What is HypnoBirthing®?

First watch this short birth video: "A Peaceful Home Water Hypnobirth"
My friend (and HypnoBirthing instructor) Tracey gives birth with such grace.

HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing. HypnoBirthing gives you a complete birth preparation method, including skills for your birth companion, relaxation and breathing techniques, information about nutrition, posture, birthing positions, bonding with baby & more.

This amazing program teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner.
At HypnoBirthing classes you will learn how to call upon your body's own natural relaxant and thus lessen, or even eliminate, discomfort and the need for medication. When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all animal mothers in Nature. These classes will transform your approach to birthing and provide you with invaluable tools for a gentle and easeful birthing.

Classes in Nelson 2013

When is the next course: Start dates of next courses are June 25th and August 20th. Each course runs over 5 weeks each Tuesday evening for 2 1/2 hours, 6.30pm - 9.00 pm.

Classes are held at my home 11 Tasman st, in central Nelson. The price is $295 per couple including hypnobirthing book, CD's, resource folder, and of course all the skills you will need to have a calm, peaceful birth. Contact Anna now to reserve you place now. Discounts possible for low income couples.

The HypnoBirthing® Advantage

~ Teaches deep levels of relaxation to eliminate the fear that causes tensionand, thus, pain
~ Greatly reduces and often eliminates the need for chemical painkillers and drugs
~ Shortens the first phase of labor
~ Leaves mother alert, fresh, awake and with energy
~ Helps keep oxygen supplied to baby during birthing
~ Reduces the need for an episiotomy
~ Reduces and often eliminates fatigueduring labor
~ Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm birth for themselves and their baby
~ Gives the birthing companion an integral role in the birthing
~Teaches breathing techniques that allow a woman to gently breathe her baby into the world without the violence of hard, physical pushing.

What People Are Saying about HypnoBirthing:

“I really enjoyed your and HypnoBirthing’s gentle approach. I have changed my vocabulary accordingly;
it was a great reminder to soften and quieten. I think you are a great teacher and deliverer of the course. I especially loved how your husband Roger was able to share his experience.”      Wendy Cotter, Midwife

“I cant explain what a huge support Simon was and how much the hypnobirthing course helped us to connect at such an intense time. Si was so positive and reassuring i managed to progress to fully dilated and pushed for 1 1/2 hours and birthed Oliver myself straight onto my chest, what a magical moment. I really want to thank Anna for teaching us the techniques to enable us to achieve a beautiful homebirth that i have always dreamed of”   Carly, Mum-to-be and Midwife

“We really had an amazing Labor and birth with the help of Hypnobirthing Techniques. I say HypnoBirthing absolutely 100% works! What a huge difference this time from our first birth!"      Rebecca, Nelson Mum

“I really enjoyed the course and I am looking forward to attending more of the births. I found it especially good to do the relaxation techniques and watch the dvds and get information on the physiology of birth, especially the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system.”           Suzi Hume, Nelson Midwife