What is Hypnobirthing Australia™?

Hypnobirthing Australia™ is a positive childbirth education program for you and your support person to prepare for birth. This evidence-based course promotes a positive mindset, helping you release fears and embrace a calm and empowering birth experience.

Hypnobirthing with Blissful Births provides you with essential tools to birth calmly. You'll learn hypnotherapy, a deep self-relaxation technique, along with visualisation, affirmations, effective breathing techniques, massage, pressure points, and more. Hypnobirthing Australia is recommended nationally by midwives, obstetricians and physiotherapists.

I'm excited to offer this course to empower and help expectant mothers and their birth partners for the journey ahead.

How does it work?

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As a health professional, I prioritise evidence-based practices for achieving optimal outcomes. Check out the evidence for Hypnobirthing vs non attendance:

  • 52% less likely to have non-elective caesareans 

  • 40% less likely to have opioid intervention

  • 90% felt empowered

  • 90% felt excited!

Hypnobirthing Australia stands as the country's fastest growing and premier childbirth program. With its modern approach and its proven effectiveness, this course offers you a distinct advantage in preparing for childbirth.

What is covered in this course?

    • Introduction to the positive mindset of hypnobirthing

    • How our brain is wired to birth

    • The role of our caregivers

    • Mind/Body connections

    • What is 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 cycle, causes of fear and how it affects our labour

    • Re-programming the Subconscious

    • Birthing environment

    • The language of empowered birthing & The power of affirmations

    • 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

    • Bonding with baby

    • Choices in maternity care & birth preferences

    • Common interventions, informed decisions, birth partner advocacy

    • Preparing the body during pregnancy

    • Why does Pelvic Floor matter

    • Techniques that help reduce risk of perineal injury

    • Inductions - things you’re not always told

    • Achieving a natural start to labour

    • Maintaining a healthy diet

    • Optimising bubs position

    • Instant relaxation techniques

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

    • What to expect weeks leading up to birth

    • Signs of labour

    • What to expect through labour (membranes releasing etc)

    • Birth partner’s role

    • Fear release

    • Upright positioning, movement and birth positions

    • Using water during birth

    • Cord clamping & placenta delivery

    • Postpartum recovery

    • Undisturbed bonding & breastfeeding time – skin-to-skin

    • What to expect afterwards

    • Practice routine for birth