HypnobabiesNZ is a thorough preparation for childbirth course, that also teaches you valuable self-hypnosis techniques. You'll use your hypnobirthing techniques to produce a mental "anesthesia" throughout your body, using the power of your own mind. These are the same medical hypnosis techniques that some people use to create hypno-anesthesia for pain-free dental work or for surgeries without drugs! Hypnosis is not being asleep or under anyone else's spell or control, rather it is a state of hyper-awareness and focus. HypnobabiesNZ hypnobirthing is "eyes-open" hypnosis, meaning that you learn to bring yourself deeply into relaxation and medical-grade, somnambulistic hypnosis, and create hypnotic anesthesia, with the "drop of your finger". You then learn to "center" and strengthen that anesthesia effect in the middle, birthing part of your body. Then, with practice, you will be able to open your eyes, walk, talk and change positions as your baby's birthing dictates, all while remaining more comfortable, and still deeply in hypnosis. It is very easy, and actually quite pleasant to practice the Hypnobabies method. You simply listen and follow suggestions during a 35-45 minute main audio track each day until baby comes. You also practice your "eyes-open childbirth hypnosis", to reinforce your mental anesthesia and profound relaxation with the "drop of a finger" daily. One of the bonuses of this program is that HypnobabiesNZ thoroughly prepares our birth partner/fathers to support the birthing student as they use hypnosis techniques to give birth more easily and comfortably. Babies get to listen to the birth partner's voice as they read Mini-scripts to the pregnant partner (if you choose to work together on this), and babies associate the birth partner's voice with that happy, relaxed, endorphin-producing state that both they and their parents enjoy when deeply relaxed and in hypnosis.
