I am a trained Doula through Childbirth International and received certification August 2007 June 29th - July 2nd 2007 I trained and certified as a Hypnobabies Instructor and offer classes in my area.

Comfort Birth

Michael C Robertson, CD(CBI), HCHI

• Doula
• Child Birth Educator

A doula provides continuous support. This support begins when your labor starts (or at whatever point the mother requests her presence) through birth, and for approximately 2 hours following the birth.
I offer help and advice on comfort measures such as breathing, relaxation, movement, positioning, and massage.
I also assists families with gathering information about the course of labor and their options. My most critical role is providing continuous emotional reassurance and comfort.
I attend home births and hospital births; medicated births and un-medicated births. I can be the primary support for the mother, or can be an additional member of her existing labor support team.
I specialize in non-medical skills, and do not perform clinical tasks, or diagnose medical conditions. I do not make decisions for my clients. My goal is to provide the support and information needed to help the birthing mother have a safe and satisfying birth as the mother defines it.
Birth can be easy, comfortable, enjoyable. I know that from experience. Hypnobabies can help.
I teach Hypnosis for Childbirth using Hypnobabies. For more information visit http://www.comfortbirth.com or http://www.hypnobabies.com The Hypnobabies Advantage
• 70% of Hypnobabies students give birth without any pain (or drugs).
• Complete childbirth education (18 hours), including information on nutrition and consumer issues.
• More materials! Each Hypnobabies student receives 5 hypnosis cds, the Workbook, the book Back Labor No More, a cd for the Birth Partner, the Quick Reference Guide for Labor, the Birth Partner’s Guide, 5 scripts on paper, and a perineal massage booklet.
• A birth rehearsal in class 6 to really boost your confidence on how to use the Hypnobabies techniques during labor.
• Eyes open hypnosis techniques that allow you to remain completely comfortable as you move around and talk during labor.
• Hypno-anesthesia techniques that allow you to easily remain truly comfortable during your birthing time.
We are not a regular birth hypnosis class. Hypnobabies is very detailed and successful, uses medical hypnotic anesthesia techniques, from Gerald Kein’s amazing Painless Childbirth program, as opposed to simple visualization and imagery, and contains the same kinds of hypnotic scripts used by people who undergo surgery with hypnosis as their only anesthetic.
We also *fully* train our Birth Partners by giving them their own Birth Partner’s relaxation CD, and their own detailed Birth Partner’s Guide for labor, which allows them to fully grasp their role in the preparation for baby’s birth as well as their partner’s birthing. This is unique to Hypnobabies and we are very proud of this feature.
Hypnobabies can also be successfully used by Single Mothers or those whose partners will not be participating in their birth preparation process. All our hypnosis techniques can be easily learned, practiced and used alone, or with a Birth Partner or doula.
Hypnobabies classes also provide excellent and Complete Childbirth Education, lacking in most birth hypnosis programs. Providing this *Complete Childbirth Education* ensures that our wonderful students will not have to take other natural childbirth classes whose philosophy is so different that it negates what they have learned in Hypnobabies. “Pain management and coping skills” are actually opposite of what is learned in Hypnobabies; we teach Pain Elimination by using real hypnosis.