Evidence & Clinical Based Mindful Childbirth Education

Classes should be taken in your mid to late 2nd trimester so you and your partner can master the techniques.

Instructed by Doula Vonda

Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Gainesville, Lake City, Tallahassee

Mindful Birthing Benefits

Contemporary women in our culture hold an unprecedented fear of giving birth, to often associating it with excruciating pain, thereby causing their bodies to become unable to perform what should be a normal physiological function. HypnoBirthing® is a unique method of giving birth enhanced by meditation, deepening, visualization, relaxation and breathing techniques that allows a woman to use their natural abilities to bring about safer, easier, and more comfortable birthing. ( can also be used with an epidural).

HypnoBirthing® techniques teach woman how to release all negative thoughts about birth to free themselves of limiting thoughts and emotions that lead to pain-causing fear and resistant muscles. When giving birth with HypnoBirthing®, a mother is in a state of deep relaxation—awake, aware, and fully in control.

• Eliminates the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome before, during, and after birthing.
• Eliminates or greatly reduces the need for chemical painkillers.
• Shortens the first stage of labor by several hours.
• Eliminates fatigue during labor, leaving mother fresh, awake and with the energy for actual birthing.
• Eliminates the risk of hyperventilation from shallow breathing methods.
• Promotes special bonding of mother, baby, and birthing companion.
• More rapid postnatal recovery.
• Returns birthing to the beautiful, peaceful experience that nature intended.
• Creates a more integral role for the birthing companion !!

Have The Birth Experience You Desire

• Release Fears
• Increase your pain threshold with breathing
• Have a strong, confident voice and birth
• Breastfeeding
• Emotional Support
• Newborn Care
• Education and Comfort
• Positioning of Baby
• Preparing Body for Labor & Birth
• Reduce Stress and common pregnancy complaints

What You Will Learn

1st week

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

2nd week

Falling in Love with Your Baby/Preparing Mind & Body

The remarkable mind of your newborn baby—Prenatal bonding techniques

Rapid and instant self-relaxation techniques and deepening techniques

Breathing techniques for labor and birthing

Meditative relaxation and visualization

Selecting the right care provider

The Birth companion’s role in birthing

Preparing your body for birthing with nutrition massage and toning and more.

3rd week

Getting Ready to Welcome your Baby

Preparing Birth Preferences (birth plan)

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 and birthing

Releasing negative emotions, fears and limiting thoughts.

4th week

An Overview of Birthing – A Labor of Love

Onset of Labor – Thinning and Opening Phase

Birth explained simply

Settling in at the hospital or birthing center

Preparing for home birth

As labor moves along – passing time through labor

Hallmarks of labor

If labor rests or slows

Companion’s prompts

As labor advances – birthing with your baby

Protecting the natural birthing experience

Birth rehearsal imagery

Birth, Breathing Love, Bringing Life

Moving into birthing

Positions for baby's descent and birthing

Breathing baby down to birth

Baby moves to the breast

Family bonding with your baby

Childbirth classes.