What Is HypnoBirthing®?

Imagine approaching your baby's birth feeling calm, prepared, and confident instead of fearful or overwhelmed. That's the heart of HypnoBirthing®.

HypnoBirthing® is an internationally recognized childbirth education program taught in 46 countries around the world. It combines evidence-based birth education with deep relaxation, breathing techniques, visualization, and mindfulness to help parents prepare mentally, physically, and emotionally for birth.

Rather than simply teaching you how to get through labor, HypnoBirthing® helps you understand how your body is naturally designed to work during birth and provides practical tools to work with your body—not against it.

What You'll Learn

During your HypnoBirthing® classes, you'll learn:

  • Deep relaxation techniques

  • Specialized breathing for pregnancy and birth

  • Guided visualization and self-hypnosis

  • Comfort measures for labor

  • The important role of your birth partner

  • How the body naturally works during labor

  • Evidence-based information about pregnancy and birth

  • Nutrition and healthy pregnancy habits

  • How to make informed decisions throughout your birth experience

Is HypnoBirthing® Right for Me?

Whether you're planning a home birth, birth center birth, or hospital birth, HypnoBirthing® is designed to support every family.

Many parents choose HypnoBirthing® because they hope for a natural, low-intervention birth. Others simply want to feel more informed, confident, and prepared for whatever their birth journey brings. The techniques you learn can be valuable whether your birth is unmedicated, includes an epidural, is induced, or becomes a cesarean birth.

Our goal isn't to help you achieve one specific type of birth—it's to help you approach birth feeling calm, prepared, and empowered.

HypnoBirthing® Outcomes

Studies and data collected by the HypnoBirthing® Institute have reported:

  • Lower rates of medical interventions and surgical births

  • Decreased use of oxytocics or artificial rupture of membranes (AROM)

  • Shorter first and second stages of labor

  • Reduced use of analgesia or other pain medications

  • Fewer preterm and low birth weight babies

  • Babies who are often alert and able to nurse soon after birth

  • Higher-than-average APGAR scores reported among newborns

These outcomes are based on data reported by the HypnoBirthing® Institute. Every pregnancy and birth is unique, and no childbirth education program can guarantee a specific outcome.