What is the positive Birth Program all about?
This program will provide you with a broad variety of skills as well as some tools for you to use during your pregnancy, labour, birth and beyond. We will cover birth choices, the physiology of labour and birth, and most importantly it will show you the strength of our minds, our subconscious and how we can use this to our own benefit. The four units that will be covered, our outlined below.
Unit One:
• Creating and maintaining a positive mindset
- How our brain is wired to birth
- Introduction to the positive mindset of hypnobirthing
- Mind/body connection
- Our support team and our birthing environment
- The language of empowered birthing
- The power of affirmations
Unit Two:
• Our toolkit for birth
- Birth and self-hypnosis tracks
- Releasing endorphins through massage and touch
- The importance of relaxation and breathing
- Visualisations for pregnancy, labour and birth
- Acupressure techniques for pregnancy, labour and birth
Unit Three:
• Preparation and choices for empowering birthing
- Bonding with baby
- Birth preferences
- Knowledge is power
- Birth partner advocate
- Preparing the body and mind
- Optimal baby’s position
- Breech or posterior positions
Unit Four:
• Birth- bringing it all together
- What to expect in the weeks/days leading up to birth
- Signs of labour starting and what to expect
- Upright positioning
- Fear release
- Birth partners role
- Undisturbed bonding and breastfeeding time
- Common procedures
- Special circumstances
