We'll cover:
Relaxation techniques for pregnancy and labour
Fetal positioning
Caesarean births
Perineal massage and pelvic floor preparation
Optimum positions to facilitate labour
Week 2
We'll cover:
The unreliability of due dates
Managing stress in pregnancy
Induction and "natural" induction methods
Decision making and your rights
When labour begins...
Breathing techniques for labour
Week 3
We'll cover:
What is hypnosis and how does it work?
The mind-body connection
Physiology of labour and birth
The importance of the nervous system
How fear affects the process of birth
Week 1
online hypnobirthing course
We'll cover:
Different places you may choose to birth
Pain relief options
The various stages of labour - what to expect
The vital role of the birth partner
What happens after baby arrives
Writing your birth preferences
week 4
This is an ante-natal course designed to help you overcome any worries you hold around bringing your baby into the world. By teaching you about the physiology of labour and birth and arming you with relaxation techniques, hypnobirthing will help you to feel prepared, calm and confident in you body’s ability to birth your baby, no matter what sort of birth you’d ideally like to aim for.
The course runs over 4 weeks with each 2 hour session taking place over Zoom on a Wednesday evening. See below for upcoming course dates, content we'll be covering each week and answers to the most frequently asked questions. If you'd like to discuss having some private sessions at a time that suits you (either alone or with a small group of friends) please get in touch.
The next course dates will be 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th November 2023.
Please email hello@serenalouth.com to book.
FAQs
Hypnobirthing is so much more than simply listening to some guided relaxations on your iPhone, it is a full ante-natal preparation helping you to release any fear and negative ideas you hold around birth (because let's be honest, most of us have heard nothing but horror stories from an early age) so that you can be calm, confident, empowered and trusting in your body's incredible innate ability to birth your baby.
The 'hypno' part is all about shifting that anxious mindset, introducing new ways of thinking and teaching you effective relaxation techniques so that you can step back and allow your body to it's amazing work.
I truly believe that any birthing person can benefit from the knowledge and evidence-based information contained within this course, regardless of the birth you would ideally like to aim for. There is an unhelpful common misconception that hypnobirthing is just for drug-free hippy waterbirths and that is absolutely not the case.
Yes of course! The price of the course covers you and one other. That can be your partner/friend/sister/doula/birth partner - whoever you'd like to have supporting you.
The role of the birth partner in labour is massive, so it is really beneficial for them to come to birth armed with all the same knowledge as you to ensure they can support you and advocate for you to the best of their abilities.
The course costs £250 which covers you and your plus one attending the 4 online sessions, plus you'll also receive a copy of The Hypnobirthing Book and an audio download of The Ultimate Birth Relaxation.
You will become part of a supportive and friendly group of people going through pregnancy and birth alongside you, which in my own experience of becoming a parent has been invaluable. It is so so important to have people to chat to who are in it with you; whether that's to talk through your nervous excitement in the weeks leading up to birth or to discuss your many 'is this normal?' questions in the hazy postpartum days.
Hypnobirthers also get 15% off reflexology treatments with me during pregnancy and for the 3 months after birth.
