Class 1

• Tools for stress reduction
• Common language of birth
• Strategies for increasing pregnancy comfort
• Pregnancy nutrition
• Building your birth team: settings and providers
• Prenatal care: questions and strategies
• Creating your village
• Hypnobirthing tool #1

 

Class 2

• Creating birth preferences
• Prenatal choices
• Labor and birth choices
• Postpartum choices
• Interactive sheet to record your questions and decisions
• Hypnobirthing tool #2

 

Class 3

• What's happening / what's helpful during:
  • late pregnancy
  • early / pre-labor
  • active birth
  • transition and pushing
  • first 24 hrs. of baby's life
  • planned Cesarean birth
  • a change in planned mode of birth
• Helping your baby get ready
• Nurturing your body and mind
• Strengthening your hypnobirthing tools

 

Class 4

• Transitions and adjustments
• Putting you first
• What's happening and what's helpful in baby's first weeks and days?
• Newborn care
• Sleeping
• Baby feeding: is baby getting enough?
• How to use your hypnosis toolkit