We are dedicated to helping expectant couples achieve holistic, easy and comfortable natural childbirth using hypnosis. In Hypnobabies Classes, our expectant mothers go within to birth their babies, trusting in their body's own strength and their mind's incredible power to produce a birthing with little or no discomfort. This very successful childbirth hypnosis program has now been expanded to include a Home Study course for those who choose to prepare for their birthing in private.

CONTACT US:

Hypnobabies Office: (714) 952-BABY (2229) M-Th, 9AM to 2PM, Pacific Time.

Thank you from The Hypnobabies Team!

Founder and Director of Hypnobabies, Kerry Tuschhoff:

*Former 10 year Bradley Instructor. *Certified Hypnobabies Instructor

*Certified Hypnotherapist.

*Hypno-Doula Trainer

Hypnobabies Instructor Trainer

*Breastfeeding Success Class Instructor

* Pregnancy Nutrition Counselor

* Lecture Speaker

* Author

My favorite quote: "Babies are such a nice way to start people!"

I was a Bradley Method natural childbirth instructor for 10 years and received an invaluable education in natural childbirth before enrolling in the HypnoBirthing teacher certification course. After taking it and teaching a few HB classes, I soon realized that I needed to know much more about hypnosis in order to be able to help each woman with her personal issues and also her hypnotic depth. I then took a course in hypnosis and hypnotherapy and began writing my own scripts. I found and networked with hypnotherapists all over the USA, and even in the UK, who openly shared concepts, ideas, scripts and tips on how to improve my childbirth hypnosis course. My students definitely benefited from this and soon were having very nice births.

I then went on and became a certified Hypnotherapist, found Gerald Kein's Painless Childbirth Program and became trained in that. I created the Hypnobabies method using these incredible hypnosis techniques and that is what I teach now in my local classes and home study course. Many of my moms have pain-free and fear-free births and it is very gratifying to me. Even the ones who do experience discomfort at times have wonderful birthing experiences, since the labors are shorter and much easier, and the find they can get back on track quickly with this program.

I have 2 children, and neither of them were Hypnobabies, however their births taught me a great deal about what I wanted for my students. I knew there had to be a way that women could actually look forward to, and enjoy their baby's births. Indeed I have found it and it has made all the difference in the world to so many women, their Birth Partners, and their precious babies.

I love what I do, and I eat, drink and breathe my passion for helping more women have pain-free and easy birth experiences. All babies deserve to be born into the world in this gentle way; unmedicated, gently and happy!

I hope that if you choose Hypnobabies as your Childbirth Hypnosis program, you enjoy it to the fullest and look at your practice each day as an opportunity to take some much needed time for yourself, and to bond with your baby! I want you to know that I will always be available and willing to answer any questions you may have about Hypnobabies or birthing in general, so please join our Yahoo Hypnobabies e-mail group. And..if you feel so inclined, after your baby is born, if you would like to share your birth story with me, I would so love to hear it, and even post it on my website as encouragement for other hypno-moms!

You can do this! - Kerry

It is our deepest desire that all women be able to give birth with love and joy, and that all babies be born in a gentle and peaceful way. Our HypnoMoms easily achieve this by turning inside themselves and using the incredible power of their own minds to create a new vision and belief system about childbirth. All women know how to give birth, and hypnotherapy simply reinforces that. Part of the Hypnobabies program is to help each woman rediscover her own strength and abilities through a holistic alternative. Our self-hypnosis exercises and CDs are invaluable to this process, creating the deepest physical and mental relaxation possible, and implanting positive suggestions for fear release and pain elimination. The result is truly amazing and allows our goals to be met: an easy and comfortable birthing for Mom and a joyful beginning for Baby.

Here at Hypnobabies, our Mission is very clear:

Hypnobabies exists, and all of our staff and Instructors work diligently every day, for the following ideals:

To help every expectant mother prepare for her baby's birth in a way that helps her fully enjoy the rest of her pregnancy in health and peace, so that she eagerly looks forward to her birthing day.

To help every expectant mother have the easiest, safest and most comfortable childbirth experience she can, allowing her to fully enjoy her birthing, and pass that legacy along to her children, friends and family.

To educate and support all Birth Partners, so that they too can look forward to and enjoy the birth of their child with confidence, retaining the memory of childbirth as a beautiful, inspiring life event.

To help babies be born as gently and safely as possible, so that their entrance into our world can be one of joy and wonder, quiet and peace.

To support our Hypno-Moms, no matter what their choices are, before, during and after their babies are born. Every mother counts; every pre-nate is loved; every birth is a gift.

