Count Chart
Perineal Massage handout
Baby Movement Count Chart
Becoming Dad
Class 3:  Your Birthing Options
  • Developing mindfulness by interrupting negative thoughts
  • Creating your birth vision
  • What it means to take responsibility for your own birth
  • Risks, benefits and alternatives for common procedures
  • Choices during pregnancy including exams and various medical inductions
  • Choices during childbirth - common interventions and your options
  • How to get what you want out of your birth experience
  • Creating informed choice and the “Big Secrets”
  • Hospital forms and your rights
  • Putting together your birth preferences
  • What about big babies?
  • Packing the birth bag
  • The ride to the hospital or birth center
  • Touring the birth facility
  • The benefits of doulas and why “Hypno-doulas”
  • Working with your birth team
  • Introduction of the Abdominal Lift and Tuck Birthing Techniques
  • Preparation for comfortable pushing
  • Becoming Dad: Birth choices from a dad’s perspective; how to get in the birth zone yourself - emotionally, psychologically & spiritually

Handouts include:
Birth Partner’s “Relax and Feel Confident”  MP3 card and handout
Becoming Dad
Abdominal Lift & Tuck

Hypnosis Script:
“Hypnotic Childbirth #1
​Cue words for instant hypnosis anesthesia and deepening
Class 4:  The Birthing Time
  • Using mindful positive thoughts and their profound effects
  • “Guess Dates”  ... baby’s know their birth date
  • Preparing for your birthing day
  • True vs. “false” labor
  • Signs of birthing time beginning
  • The hormones of birth
  • Using hypnosis during birthing time along with other comfort measures
  • Safe choices for & what happens when membranes break
  • Waterbirthing
  • Timing birthing waves (contractions)
  • Automatic Comfort and relaxation on “the drive” and arrival place
  • Dilation, effacement, position & station of baby,
  • Progress of birth - fast, slow, stalled
  • Vaginal exams
  • Artificial and natural induction
  • All about epidurals
  • Creating a safe & serene birthing environment
  • Working with the birth team
  • Acupressure for nausea 
  • Optimal fetal positioning - benefits chiropractic care
  • Using a birth (yoga) ball
  • Becoming Dad:  Practical birth preparation for dad, your role and how to play it​

​ Hypnosis Script:
“Hypnotic Childbirth #2”
Deepening anesthesia  and moving to different areas of body with birth partner cues.

Handouts include:
Birthing Log
Positions for Birthing Out of Bed
How to Assist the Hypno-family
We are Using Hypnosis door sign
PEACE handout
Becoming Dad
Class 5: Birth Partners, Transformation (transition) and Birth
  • Mindful practice of changing thoughts and how influences behavior.
  • Misconception around length of birth 
  • Birth Partners training -
  • Your role during pregnancy & birth
  • How doula can help
  • Verbal birthing cues
  • Physical comfort techniques
  • Change of plans hypnosis script
  • Late first stage of Labor-
  • Hypnosis deepening techniques
  • Trusting in your body
  • Your Mind and Your Baby
  • Protecting mom
  • Effective positions for birthing
  • Mother directed pushing
  • Avoiding “ring of fire” with hypnosis
  • Safe birthing of placenta
  • Pitocin
  • Cesarean facts
  • How to avoid an unnecessary cesarean
  • Informed VBAC decisions
  • Breech Birth
  • Post-partum choices
  • Benefits skin-to-skin
  • Physiological umbilical cord clamping
  • Patient centered maternity care
  • Becoming Dad: Essential dad tips for being present in the birth space; being prepared for if things don’t go to plan

​Hypnosis techniques practice:
Using Hypnobabies in the moment
practicing lightswitch, cue words and moving Hypno-anesthesia

Handouts include:
Dear Wonderful Baby Nurse note
Your Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnosis Tools and Cues at a Glance
Becoming Dad
Class 6: Practicing for Birth & Beyond
  • In-depth Birthing Rehearsal using all Hypnobabies techniques -
  • Birth balls, walking, positional changes, eyes open hypnosis, cue words using hypno-anesthesia while in hypnosis and “giving birth” rehearsal. ​
  • New Mother and Baby care -
  • Supporting and caring for mom during first 2 weeks
  • Body changes after birth
  • Newborn exam & procedures
  • Creating a newborn baby care plan
  • Important newborn issues
  • The Mind of the Newborn and 7 myths about what we think about babies
  • Breastfeeding overview
  • Breastfeeding & jaundice
  • Attachment Parenting
  • Becoming Dad:  The early days of fatherhood -what to expect; postpartum care tips for new dads

Handouts include:
Feeding/Diapering Log
Home play
MP3 card
Promotional Booklet
Becoming Dad
***Check with your Insurance Carrier – some companies will cover the cost of childbirth classes. The insurance CPT code for childbirth classes is: S9436. You may also need this: Diagnosis code Z32.2, which is for childbirth education. Some Hypno-families have used their Flexible Spending Accounts for their Hypnobabies classes too, so make sure and check out yours!***
 $400 per couple for 6 weeks.