Jessica Stone Pregnancy and Birth Education

I am a Registered Midwife and Qualified Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner with a passion for empowering women through education, preparation, and positivity. My classes cover a range of techniques to assist you in preparing for the birth of your baby, and are uniquely suited to your meet individual needs as an expecting parent. I aim to provide you with the tools to achieve the calm, positive birthing experience you envisage for yourself, whether you are choosing to birth at home or in hospital, with a private midwife, obstetrician, or public care providers; natural birth or caesarean. By the completion of my course you will be fully prepared to calmly face whatever turn your birthing journey takes as an informed, empowered, and completely relaxed birthing Goddess.

Hypnobirthing Australia™ provides a uniquely Australian childbirth education course which draws upon the teachings of many natural birthing advocates from throughout history and the world and has been developed by Melissa Spilsted. The Hypnobirthing Australia course is the most up-to-date, Australian hypnobirth program available.

When attending my course you will receive expert tuition, a professionally printed folio of resources that are suited to Australian’s and our models of maternity care, and several professionally recorded and mastered Australian accent practice tracks – to assist you in your preparation for a beautiful, calm and positive birth.

My classes are taught across four three hour sessions for private clients or over two consecutive full days for groups. Individualised options are always available.
Each class is made up of theory (audio-visual, spoken explanations and interactive discussions) and practical (active relaxation and breathing exercises, hands-on massage techniques and hypnosis practice) components.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Creating & maintaining a positive mindset

- Introduction to positive mindset of hypnobirthing
- Causes of Fear (including history) and how it affects our labour
- The role of our caregivers
- Mind/body connection
- What is hypnosis and how will we use it for birthing?
- Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome – how fear affects labour
- My amazing uterus– understanding the physiology behind birthing
- Our hormones are our friends
- Re-programming the subconscious
- Birthing Environment
- The language for empowered birthing
- Creating a calm birthing space
- The power of affirmations

Unit 2: Choices, knowledge & tools for empowered birthing

- Conditioning techniques leading up to birth
- Hypnosis tracks, birth music, aromatherapy
- Releasing endorphins through touch
- Choices in maternity care
- Maintaining a healthy diet
- Staying Active – exercise during pregnancy
- Tips for Optimal Foetal Positioning
- Introducing our toolkit for birth
- The importance of facial relaxation
- Relaxation Breathing – a skill for life
- Surge Breathing – the best tool ever!
- The ‘urge’ to push/bear down – breathing down

Unit 3: Preparing mind and body for birth

- Visualisations for pregnancy & birth
- Pre-birth bonding
- Bonding with baby at birth
- 'Guess date’ – a normal range of pregnancy
- Artificial Inductions
- Achieving a natural start to labour
- Instant relaxation techniques
- Self-hypnosis techniques to practice alone
- Using triggers, anchors, suggestion, self hypnosis during pregnancy & birth
- Hypnosis/Relaxation Scripts & Prompts for partners

Unit 4: Birth – bringing it all together

- Birth Preferences – the importance of open communication with your caregivers
- Special circumstances
- Membranes Releasing
- Questions to help you make good decisions
- Birth companion as advocate
- Your rights as a child bearing woman
- Breech or Posterior – options & positions
- Hypnosis for releasing fears
- What to expect through labour and birth
- When to call the midwife/go to the hospital
- Birthing positions
- The birth partner’s role
- Cord clamping & placenta delivery
- Undisturbed bonding/breastfeeding time – skin to skin
- Hypnosis – rehearsal for birth