To educate the medical community on the benefits of natural childbirth, how to work with couples who have chosen this wonderful way to give birth, and to respect each birthing woman's choices as she comes to them for prenatal care and birthing assistance.

To educate the natural childbirth community on the special needs and desires of Hypnobabies birthing couples, towards an easier and more enjoyable experience for all.

Healers and Birth Professionals - If you are dedicated to helping women and their babies have a much easier and more comfortable birthing, we'd love to have you become a Hypnobabies Instructor. This is childbirth hypnosis that really WORKS!

Hypnobabies Classes are held in over 50 cities in the U.S. and are the only childbirth hypnosis classes that use Gerald Kein's famous Painless Childbirth Techniques. Check www.Hypnobabies.com (Classes Section) for our Certified Hypnobabies Instructor's Listings.

Hypnobabies Class Materials:

Your 175 page Hypnobabies workbook

7 CDs for the Hypno-Mom

1 CD for the Birth Partner

The Hypnobabies Quick Reference Guide for Labor

The Birth Partner's Guide Booklet

Techniques from The book, "Back Labor No More"

5 Hypnobabies scripts in a spiral bound book

Your Perineal Massage Booklet

Your “Rights of Childbearing Women” booklet

6 Handouts

Listed on our Find a Class page (Classes Section)at www.Hypnobabies.com are Certified Hypnobabies Instructors and you can check to see if a class is being taught near you.

We now have Certified Hypnobabies Instructors in Arizona, Florida, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Hawaii and Washington State!! Soon - Coming to a city near you......

.....using Hypnobabies? The benefits are many:

The Hypno-mom will use fewer drugs or no drugs, which means less risk of side effects for mother and baby, due to elimination

of the Fear/Tension/Pain Syndrome, and using post-hypnotic suggestions.

Most Hypno-mothers have shorter labors since there is less resistance of the birthing muscles when pain and fear are minimized

or eliminated.

The birthing woman generally has much more energy throughout first and second stage, due to a total relaxation throughout the birthing process.

The birthing environment is much more calm and peaceful when the natural childbirth mother is comfortable.

Breech and posterior babies can be turned using hypnosis.

Blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature can be lowered and nausea, back and hip pain eliminated with hypnosis during pregnancy and labor.

There are fewer interventions for failure to progress and therefore fewer fetal and maternal complications during labor.

The deep relaxation in Hypnobabies sessions has also helped many a nervous dad to enjoy their partner's pregnancy and childbirth, and the skills that the Hypno-couple learns for relaxation and hypnosis will benefit them for the rest of their lives.

Hypno-couples are "deprogrammed" from the usual negativity of childbirth stories and scenarios they've always heard, by way of training in Hypnobabies classes or and audio CDs which have positive birthing messages. This automatically allows them a much better attitude and instills confidence in birthing.

"Eyes Open Childbirth Hypnosis"

Our Hypnobabies Home Study Course for Expectant Mothers is for women who want to ENJOY their baby's natural birth by using hypnosis to eliminate pain and fear, and cannot attend a Hypnobabies Class, or simply want to study on their own. Hypnobabies Home Study Course is an advanced Hypnosis for Childbirth course, using CDs and our Hypnobabies Workbook to prepare for birthing with little or no discomfort.

Hypnobabies is based on Master Hypnotist Gerald Kein's Painless Childbirth Program and is extremely successful. It is the only childbirth hypnosis program that teaches "Eyes Open Childbirth Hypnosis", allowing the birthing mother to walk and talk and move around during labor, and yet remain deeply in hypnosis, relaxed and physically comfortable throughout. This is a very important feature for labor, to enable you to use upright positions for descent and positioning of your baby. You must be prepared to learn self-hypnosis techniques which you will practice on a daily basis until your baby is born, and this is such and easy and naturally enjoyable daily routine!

Hypnobabies is also a COMPLETE childbirth education course, with a Nutritional Program, Pre-natal Exercises, Birth Plan, Optimal Fetal Positioning, Avoiding Back Labor, Anatomy and Physiology, Birthing Choices, Comfort and Safety in Pregnancy, Consumer Issues, Staying Healthy and Low Risk, Unexpected Situations, and much more. Very Comprehensive!

You'll use our Hypnobabies Workbook, CDs and hypnosis scripts to train the inner mind that contractions in labor will be felt only as pressure, tightening, pushing and baby movement sensations. Hypnobabies uses the same kind of hypnosis techniques that people employ when preparing for surgery without any medication, which is called hypno-anesthesia. Our classes also teach the Hypnobabies Birth Partners how to fully support our Hypno-moms, although Hypnobabies can also be used very successfully by single mothers. Although not every woman will have a completely pain-free unmedicated birthing experience, our success rate is far above any other childbirth method, which is very gratifying!

