HypnoBirthing the Mongan Method specialist in Canada providing HypnoBirthing, Prenatal Parenting, Hypnosis, Doula services, and training

Ilona Fritsch
514-592-4946 or 438-380-7607

HypnoBirthing® Class for parents - Course Outline

Register now to the next prenatal classes for parents :
Starting on Saturday July 3rd at 2:00 p.m. Register here or call 514-592-4946 or e-mail

Starting on Thursday July 22nd at 6:30 p.m.Register here or call 514-592-4946 or e-mail

Classes in French are also available here :HypnoNaissance

In the Prenatal HypnoBirthing® classes you will learn:

How your body is naturally designed to conceive, nurture, and birth your baby with ease and comfort;

How to achieve safer, easier, and more comfortable birth;

why pain is not a necessary accompaniment to labor;

You will learn deep relaxation techniques to help you eliminate the Fear—Tension—Pain Syndrome;

To create your body's own natural epidural (endorphins), the only safe labor enhancement;

Natural ways to bring your body into labor without artificial induction;

How you and your birthing companion can create a birthing environment that is calm, serene, and joyful rather than tense and stressful;

Gentle birthing techniques that allow you to breathe your baby into the world without the violence of hard physical pushing;

To use your natural birthing instincts to birth your baby in a way that most mirrors the way that nature intended.

The following units are taught over the course of five 2.5 hours class sessions that are based on the following book:

$13.57

$19.11

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The origin of a pain concept that is no longer valid -- a look at other cultures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

Films/testimonials 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

Films/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

Films/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

Films/testimonials of HypnoBirthing®
Comfort measures through labor
Meeting a slowed or stalled labor
Birth breathing for smooth birthing - Breathing your baby down to birth
Meeting, feeding, and bonding with baby - birthing of the placenta
The fourth trimester

HypnoBirthing® Canada:
- Ilona Fritsch

4020 St-Ambroise, Suite 472
Montreal, Quebec, H4C 2C7

514-592-4946 or 438-380-7607

ilona@hypnobirthingcanada.com