The Hypnobabies
Difference and Advantage
How is Hypnobabies different from other Childbirth
Hypnosis programs?
We are asked
many times what is the difference between
Hypnobabies and other natural childbirth or birth
hypnosis programs, and here we answer that question
by telling you what we do well without disparaging
any other particular group. Other natural childbirth
courses have excellent programs and benefits that
have helped many women have better, more relaxed
births. We recognize that and celebrate them and
what they do every day for birthing women!
In Hypnobabies,
our objectives are to help our pregnant couples bond
with their baby in utero, teach you how to stay
healthy and low-risk and be an excellent consumer,
trust in your body, mind and baby, as well as become
self-reliant and confident about birthing your own
way: unmedicated, safely and in comfort. We overcome
negative belief systems and programming, get you in
touch with your own beautiful pregnant body, guide
you through your own excellent birth experience and
give you skills that you will use for the rest of
your life. Birth Partners are brought into the
preparation process and have their own hypnotic
relaxation cues, as well as a special role to play
as they await the birth of the precious newborn with
our Hypno-mom. Since we use real medical hypnosis
techniques, addressing the mind, body, and
spirit of both Mother and Baby, our success rate is
wonderful and very gratifying!
We are not a
regular birth hypnosis class.
Hypnobabies is very detailed and successful, uses
medical hypnotic anesthesia techniques, from
Gerald Kein's amazing Painless Childbirth program,
as opposed to simple visualization and imagery, and
contains the same kinds of hypnotic scripts used by
people who undergo surgery successfully with
hypnosis as their only anesthetic.
We also fully train our Birth Partners
by giving them their own Birth Partner’s hypnosis CD
for a calm and confident attitude towards pregnancy
and childbirth, and their own detailed Birth
Partner's Guide booklet for labor, which allows them
to fully grasp their role in the preparation for
baby’s birth as well as easily helping the Hypno-Mom
during birthing. This is unique to Hypnobabies and
we are very proud of this feature.
Hypnobabies
can also be very successfully used by Single Mothers
or those whose partners will not be participating in
their birth preparation process. All of our
hypno-anesthesia techniques can be easily learned,
practiced and used alone, or with a Birth Partner or
doula.
Hypnobabies
classes also provide excellent and Complete
Childbirth Education,
lacking in most birth hypnosis programs. Providing
this Complete Childbirth Education ensures that
our wonderful students will not have to take other
natural childbirth classes whose philosophy is so
different that it negates what they have learned in
our birth hypnosis class. "Pain management and
coping skills" are actually opposite of what is
learned in Hypnobabies; we teach Pain Elimination by
using real hypno-anesthesia.
Long before
they ever step foot in their first Hypnobabies
class, our Hypno-moms get to meet their baby
and bond with him/her in a CD called Your Special
Place, and the second track is Painless Childbirth,
which helps teach you how childbirth can easily be
so comfortable. (de-programming them from the usual
childbirth horror stories, and written by Gerald
Kein.) Each Hypno-Mom is able to learn deep
relaxation and hypnosis skills for several weeks (or
months!) before Hypnobabies Class even starts. This
makes it much easier to learn her Hypnobabies
Hypno-anesthesia Techniques in each class, bringing
the Birth Partner into the preparation, (if they
have one) and also how to use hypnosis for many
other things: nausea elimination, back and hip pain,
insomnia, pre-term labor, pre-term bleeding,
perineal massage, internal exams, turning a breech,
etc.
One main
difference is that our students participate in a
hypnosis script each week in class and then have
that same script to work with
for reinforcement during the next week, which makes
a huge difference when programming the inner mind
for success. It is called "compounding" in the world
of hypnosis, is necessary for hypnotic suggestions
to be retained by the woman's subconscious, and is
unique to Hypnobabies classes.
Hypnobabies
also has "Eyes Open Childbirth Hypnosis",
which allows each wonderful Hypno-mom to walk and
talk and move around freely yet remain very relaxed,
fully present, aware and in touch with her body and
baby and completely comfortable while doing so.
Other programs rely on immobility for focus and
concentration, which can severely impede the
progress of labor and the descent and positioning of
the baby. An upright, "Eyes Open Childbirth Hypnosis"
mommy means a faster and easier birthing!
We also do
Birthing Rehearsals in class # 6
so that our Hypno-moms can experience using their
actual Hypnobabies techniques and many different
labor positions while in hypnosis in class which
is invaluable, and also shows the Birth Partner
hands-on exactly how to use his/her cues and
assistance. What a confidence builder, and has made
a huge difference in success rates here at
Hypnobabies!
Also unique
to Hypnobabies is our very successful Hypnobabies
Birth Visualization,
in which you can mentally and emotionally
practice entering labor, experience your
comfortable birthing techniques and give birth
easily and in a very detailed and personal way. This
“mental birthing rehearsal” is very important to the
process of easy and comfortable birthing and is done
many times until your Hypno-baby is born, helping
program the subconscious mind to produce exactly the
kind of birthing you want. Athletes like Tiger Woods
and public speakers of all kinds do this to prepare
with great success, and so do our Hypno-moms!
Our students
also never have to guess how to make a cohesive plan for birthing using their Hypnobabies
techniques;
our program is very clear and concise and includes a
Quick Reference Guide for each birthing couple to
use during their labor. We also include our
wonderful Birth Guide CD which keeps
our Hypno-mom deeply in hypnosis with constant
hypnotic relaxation and anesthesia suggestions for
both the first stage of labor, and the pushing phase
(NO “Ring of Fire”) as well as “positive birth team”
hypnosis throughout. Birth Professionals are shocked
at how completely relaxed and physically comfortable
our Hypno-moms are, how easily they are able to move
around and communicate and still be deeply
hypnotized, and how “in control” they are of their
bodies, minds and emotions. Our Hypnobabies students
tell us that our Birth Guide CD is "Pure Gold!"
Unique to
Hypnobabies: We require that our Certified
Hypnobabies Instructors have a trained background in
Childbirth and 50 hours of Hypnosis
training before becoming trained as a
Hypnobabies Instructor, so that all childbirth
questions and concerns from each Hypno-couple can be
addressed, hypnotic depth can be assessed, and
problems such as resistance and abreaction can
easily be dealt with.
Our
Hypnobabies Instructors are always available for
help before, during and after your Hypno-baby is
born,
and we also have a free
Hypnobabies Yahoo e-mail
group for our Hypno-moms to join for support and
encouragement after your Hypnobabies class has
ended, so that you can enjoy a community where
others are using Hypnosis for Childbirth as well. We
have daily tips and suggestions, childbirth hypnosis
birth stories and a great deal of camaraderie.
Other
programs have shorter and simpler childbirth
hypnosis classes (8 - 12 hours of instruction as
opposed to our 18)
and may contain some excellent hypno-tools for
birthing, but none contain the amount of
information, in depth hypno-anesthesia, training,
practice and support of Hypnobabies. All elements
have been carefully designed to work together and
the results are amazing even to ME. Not all of our
Hypno-moms will have a completely comfortable
birthing, yet for most it will be very close to it,
and this makes all the difference in the world to so
many women. Very gratifying!
Hypnobabies
is an excellent choice for any woman wanting
Hypnosis for Childbirth that works easily and
beautifully!
Kerry
Tuschhoff, HCHI, CHt, CI
Founder/Director of
Hypnobabies
(714) 952-BABY
(2229)
www.hypnobabies.com
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