Couples HypnoBirthing®
The Mongan Method
   Miami Hypnobirthing - Childbirth Education Class

     Debra Geymayr, Certified Hypnobirthing Practitioner

HypnoBirthing® Registration Form

Please call with any questions. See UPCOMING CLASSES & WORKSHOPS Page for dates.  Private instruction available upon request.

Come in and relax, enjoy learning about how your body & baby work together during labor & birth. Spouses. birth companions and/or family members are encouraged to join in.
Books, CD's and materials are included

ONE DAY  PRENATAL W/PARTNER COUPLE'S CHILDBIRTH PREPARATION CLASS OFFERED MONTHLY ON SUNDAY - SEE COUPLE'S WORKSHOPS PAGE

WATCH HYPNOBIRTHING VIDEO (CLICK HERE)

  HypnoBirthing® Success Stories(click here)

Pregnancy is not an Illness, Birth is a "Celebration of Life."
Birthing with mindfulness and awareness
bringing about a calmer, happier experience.

Class I - Introduction to HypnoBirthing®

Understanding the philosophy- meet Marie Mongan

• The HypnoBirthing® philosophy
• Background of HypnoBirthing®
• HypnoBirthing® films of labor and birth
• Changing our "language" for pregnancy and labor
  
• Exploding the myth of pain in labor - Uterine surges/waves - muscle response
• How fear affects the length and discomfort of labor
• How the mind determines the body's response - class exercises
• Introduction to principles of hypnosis and self-hypnosis for birthing

Class II- Prenatal Bonding -
Preparing Your Mind and Body for Birthing

• HypnoBirthing® film
• Prenatal bonding - discussion and exercises
• Rainbow Relaxation tape and script
• Breathing for labor: Sleep Breathing, Slow Breathing
• Visualizations for labor

Class III - Getting ready to
welcome your baby

• HypnoBirthing® film/testimonials
• Positions and exercises for labor & birth
• Nutrition for your body and baby 
• Avoiding episiotomy - perineal massage
  
• What to do if labor slows or stalls
  
• Light touch massage
• Preparing your birth preferences
• Making hospital, home, or birthing center choices
• Looking at your estimated due date
• The natural onset of labor, free of drugs or intervention

Class IV Understanding the 
birthing miracle

• HypnoBirthing® film/testimonials
• How your body works with you and for you
• Settling in your birth place 
• The two phases of labor - opening/thinning and birthing
• Special circumstances
• Hallmarks of labor
• The birthing companion's integral role in labor - prompt sheet
• How labor proceeds
• Releasing limiting emotions and fears
• Practice Birth Breathing/Birth Breathing
• Meeting your Baby, bonding & placental birth
• Get ready for the Fourth Trimester!

Class V
HypnoBirthing® Review - techniques/breathing/deeping/
ultra relaxation/question-answer

A normal birth is best for mothers and babies. Even though there is medical care during labor & birth, it is not a medical event.  Soaring rates of cesareans, inductions, epidural anesthesia, forceps and vacuum deliveries have offered no improvement in birth outcomes. Today with 98% of births experiencing routine medical interventions, we are losing our understanding of what normal birth really is.

HypnoBirthing® provides mothers and fathers to-be a unique method of achieving a more relaxed, natural birth enhanced by self-hypnosis techniques, while learning through the childbirth education classes how to use "the missing link", that allows women to labor longer at home, using the "natural relaxant" of the body and instincts to bring about a safer, easier, more comfortable birth, avoiding many interventions that typically occur at hospitals when labor does not progress rapidly. Learn to let go of the fear-tension-pain syndrome with emphasis placed on mother relaxing & meditating during each natural wave of the body, helping baby to descend while tapping into a deeper consciousness, trusting in her bodies ability to labor while saving the energy needed to breathe and birth your baby.

Birth Partners and Fathers are loving advocates and companions not coaches.  Childbirth classes help parents prepare to be calm and confident in birth and newborn care.

The group classes are open discussions and each couple's questions/concerns are addressed.

Learning the HypnoBirthing® method can greatly reduce the need for chemical anesthesia, allows your birth companion to be an integral part of the birth process, shortens the first stage of labor by several hours, eliminating fatigue. HypnoBirthing® allows mother to let go of the stress of rushing to bring baby into the world in reducing the need for unnecessary "pushing" by breathing baby down to crowning. Babies come into the world awake and alert, postpartum recovery is much easier for Mom therefore allowing birth to be the "Celebration of Life" it is meant to be.

See "Birth Stories" page for some HypnoBirthing Success Stories

OTHER HYPNOSIS SERVICES:

Turning a Breech Baby
Fear Releasing

Your Instructor:
Debra Geymayr, E-RYT, RPYT, HBCE, CD(DONA), CLD, CPD, CHBE, OSD, IMP, PES,  is a Certified HypnoBirthing® Practitioner, Labor, Birth & Postpartum Doula (a woman who "mothers the mother" assisting through labor & delivery) and (helping families with baby/home care following birth). Specializing in pregnancy, birth and beyond, Debra's work is dedicated to helping families create a positive, joyful, more mindful approach to childbirth which most mirrors nature. HypnoBirthing® moms report a remarkable advantage in being able to "relax, release and let go" during each surge while allowing baby to journey easier, with less stress & strain. Teaching "Happiest Baby on the Block" classes with Dr. Harvey Karp's amazing techniques of calming and soothing your baby during the "4th Trimester" of life. It Works!!!

The HypnoBirthing® Course is a Registered Trademark name.
This course can only be taught by certified practitioners.
The HypnoBirthing® Institute
PO Box 810 Epson, NH 03234

Please return form with $100.00 (non-refundable) deposit no later than 2-weeks prior to course start date. Deposit is applied to total cost of course. Balance due on first session. (4-5) sessions of 2.5 hrs. with accommodations for couples with "less" time...