HypnoBirthing Classes are Coming to WLC!

HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Education Classes

• About HypnoBirthing® The Mongan MethodHypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing.  This amazing program teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner.  You will learn how to call upon your body's own natural relaxant and thus lessen, or even eliminate, discomfort and the need for medication.  When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all animal mothers in nature.
  HypnoBirthing® will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing instincts.  With HypnoBirthing® you will not be in a trance or a sleep state.  You will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.
  
• HypnoBirthing® Advantages
  *Teaches deep levels of relaxation to eliminate the fear that causes tension and, thus, pain.
  *Greatly reduces and often eliminates the need for chemical painkillers and drugs.
  *Shortens the first phase of labor.
  *Leaves mother alert, fresh, awake, and with energy.
  *Helps keep oxygen supplied to baby during birthing.
  *Reduces the need for an episiotomy.
  *Reduces and often eliminates fatigue during labor.
  *Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm birth for themselves and their baby.
  *Gives the birthing companion an integral role in the birthing.
  *Embraces the concept of pre-birth parenting.
  *Teaches breathing techniques that allow a woman to gently breathe her baby into the world without the violence of hard, physical pushing.
  
• You Will Learn:
  *Everything you need to know to achieve safer, easier and more comfortable birth
  *To explode the myth that pain is a necessary accompaniment to labor
  *What's wrong with labor as it exists with most other childbirth methods
  *Techniques of deep relaxation to help you eliminate the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome
  *How your body is naturally designed to conceive, nurture and birth your baby with ease and comfort
  *To create your body's own natural relaxant, the only safe labor enhancement
  *Natural ways to bring your body into labor without artificial chemical induction
  *How you and your birthing companion can create a birthing environment that is calm, serene and joyful, rather than tense and stressful
  *Gentle birthing techniques that allow you to breathe your baby into the world without the violence of hard physical pushing
  *To use your natural birthing instincts to birth your baby in a way that most mirrors the way that nature intended
  
• About your Instructor:
  Kelli Paulus is a DONA trained birth doula and HypnoBirthing instructor.  She attends births in the Chicagoland area and specializes in supporting parents to be in their desire to birth their babies in a calm, gentle manner.  Kelli lives with her husband, Kevin, and young son, Sawyer, who was birthed using HypnoBirthing in 2009.  For more information, please contact her at 815-603-3530 or at Kelli.m.paulus@gmail.com.
  
• About the Class:
  The class consists of Five 2 1/2 hour classes on Saturday afternoons from 12:00-2:30 and is focused on helping parents achieve an easy, comfortable birthing experience, while eliminating fears and tension surrounding birth and parenthood.
  The cost of the class is $350 which includes all materials (text book, CD's, Handouts and more).  Pre-registration is required and a $50.00 non-refundable deposit to hold your spot can be paid via PayPal, over the phone, or in office. 
  
• Session Information:
  *Summer Session 1: 6/4, 6/11, 6/18, 6/25, and 7/9
  *Summer Session 2: 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20, and 8/27
  
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