Want more information on our Hypnobabies Home Study course, directly from other moms who are using it? Please join our free Yahoo Hypnobabies group, (for expectant mothers only) to ask questions and get support and encouragement on your hypno-journey!

I have a dream.....

A dream that all women will choose spiritual, intuitive childbirth; that all babies will be born without medication in their systems, easily able to breathe and nurse and search their parent's eyes with wonder and love; that they will never endure hours of fright and stress hearing their mothers scream and moan in childbirth, before they slide out into our world.

This dream becomes more of a reality every day as more and more women use the incredible power of their minds and hearts to help them achieve their spiritual birthing. They go within, where all the answers lie, meet and bond with their precious babies long before birth, and grow amazingly in strength, confidence and trust in nature's most perfect plan;

That they have always intuitively known how to give birth.

I simply remind them of this power and ability, and it is the best job in the world!

Join me if you share my dream.

~ Kerry Tuschhoff, HCHI, CHt, CI ~

Founder/Director of Hypnobabies

Our Hypnobabies program has become so successful that we are now training Childbirth Educators, Doulas, Midwives and Hypnotherapists to become Hypnobabies Instructors. If you have the passion and love of working with expectant couples, and want to provide them with an excellent and very successful childbirth hypnosis program, contact us at (714) 952-BABY (2229) for more information. Unlike other childbirth hypnosis programs, Hypnobabies is a complete childbirth education course, and cannot be taught along with another childbirth or hypno-birth program, used to "supplement" one, or "added to" hypnotherapy sessions. Hypnobabies is always taught in 6 (3 hour) classes using only our extremely comprehensive Hypnobabies materials. The results are amazing!

Our Hypnobabies Instructor Training is a 4 day course, and each participant will have a background in both childbirth and hypnosis, and a love of working with expectant families. The cost for our training course is $595.00 per person, which includes all course materials. Course fees can be paid by PayPal, Credit Card, Personal Check or a Monthly Payment Plan. There is a Required Reading list, (books not included with course fee) which will be sent to you after you apply to our program. Each Prospective trainee will have an interview with our Program Coordinator to see if Hypnobabies is a good fit for you before sending an application.

A background in hypnosis means 50 hours of study from a reputable school of hypnosis, and our participants need only get basic hypnosis training. *Hypnotherapy Certification is not required.* If you cannot take a local hypnosis course or would like self-study options, Hypnobabies has an affordable self-study Introduction to Hypnosis Course by Roy Hunter that can be ordered for $190.00. Considering that most hypnosis courses cost between $700 and $3500, we feel ours is excellent and contains what is needed to complete the Hypnobabies hypnosis requirements for much less out of pocket expense and working at your own pace. You may contact us if you are interested in ordering it, at (714) 952-BABY (2229).

A background in childbirth means doula, childbirth, midwifery or nursing training. For those without a background in Childbirth, our one day Introduction to Childbirth Class is mandatory and is scheduled on the day before each Hypnobabies Instructor Training. This class costs $100.00 and consists of invaluable information on pregnancy and childbirth, taught through videos and a resource workbook.

As a Prospective Hypnobabies Instructor, you'll have a telephone interview with me, to see where your heart is, what your professional background has been, and to make sure all of your training questions are answered. I want to make sure that Hypnobabies fulfills your expectations for becoming a hypnotic childbirth educator, is a good fit for you, and that you'll be an asset to your community as well as our dedicated Hypnobabies team! After our Interview, if you've been accepted into our Training Program, you'll be sent an application, and you'll be on your Hypnobabies journey, working towards a beautiful future with expectant couples, a process we all love so much here at Hypnobabies.

In our Hypnobabies Instructor Training Program, you will be both student and teacher as you easily learn Hypnobabies... class by class, participating fully in all facets of your training. You will feel completely confident at the end of your training that you are qualified to successfully teach Hypnobabies and able to promote and market your classes as well. Our 200 page Instructor's Manual is so detailed that our course teaches itself, and you will be provided with all Hypnobabies materials that you need to easily begin your journey as a Hypnobabies Instructor.

After training, each Hypnobabies Instructor will send in their Final Exam before becoming certified as a Hypnobabies Instructor, and all class materials for future Hypnobabies students will be ordered from Hypnobabies Network. All Hypnobabies Instructors will then join our online Instructor' support group, where we have files full of free Hypnobabies documents and forms, fliers, marketing, advertising and promotional resources of all kinds, as well as answers to frequently asked questions and direct responses to inquiries from the leaders of Hypnobabies and other instructors. This helps you to get started teaching Hypnobabies very easily while networking and learning from others. Our Instructor's e-mail group is very positive and supportive; a sisterhood of women who love helping young couples have the birth of their dreams. Newbies welcome; bring your ideas to share!

