Ep 12: Kerry Tuschhoff Introduces and Explains the Hypnobabies Program

As always, thank you SO MUCH to our sponsors! Stephanie Sibbio’s Glowing Mama To Be Course: https://glowing-mama-courses.thinkific.com/  (15% off with the code: happyhomebirth15 ) Instagram: stephsibbiofitness Hatched at Home-Midwife Carrie LaChapelle: www.hatchedathome.com https://www.facebook.com/MidwifeCarrieLachapelleLMCPM/ 864-907-6363   Show Notes: -Kerry is the founder and creator of Hypnobabies, which was created in 2001. -She created the program after having her own two births.  At that time, she was a Bradley Instructor. -Both of her babies were posterior (“sunny side up”) which caused for labors that she describes as extremely painful.  She felt that the Bradley Method was wonderful for teaching about labor, but did not help her cope well enough with the pain. -After 26 hours of pain, she had an epidural, which she says helped her become a more understanding childbirth educator- she could certainly understand the need/desire for a mother to have an epidural. - During her second birth, her sister saw her in agony and said, “It should never have to be this hard.” -Kerry set forth to find a way to make childbirth easier for women. -She soon saw a tv program about a doctor who was using hypnosis for his patients, and how their birthings were going much better. -Kerry went to a training for this.  She then attended births using this method, and the women were all still clearly in pain. -She decided there was something else that she needed to find.  She became a Certified Hypnotherapist, and took several specialty courses.  One of which was Gerald Kein’s “Painless Childbirth” program. -She transformed Kein’s information with his excited permission, into a childbirth education program.  -“The goal of Hypnobabies is to have the easiest, most comfortable birthing possible” by using deep, somnambulistic hypnosis.  -Hypnobabies is considered “medical grade” hypnosis.  This type of hypnosis is used for patients who are allergic to anesthesia.  They use this type of hypnosis when having surgery.   What Makes Hypnobabies Different?! - Kerry’s philosophy is that if you are learning childbirth hypnosis, you need to learn your childbirth education at the same place.  This ensures that the hypnosis and education support a mother’s mindset and belief that she can in fact have an easy, joyful birth experience. The Hypnobabies program covers all aspects of childbirth education: nutrition, how a mother can help keep herself low-risk, the stages of labor, how to use hypnosis throughout those stages, hypnosis for pregnancy, selecting a compatible care provider and birthing place, questions to ask care providers, information about doulas and midwives, natural comfort measures for pregnancy, risk/benefit analysis for interventions, creating a birth plan, informed consent, optimal fetal positioning, anatomy and physiology of late pregnancy & birthing, avoiding induction and cesarean, benefits of delayed cord clamping, birth partner preparation, and even a birthing rehearsal.  -Hypnobabies even provides information about new mothers and babies: how to take care of the new mother and baby, etc.  -Hypnobabies provides a “change of plans” script: This allows mom to stay in hypnosis, even though something might be changing from the original birth plan. -Eyes Open Childbirth Hypnosis- this is unique to Hypnobabies.  Moms learn to walk and talk an change positions all without losing focus in hypnosis. -Hypnobabies Birth Visualization Track:  Mom goes through a mental birth rehearsal (the way they want it to be) as she listens to this track.  Practicing whatever they want to do or accomplish helps on the actual day of labor… the repetition programs your subconscious mind to produce the birth you want.  It’s practically a blueprint for the birthing. -Joyful Pregnancy Affirmations Track: They really do change the state of mind of the mother during her pregnancy.  -Kerry mentions that birth often times progresses more quickly than expected