Hypnobirthing The Mongan Method 5 Week Course Starting Sunday Sept 28th from 1:30-4pm
Check out our 5 week HypnoBirthing© Childbirth Education Course starting on Sept 28th for our Long Island City Community. Prepare yourself for a satisfying, stress-free birth. Relax your mind, trust yourself and watch your muscles work in perfect harmony, as designed by Nature, for your labor and delivery. In the absence of fear and tension, or special medical circumstances, severe pain does not have to be a part of labor.
Here is the itinerary of the class description for HypnoBirthing®The Mongan Method. Please see our workshop for more information. 
Unit 1: Building A Positive Expectancy
- Introduction to the remarkable HypnoBirthing® Philosophy
- The History of Women and Birthing
- Why and how you can have an easier, more comfortable, and safer birthing
- How Nature perfectly designed women’s bodies to birth
- How to assist, rather than resist, your natural birthing instincts
- The vocabulary for calm and gentle birthing
- Visualizing gentle births by viewing beautiful birthing videos
Unit 2: Falling in Love with Your Baby/Preparing Mind & Body
- The remarkable mind of your newborn baby – Prenatal bonding techniques
- Rapid and instant self-relazation techniques and deepening techniques
- Breathing techniques for labor and birthing
- Hypnotic relaxation and visualization
- Selecting the right care provider
- The Birth companion’s role in birthing
- Preparing your body for birthing with massage and toning
Unit 3: Getting Ready to Welcome your Baby
- Preparing Birth Preference Sheets
- Preparing the body for Birthing
- Light Touch labor Massage
- Your body working for and with you
- Avoiding artificial induction and achieving a natural start to labor
- Releasing negative emotions, fears and limiting thoughts
Unit 4: An overview of Birthing – A Labor of Love
- Onset of labor – Thinning and Opening Phase
- Birth explained simply
- Setting in at the hospital or birthing center
- Preparing for home birth – or baby’s choice of birth
- As labor moves along – passing time through labor
- Halmarks of labor
- If labor rests or slows – Companion’s prompts and activities
- As labor advances – birthing with your baby
- Protecting the natural birthing experience
- Birth rehearsal imagery
Unit 5: Birth – Breathing Love – Bringing Life
- Moving into birthing
- Positions for descent and birthing
- Breathing baby down to birth
- Baby moves to the breast
- Family bonding with your baby