If you are a childbirth professional interested in helping expectant couples have an amazingly easy birth experience, please call me at (714) 952-BABY (2229) for more information. I cannot tell you how awe-inspiring it is to watch a Hypnobabies mom during labor resting quietly and calmly during a contraction, fully 9 cm dilated and looking as though she is having a refreshing nap! She then opens her eyes and smiles, asking for a drink and a change of position, completely relaxed and happy. YES! Our minds are amazingly powerful, controlling our bodies completely and we Hypnobabies Instructors easily and naturally teach women how to use their own minds to the fullest.

We are changing the way women give birth, the way babies are born, and the perception of natural childbirth in the world. Join us..... if you are too.

Kerry Tuschhoff, HCHI, CHt, CI

Founder and Director of Hypnobabies

Many people think hypnosis is like the stage hypnosis shows they've seen where people seem to be unable to control themselves, act goofy and provide entertainment for the audience.

In reality it is a state of focused concentration where the body and mind relax together. Hypnosis is very simply: a natural state of mind in which the body and mind are extremely relaxed and yet the mind is also highly aware and focused. As you will read below, we are all in states of hypnosis many times a day automatically, so hypnosis is a very normal state of being that along with it's ability to provide emotional and physical healing, has been widely and successfully used within the medical community for pain relief and hypno-anesthesia.

Your Amazing and Wonderful Mind!

The Conscious part of your mind is what you are reading this with, and when you are awake, it is aware of all that goes on in and around yourself, what you are feeling, thinking and experiencing, allowing you to know what you are doing and why.

Think of your Subconscious mind as an internal computer that houses thousands of computer programs on which everything you have ever seen, heard, experienced, thought or believed are stored. The belief systems housed here are what will actually create your reality when it comes to reprogramming for childbirth. You are not consciously aware of these subconscious processes, but they influence how you feel and think based on what you believe. It is here, in the inner mind, where positive change takes place.

These two parts of the mind actually mesh together nicely when we are children, up to about the age of 6-8 years of age, without any interference. That is why children are so suggestible; so easily influenced. They are literally in a state of hypnosis all of the time, open to suggestion.

After about 6 - 8 years of age we develop a division between the conscious and subconscious parts of the mind, called the Critical Faculty.

If you think of your conscious mind as the outer circle in this diagram and your subconscious as the solid, inner circle, the Critical Faculty is the guardian that filters millions of pieces of information coming into the subconscious at all times. It only allows a few pieces of information to pass through at any one time, so getting to the subconscious mind is a process of distracting the "guardian", so that we can create positive change.

In Hypnobabies, our goal is to make the guardian take a nap so that we can access the inner mind and give it new concepts! The fastest and easiest way is by using hypnosis. When you relax your body and then your mind, a state of hypnosis is achieved in which the Critical Faculty can get a rest and you can access and re-program your subconscious computer for your own good.

You are not taking anything out; you are simply giving yourself new belief systems that will help you to have an easy and comfortable birth. Think of yourself now as a computer re-programmer. Using hypnosis, as these new concepts become a part of your inner mind and belief system, your subconscious mind is like a child and will take everything literally, accepting them with ease as long as they continue coming on a daily basis. It is also kind of lazy and would like to just go back to thinking the way it always has, so you must constantly reinforce your hypnotic suggestions or it will only work partially for you. As much effort as you put in, that's how much compensation you will reap. An interesting fact about hypnosis is that the more you practice it, the easier it gets. Each time you allow yourself to enter hypnosis, you will go in easier, faster and deeper. This is simply exercising your mind, very much like physical exercise works on the body, and it will get stronger and more effective with each session.

All Hypnosis is Self-Hypnosis!

You are always in control of your mind and your body while in hypnosis. You choose to enter hypnosis, stay in hypnosis, accept the suggestions, and emerge from hypnosis at all times.

Hypnosis is a state of relaxation in which you are;

1. In total control and.

2. Can accept or reject any suggestions you hear

Hypnosis is not;

1. Being controlled by someone else

2. A loss of self control

3. A state of unconsciousness

4. A state of sleep

EXAMPLES

Examples of everyday hypnotic states which you have already experienced naturally:

1. Driving the car

2. Riding the elevator

3. Watching TV, movies, computer screens or video

4. Being bored by another person

5. Waking up and going to sleep

6. Daydreaming

So hypnosis is a very *natural* state of being that we all experience many times a day already.. to regenerate and renew..., and we are simply helping the process along during hypnosis sessions, just like programming a computer to produce a document, project or program that will produce positive results!