Hypnocalm Birth Skills
Hypnocalm birth skills workshop is designed to prepare and equip you for your journey into labour with all the techniques you need fto help you achieve a positive, calm and confident approach to birth.
Hypnocalm birth skills involves plenty of practise and relaxation, so if you would like to bring along a birth partner, helper or your doula, you are more than welcome!
If you would like to come on your own, please don't be shy as you will learn techniques to help you if you prefer not to have someone with you.
If you would prefer to have the workshop in your own home, either individually or with a group of friends, please let me know as this can be arranged.
This workshop will take approximately 3 hours to complete and covers the following:
- Relaxation positions
- Breathing techniques
- Positions for labour and birth
- Touch techniques
- Mindfulness techniques
- Distraction techniques
- Labour tools
The fee for this course is £30 in a group setting, £60 if taught privately
Hypnocalm Practical Parenting
Hypnocalm practical parenting workshops are held in Northampton and are designed to help you to prepare for the arrival of your new baby, and provides you with the right tools to help you prepare for your journey into parenthood.
This workshop provides you with an opportunity to discover how much your life will change once your baby is born, and how you can put strategies in place to help you stay a calm and relaxed parent instead of a stressed out one!
Topics in this workshop include:
- Your baby's first week
- Feeding your baby
- Co sleeping
- How to interpret your baby's cries
- How your relationships will change
- Setting priorities
- How much time will a baby need?
- Calming a crying baby
- Basic baby care
- Relaxation for postnatal recovery
- How you might feel after the birth
- Planning your babymoon
The fee for this workshop is £40 in a group setting, £60 if taught privately
BabyCalm
New babies often cry lots and sleep little, and sometimes parents are not sure what to do when this happens. Many new parents just like you may lack the right support and understanding at a time when you need it most.
Serena is a trained BabyCalm Teacher in Northampton and is here to help new parents like you right from the very start. BabyCalm workshops and classes can be taken at any time during pregnancy and from birth until your baby is 20 weeks old.
We help you to understand your newborn and help to facilitate the bonding process between you and your baby. This very important and special time which you have with your baby helps you to feel confident in calming your baby which in turn will help you to de-stress and become much happier and confident as a parent.
Workshops can be taken privately in your own home, either with a group of friends or independently.
The workshops and classes are as follows:
- Antenatal BabyCalm Workshop (3 hours)
- Why do babies cry?
- Discuss any topic of choosing(as long as it is baby related!)
- Life for a baby in utero
- Life for a baby the first week after birth
- How you can help a baby feel more at home after birth
- Realistic expectations of sleep-baby and you!
- Swaddling
- Co sleeping
- Movement
The fee for this course is £75 when taught privately, £30 for a group setting
- BabyCalm colic and crying workshop ( 2-3 hours)
- Debrief your birth experience
- Life for a baby in utero
- Life for a baby during the first few weeks
- What is colic?
- Swaddling (demo)
- Babywearing (demo and practice)
- Movement
- White noise
- Calming techniques
The fee for this course is £75 if taught privately. £30 in a group setting
BabyCalm 4 week Course
- Wants and needs of babies
- Babycalming tips
- BabyCalm touch therapy
- Sleep:expectations and realities
- Babywearing
- Tummy time
- Understand your baby's cries
- Understand your baby's developmental stages
- Encouraging confidence and independence
- Why you are a 'good mum'
- Relaxation and coping techniques for mum
- Plus much more...!
Fees for this course are: £150 when taught privately, £65 in a group setting
Free massage oil and babycalming cd when you enrol on this course
For further information about BabyCalm please visit www.babycalm.co.uk
www.easibirthing.co.uk
The easibirthing method is designed by Sharon Mustard who has extensive experience with teaching mothers to be to achieve a calm, confident and relaxed labour and birth using hypnosis.
Easibirthing teaches you simple breathing,relaxation, self hypnosis and visualisation techniques alongside stress and anxiety management which helps to prepare your mind and body for labour. The easibirthing method helps to reduce or eliminate fears which may block the onset and progression of labour.
Easibirthing helps to change your perception of birth and to provide you with pain management skills to help you build trust in your body so that you can go into labour feeling calm, confident and in control.
The benefits of this course are many!:
- May help to shorten labour
- Eliminate or reduce fears which could block the progression of labour
- Increase positive emotions during pregnancy
- Reduce the likelihood of postnatal depression
- Increase and encourage the loving bond between you and your baby
- Increase confidence and your beliefs in the birthing process
- Baby will be born calm and responsive
- Diminish the need for medication(unless it is necessary for you to need it)
- Reduces the likelihood of caesarean section
- Increased liklihood of a normal vaginal birth
- Promotes lactation for breastfeeding
The fee for the easibirthing programme is £240
Five 1.5 hour sessions
or
First session-1.5 hours, then two 3 hour sessions.
