More about the Program

The Hypnobirthing Australia™ Positive Birth Program is a comprehensive, evidence-based course that supports women and their birth partners to achieve a calm and respected birth. Hypnobirthing teaches couples how to navigate the system, the tools and techniques needed to ensure a more comfortable birthing experience, empowers couples to advocate for the birth they want and helps to prepare your mind and body for a positive and calm birth no matter the circumstances.

Course Inclusions

  • Tuition with a certified Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner

  • Australian based course developed with current Australian birthing options in mind

  • Professionally printed Parent Portfolio

  • Practical tools and techniques to manage labour.

  • Hypnobirthing practise tracks MP3

  • eBook

  • Practise videos

  • Up to date birth videos showing a variety of positive birth options within the Australian and New Zealand systems

  • Access to Hypnobirthing Australia Online Parent Portal

  • Downloadable resoiurces

  • Breathing techniques

  • Relaxation exercises

  • Visualisations

  • Hypnobirthing scripts

  • Annotated birth videos

  • Birth partner cheat sheet

  • Sample birth preferences

  • “I honestly don't know how things would have gone if we had not done your Hypnobirthing course. I was terrified of birth prior. Afterwards I looked forward to the day with nervous anticipation and felt much more equiped to deal with whatever came my way. I felt like superwoman!"

    Jordy

  • “We want to thank you tremendously, Michelle for the amazing course you provided for us. I went into birthing Miley with a full heart and intense excitement. Your knowledge and care set me up for the most positive birth I could have ever asked for and I am so grateful for that.”

    Laura

  • “Michelle created a positive, safe environment with time to ask questions, practise techniques and bond with your birth partner. I felt completely held and supported. She checked in, provided tips to help accept and release the fear surrounding our planned c-section.

    Chiara

  • “Thanks to you Michelle! I don't think I could have survived the initial labour stages without the Hypnobirthing affirmations and breathing techniques. It also helped me stay calm when thing weren't going as planned. Thank you Michelle for your constant support throughout this journey.

    Sadaf

Best time to do the course

The ideal time to complete the Hypnobirthing Australia Positive Birth Program is somewhere between 20 - 30 weeks. This give you enough time to practise the tools and techniques and really condition you mind and body for a positive birth experience.

However, do not despair, as long as you are still pregnant, its never too late! Please get in direct contact to find out how I can accommodate you!

Invest in your positive birth today!

What is covered in the Positive Birth Course

Unit 1

Creating and Maintaining a Positive Mindset

  • Introduction to the positive mindset of hypnobirthing

  • How our brain is wired to birth

  • The role of our caregivers

  • Mind/body connection

  • What is self-hypnosis and how will we use it for birthing?

  • Our hormones are our friends

  • My amazing uterus – understanding the physiology behind birthing

  • Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome

  • Causes of Fear (including history) and how it affects our labour

  • Re-programming the Subconscious

  • The language for empowered birthing

  • The power of affirmations

  • Birthing environment

Unit 3

Preparation and Choices for Empowered Birthing

  • Bonding with baby

  • Choices in maternity care

  • Birth Preferences – having open communication with your caregivers

  • Knowledge is power – researching common interventions and procedures

  • Questions to ask, to assist in making informed decisions

  • Birth partner as advocate

  • ‘Guess date’ – a normal range of pregnancy

  • Inductions – things you’re not always told

  • Achieving a natural start to labour

  • Maintaining a healthy diet

  • Preparing the body – staying active

  • Optimising baby’s position

  • Breech or Posterior – options & positions

  • Instant relaxation techniques

  • Self-hypnosis, meditation and deep relaxation techniques & scripts

Unit 2

Our Toolkit for Birth

  • Self-hypnosis tracks

  • Birth music

  • Conditioning with scent

  • Hypnotic anchors and triggers

  • Releasing endorphins through massage and touch

  • Acupressure techniques for pregnancy, birth & breastfeeding

  • Visualisations for pregnancy, labour & birthing

  • The importance of facial relaxation

  • Relaxation Breathing – a skill for life

  • Surge Breathing – the best tool ever!

  • Techniques to help make your surges more comfortable

  • The ‘urge’ to push/bear down – Breathing/Bearing down

Unit 4

Birth - Bringing it all together

  • What to expect in the weeks and days leading up to birth

  • Signs that labour is starting

  • What to expect through labour (membranes releasing etc)

  • When to call the midwife/go to the hospital

  • Accidental home/car birth – what to do!

  • Birth partner’s role

  • Common procedures

  • Using water during labour and birth

  • Upright positioning, movement and birth positions

  • Special circumstances (including caesarean birth)

  • Fear release

  • Vocalisation

  • Cord clamping & placenta delivery

  • Undisturbed bonding & breastfeeding time – skin to skin

  • What to expect afterwards

  • Self-hypnosis – Rehearsal for Birth

  • A practice routine – preparation for birth!

More about Michelle

Hi! I’m Michelle. I am a Hypnobirthing Mumma to two little ones. I fell in love with Hypnobirthing after completing the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course and using the techniques to birth my second child. I went on to have the most amazing natural birth and felt so empowered by this experience that I just had to help others realise their dreams of a positive birth too!

I am so excited that I get to share Hypnobirthing Australia’s Positive Birth Program with women and their birth partners. I am passionate about supporting women to embrace the power of the mind-body connection during labour and birth. Through the course I ensure mothers are fully equipped with the skills and tools necessary to achieve a positive birth. Partners are supported to become a strong, knowledgeable and positive force, and a great asset to the birthing woman advocating for their care throughout the birth process. At completion, women and birth partners both walk away with a thorough understanding of the birth process, options available and a practical ‘tool kit’ of skills and strategies that can be used to achieve a positive birth no mater the circumstances.

I offer Hypnobirthing Australia’s Positive Birth Program group classes in Melbourne. I am also available to come to you for private one-on-one sessions, held in the comfort of your home.

Please get in touch to find out more!

 
 

 

 

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