HypnoBirthing® Sedona

UNIT #1 Building a Positive Expectancy
	•	Introduction - HypnoBirthing® Stories Video - Marie Mongan
	•	HypnoBirthing® Beginnings
	•	Rationale/Muscle Comparison
	•	How the Uterus Works
	•	Articles of Birth Affirmation
	•	Uterus During Surge Illustration
	•	What’s Wrong with Labor?
	•	How Fear Affects Labor
	•	History of Women and Birthing
	•	Hypnosis and Deep Relaxation/Creating Positive Birth Outcomes
	•	Psycho-Physical Exercise

	•	Pen Dropping
	•	Sleep Breathing Introduction/Demonstration
	•	Lemon Cutting Script
	•	Light Arm/Heavy Arm

	•	HypnoBirthing® Stories # 1 and #2
UNIT #2 Falling in Love With Your Baby/Preparing Mind & Body
	•	HypnoBirthing® Stories -- #3 and #4
	•	Prenatal Bonding Techniques

	•	Bonding Exercise
	•	Father’s Script
	•	Mother’s Conversation with Her Unborn Child
	•	Parent’s Prayer

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Relaxation and Breathing

	•	Routine
	•	Positions
	•	Facial Relaxation
	•	Sleep Breathing Reviewed
	•	Slow Breathing
	•	Birth Breathing

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Progressive, Instant, and Deepening Techniques

	•	Progressive Relaxation
	•	Disappearing Letters
	•	Birth Companion’s Deepening Script

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Hypnotic Relaxation and Visualizations

	•	Rainbow Script
	•	Opening Blossom
	•	Blue Satin Ribbons
	•	Arm-Wrist Test
	•	Depthometer/Glove Relaxation/Sensory Gate Valve
	•	Time Distortion

	•	Releasing Limiting Thoughts Assignment
	•	Preparing the Body for Birthing

	•	Light touch Massage
	•	Stretching the Inner Thigh Muscles
	•	The Leaping Frog/squatting/Semi-squatting
	•	Pelvic Floor Exercises (Kegels)
	•	Perineal Massage
	•	Nutrition—Its importance in growing healthy, happy babies

UNIT #3 Getting Ready to Welcome your Baby
	•	Birth Stories Videos #5 and #6
	•	Daddy’s Promise
	•	Birth Preferences
	•	Hospital Records and Pre-Admission Registration
	•	Breech Presentation
	•	When Baby is Ready
	•	Looking at Your Due Date
	•	Special Circumstances That Require The Attention of A Caregiver
	•	Avoiding Artificial Induction of Labor
	•	Achieving A Natural Start of Labor
	•	Prelude to Labor
	•	Your Body Working for You And with You
	•	Releasing Negative Emotions, Fears and Limiting Thoughts

UNIT #4 Overview of Childbirth—A Labor of Love
	•	Birth Stories Video #7
	•	Onset of Labor—Thinning and Opening Phase
	•	Arriving at The Hospital
	•	As Labor Moves along

	•	Birth Companion’s Role
	•	Birth Companion’s Birth Guide

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If Labor Stalls or Slows

	•	Review of Misconceptions
	•	Natural Measures to Restart Labor
	•	Important Questions for Birth Companions to Protect Natural Birthing Experience

	•	As Birthing advances—Nearing Completion
	•	Birth Rehearsal Imagery

UNIT #5 Birthing—Breathing Love, Bringing Life
	•	Show Birthing Video—Birth Into Being or Other appropriate video
	•	Hallmarks of Labor
	•	Mother Nears Completion—thinning and opening phase ends
	•	Birthing Phase—Breathing Baby Down
	•	Positioning and Repositioning
	•	Birth—The Final Act
	•	Forest Fantasy Metaphor
	•	Miscellaneous Scripts and Illustrations

	•	NLP Projection Room Emotion Release
	•	Balloon Trip Release
	•	Pelvic Station
	•	Birth Explained Simply
	•	Recommended Reading List
	•	Visualization for Optimal Birth Positioning