Would you like to overcome any fears connected to giving birth? Would you like to reduce pain while giving birth? If your answer is yes to any of the above questions, then HypnoBirthing is the choice for you!

HypnoBirthing is The Mongan Method, is a unique method of relaxed, natural childbirth education, enhanced by hypnosis techniques that allow women to use their natural instincts to bring about a safer, easier, more comfortable birthing in a way that most mirrors nature.

The method teaches you that, in the absence of fear and tension, or special medical circumstances, severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labour.

You will gain an understanding of how the birthing muscles work in perfect harmony--as they were designed to--when your body is sufficiently relaxed and you trust birth. You will learn how to achieve this kind of relaxation, free of the resistance that fear creates, and you will learn to use your natural birthing instincts for a calm, serene and comfortable birth.

When you have your baby with HypnoBirthing®, you will not be in a trance or a sleep. What you will experience is similar to the daydreaming, or focusing, that occurs when you are engrossed in a book or a movie.

You will be conversant and in good spirits--totally relaxed, but fully in control. As you will be awake and aware throughout, you are also aware of your body’s surges and your baby's progress; but because you will have trained yourself to reach complete relaxation, you will be able to determine the degree and the manner in which you will feel the surges. You will experience birthing in an atmosphere of calm relaxation, free of the fear that prevents the muscles of your body from functioning as nature intended them to. In this calm state, your body's natural relaxant, endorphins, replaces the stress hormones that constrict and cause pain.

As a trained HypnoBirthing® practitioner and Coach Sandy is successfully teaching women and their birthing companions to trust birth and release all fear and limiting thoughts. She has also been interviewed by The Business Times.

Considerably shorter labour and birthing

- Higher number of comfortable, natural births with no technological assistance
- Higher energized mothers in good spirits following births that are calm and gentle
- A high rate of success in assisting breech-presented babies to turn into appropriate birthing position with the use of hypnosis

• According to a study published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, women who opted for hypnosis-assisted labour had shorter labours and lower post-natal depression scores.
• Hypnobirthing mothers are also less likely to require surgical assistance during births

At ONE Hypnosis, we believe in giving you the best, so you can experience birthing in the most wonderful way.  Our course is conducted on a one-to-one basis, so you can be assured that you get all your needs met as every mother is unique. We will do our utmost to cater to your every need because you and your baby are the most important.

Lesson #1: Building A Positive Expectancy:

• Introduction
• HypnoBirthing®
• Rationale for Comfortable Birth
• How the Uterus Works
• What's Wrong with Labour?
  °How Fear Affects Labour
  °Origin of Pain Concept
• Hypnosis and Deep Relaxation/Creating Positive Birth Outcomes
• HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD - 1 and 2

Lesson #2: Falling in Love with Your Baby/Preparing Mind & Body

• HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD - 3 and 4
• Pre-birth Parenting Techniques
• DVD- What Babies Want
• Relaxation and Visualization for Birthing
• Rapid and Instant Relaxation Techniques
• Breathing Techniques for Labour and Birthing
• Progressive, Instant, and Deepening Techniques
• Hypnotic Relaxation and Visualizations

Lesson #3: Getting Ready to Welcome your Baby

• Looking at Your Estimated Due Date
• Making Hospital, Home or Birthing Center Plans
• Preparing the Body for Birthing
• Light Touch Birthing Massage
• HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD- 5 and 6
• Preparing your Birth Preferences Sheets
• When Baby is Ready
• Avoiding Artificial Induction of Labour
• Your Body Working for You And with You
• Releasing Negative Emotions, Fears and Limiting Thoughts

Lesson #4: Overview of Childbirth--A Labour of Love

• HypnoBirthing® Stories DVD- 7 and 8
• Onset of Labour--Thinning and Opening Phase
• Arriving At The Hospital
• As Labour Moves Along
• Birth Companion's Role
• If Labour Rests or Slows
• Positions for Labour and Birthing
• Protecting the Natural Birthing Experience
• As Birthing Advances--Nearing Completion
• Birth Rehearsal Imagery

Lesson # 5: Birthing--Breathing Love, Bringing Life

• HypnoBirthing® DVD- Birth As We Know It
• Mother Nears Completion--Thinning and Opening Phase Ends
• Birth Explained Simply
• Breathing Baby Down
• Birth of the Placenta
• Family Bonding
• Forest Fantasy Metaphor

Lesson # 6: Conclusion

• Summary and revision of all lessons learned
• Further questions or concerns from both parents

Course Fees include:

• HypnoBirthing® The Mongan Method Book
• The Rainbow Relaxation and Birthing Affirmation CD
• All course materials, worksheets, affirmations
• Free Refreshments during class
• Post course support for both you and your partner via email, phone