HypnoBirthing® Class Schedule and Prices
Creating Your Calm is now accepting enrollment for private and group courses. Sign up for announcements from Creating Your Calm Blog to know the latest class schedules. Refresher courses are also available to individuals who have previously taken a full course with Creating Your Calm or any other certified HypnoBirthing® instructor.
HypnoBirthing® by Creating Your Calm, is taught in 5 sessions lasting 2.5 hours each, and is taught by Elizabeth Oldham, H.B.C.E. and Dona International Trained Doula. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are nearing your due date or live outside of the Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Durham area for an alternative schedule.
Although Creating Your Calm is highly focused on family interaction, we ask that children do not attend any HypnoBirthing® courses. Concentration and relaxation are vital during the course. Thank you for your understanding.
Upcoming Courses (2013) all classes are held in Chapel Hill unless otherwise specified
- Sundays 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm March 3rd – April 7th (Register Here)
- Thursdays 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm April 4 – May 2 (Register Here)
- Thursdays 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm May 9th – June 6th (Register Here)
- Thursdays 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm June 13th – July 18th (no class July 4th) (Register Here)
- Thursdays 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm July 25th – August 29th (no class on August 22nd) (Register Here)
- Thursdays 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm September 5th – October 3rd (Register Here)
- Thursdays 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm October 10 – November 14th (Register Here)
- Private courses (Register Here)
Pricing
- $300 (includes non-refundable deposit) for small group sessions held in Chapel Hill NC
- $600 (includes non-refundable deposit) for private sessions held in your home or other location you feel most comfortable
- $125 Customized 2.5 hour refresher course
Our highly educational and informative classes include:
- Your own copy of the 302-page HypnoBirthing Text, HypnoBirthing– The Mongan Method
- 5 information-packed class meetings, helping you to understand why labor doesn’t have to hurt
- 5 professionally written scripts for your home practice
- 2 CDs for your relaxation, stress reduction, and bonding (Including the program cornerstone disk, Rainbow Relaxation)
- Handouts for planning your Birth Preferences
- A set of Birth Prompts for your birth Companion
- Demonstration and practice in optimal birth positions
- A free hypnotic session in building birth confidence and eliminating fears
- A Guide to good pregnancy nutrition
- Several deep relaxation techniques for use during birthing
- Well-paced instruction designed to build your confidence and help you to have a safer, easier, and more comfortable birthing
- Special calm breathing methods for use throughout labor and during birthing
- Private instruction if desired
- Small classes for personal attention
- Body toning exercises and practice
- The advantage and confidence of the Mongan Method reputation for top-quality birthing preparation
HypnoBirthing® Class Outline
UNIT I: Discovering and embracing HypnoBirthing® for easier, more comfortable birthing
- The philosophy of Hypnobirthing®
- Background of HypnoBirthing®
- Exploding the myth of pain in labor – Uterine surges/waves – muscle response
- What’s wrong with labor – Why it hurts; why it doesn’t have to
- The origin of a pain concept that is no longer valid — a look at other cultures
- How fear affects the length and discomfort of labor
- Introduction to principles of hypnosis and self-hypnosis for birthing
- How the mind determines the body’s response – class exercises
- Films of HypnoBirthing® labor and birth
UNIT II: Prenatal Bonding — Preparing Your Mind and Body for Birthing
- Film of HypnoBirthing®
- Prenatal bonding – discussion and exercises
- A Mother’s Conversation with Her Unborn Child
- A Father’s Script
- Rainbow Relaxation tape and script
- Breathing for labor: Sleep Breathing, Slow Breathing, Birth Breathing
- Rapid progressive relaxation/deepening techniques for labor
- Visualizations for labor
UNIT III: Getting ready to welcome your baby
- Film/testimonials of HypnoBirthing®
- Stretching inner thigh muscles
- The nutrition your body and baby need
- Avoiding episiotomy – perineal massage – favorable labor positions
- Light touch massage
- Preparing your birth plan
- Daddy’s promise
- Making hospital, home, or birthing center plans
- Looking at your estimated due date
- How to achieve a natural onset of labor, free of drugs or intervention
UNIT IV: Understanding the simplicity of the birthing miracle
- Film/testimonials of HypnoBirthing®
- How your body works with you and for you
- Settling in at the hospital
- The two phases of labor – opening/thinning and birthing
- Special circumstances
- Early signals and hallmarks of labor
- The birthing companion’s integral role in labor – prompt sheet
- How labor proceeds
- Releasing limiting emotions and fears
UNIT V: Birthing — Breathing love; bringing life
- Film/testimonials of HypnoBirthing®
- Comfort measures through labor
- Meeting a slowed or stalled labor
- Birth breathing for smooth birthing – Breathing your baby down to birth (review)
- Meeting, feeding, and bonding with baby – birthing of the placenta
- The fourth trimester
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