HypnoBirthing® Classes

HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Education Classes

What is HypnoBirthing®?

HypnoBirthing is birthing method taught in five - two and a half hour long sessions. It utilizes the power of the mind-body connection to create easy, calm, comfortable birth experiences by releasing limiting thoughts and creating positive expectations and therefore outcomes.

How will this help you?

The sessions will:

-Help you identify and eliminate limiting thoughts and fears

-Provide insightful education to help you make empowered, informed desicions that are right for you and your family

-Create an enjoyable pregnancy and birth by using the power of affirmations and visualizations to help you create the experience you want

-Give you a higher likelihood to have a natural (drug free) birth experience and be comfortable throughout the process!

-Provide you with excellent relaxation and stress-reduction techniques designed to make your labor and birth much easier and more effective, and also extremely helpful in carrying you through the more challenging moments and in life and parenthood

It really makes a difference!

- From 2005 to 2010 17% of US HypnoBirthing® mothers birthed via C-Section, compared to the national average of 32%

- 9.5% of HypnoBirthing® mothers chose to birth in the comfort of their homes. The national average is less than 1%

- 6% of HypnoBirthing® mothers chose to birth in freestanding birth centers. The national average is less than 1%

- Only 23% of HypnoBirthing® mothers birthing vaginally had epidural anesthesia, compared to the national average of 71%

Testimonials

"I loved my HypnoBirthing class. There is hope for women , babies and families in America."

April Ouedraogo, CO

"I'm actually pregnant and am in Love with your program, so empowering and really affirms what I 'know' somewhere inside me."

C.L.

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What you can expect:

Unit 1 - Dehypnotizing and Building Positive Expectancy

We'll unlearn all those myths and untruths surrounding birth and learn why birthing doesn't have to hurt

We'll also learn what hypnosis really is and how we can use it to help make birth easier

Unit 2 - Falling in Love with Your Baby & Preparing Your Mind and Your Body

Understand the importance and joy of pre-birth parenting

Learn about your options in selecting a care provider, birthing place, and birth preferences

Learn realxation and breathing techniques to make your labor easier and more effective

Discuss keeping your body in optimal health, from good nutrition to helpful exercise tips

Unit 3 - Advanced Visualization and Deepening

We'll be introduced to useful visualizations to help you create your amazing birth experience and make your labor more effective

We'll also practice some deepening techniques to give you more control over how wonderfully comfortable you'll be throughout your birthing day

Unit 4 - Overview and Summary of Childbirth

Learn about the your body's perfect design to birth easily and effectively

We'll go over the Birth Companion's role during labor and birth

We'll talk about normal events and hallmarks of labor and how to avoid unneccesary intervention

Unit 5 - Birthing - the Final Act and Bonding

What's actually happening in your body during your baby's birth and what you can do to help the process

We'll practice the birth breathing techniques again

We'll go over breastfeeding, and provide helpful resources

I'll come to you!

Hypnobirthing childbirth preparation courses are taught in two and a half hour segments over the course of five weeks. I offer private courses in the comfort of your home. I offer classes in Centennial and the surrounding areas, including but not limited to: Littleton, Englewood, Sheridan, Highlands Ranch, Lone Tree, Greenwood Village, Ken Caryl, and more. If you have friends that you feel would also benefit and you would like to include them, I am happy to offer a discounted rate for a group course.

What does it cost?

Private HypnoBIrthing birth preparation course - $415

Group Setting HypnoBIrthing birth preparation course - $315

cost includes:

A copy of the HypnoBirthing: The Marie Mongan Method
5 professionally written, guided hypnosis scripts
2 CDs to aid in stress reduction, bonding, relaxation and visualization
5 empowering and reassuring educational sessions taught in the comfort of your own home or in a group setting; including one session designing specifically for identifying and releasing fears and limiting thoughts
Handouts to create and assist in your calm, easy birth experience, including: meaningful visual aids, Birth Preferences outline, BIrth Companion's prompt card, and a HypnoBirthing Family door sign
Several deep relaxation techniques
Demonstration and guided practice of breathing techniques and optimal labor and birth positions to create a safer, easy, comfortable birth experience

Refresher and Repeat courses -

If you are expecting your second or beyond HypnoBirthing baby, whether you took your first course with me or elsewhere, I offer deeply discounted rates for refresher courses. Please contact me for more information.

Payment Plan Options

$35 material fee is due at time of registration or 1 week prior to the beginning of your course, regardless of which payment arrangement you choose.

Option 1 - SIngle payment

Private: $380 due at first session

Group: $280 due at first session

Option 2 - Two Payments

Private: $190 due at first session, $190 due at second session

Group: $140 due at first sesson, $140 due at second session

~Budgeting with a little one on the way can be a challenge. If you have financial limitations, but would still like to have the tools to make your birth experience empowered, please contact me and we can do our best to find a solution to work for you~