Childbirth Classes in Tampa, FL
HYPNOBIRTHING® CHILDBIRTH CLASSES
A complete childbirth education experience for a calmer, more confident birth.
CHILDBIRTH CLASSES TAMPA
What is HypnoBirthing® ?
HypnoBirthing® (The Mongan Method) is a philosophy and a technique that helps you prepare for childbirth by releasing fear and building confidence. This method teaches you how to enter deep, tension-free relaxation—training your mind and body to work together in labor rather than resist the natural process.
Unlike some childbirth classes that focus solely on pain management or “phases and stages,” HypnoBirthing® helps you:
- Tune into your instincts
- Let go of fear-based conditioning
- Work with your body’s natural rhythms
- Experience birth as calm, empowering, and purposeful
Through gentle self-hypnosis and daily practice, you’ll find the space to slow down, recharge, and deeply connect with your baby, laying the groundwork for a powerful birth and parenting journey.
Why Choose HypnoBirthing®?
Doctors, midwives, doulas and birth books all suggest that relaxation is one of the greatest tools to help you in labor. Yet, in our fast paced society women are pressured to “do more” to prepare for baby, work, and the family. This can leave us feeling like a bundled bunch of nerves. On the other hand, slowing your pace and finding some time to wind down every day can greatly help you and your baby in many ways. It can assist your baby’s fetal development and prepare you to find your own productive pace for birth.
HypnoBirthing Childbirth Classes…
- Teach self-hypnosis and deep relaxation for labor
- Help reduce fear, tension, and pain in childbirth
- Strengthen your emotional and mental preparation for birth
- Support a deeper connection with your baby before and during birth
- Empower your partner with practical comfort techniques and hypnosis tools
- Create a more peaceful foundation for parenting
Utilizing self-hypnosis for labor is highly effective because birth is intricately linked with a women’s emotions. Hypnosis works with the part of the brain that governs feelings, motivation, and imagination. This is heightened during pregnancy. No matter how intelligent a woman is, she can’t “think” her baby out. She must surrender into the experience and hypnosis trains mothers-to-be how to “let-go”.
What You Will Learn
Each childbirth class builds on the last, giving you both education and guided hypnosis tools to use during labor and beyond.
You’ll learn:
- the hallmarks of labor, various comfort measures, and the best positions for birth
- how to listen to your body with confidence and to conserve energy with a relaxed state of focus
- the function of the nervous system, the operating system for the body, in relation to birth
- the natural expulsive reflex to bring baby out, rather than a coached style of pushing
- how partners can support you during labor
- the importance of skin to skin with baby after birth and basics on breastfeeding after birth
- different types of care providers and how to select the right one for your family
- key questions to ask care providers.
- self-hypnosis and visualization for labor
- breathing methods to support birth and reduce tension
- deepening techniques to enter “labor land”
- affirmations, mental rehearsal, and relaxation exercises
- tools to release limiting beliefs and past conditioning
Upcoming HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Classes Near Tampa, FL
Dates
Wednesdays: August 21, 28, Sept 4, 11, 18
Backup Date: Sept 25 (only used if a class is rescheduled due to birth attendance)
Times
6:30 p.m.-8:50 p.m
Each class is 2.5 hours
Please mark your calendar for all 6 dates.
What’s Included:
- 5 in-person sessions (with 1 extra scheduled in case of reschedule)
- The HypnoBirthing® Book by Marie Mongan
- 2 audio recordings for home practice
- Weekly “assignments” such as videos and breathing practice
- Optional journal prompts to prepare emotionally
- Expert guidance and real-time support
Partner Involvement
Partners are highly encouraged to attend all sessions and especially classes 3 & 4, where they will:
- Learn how to support and comfort the birthing person
- Practice hypnosis techniques
- Build confidence for their unique role in the birth
Location:
Labor of Love Birth Center, Lutz, FLChildbirth Class Fee:
Early Bird: $475 (when you sign up in July) Regular Price (after August 1): $575Scholarships + Payment Plans
If your budget is tight, you may:- Request to pay per class (must be approved in advance)
- Apply for one of two low-cost spots offered per year with proof of Medicaid
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This class is for anyone who wants to feel more calm, prepared, and connected going into birth. You don’t have to know anything about hypnosis—and it’s never too late to start.Sign up for the next HYPNOBIRTHING® childbirth class in the Tampa area:
Hypnosis done in the class can help one to see a “birds eye view.” It helps women gain awareness and heightened sense of focused. The result is less scattered thinking and a greater sense of purpose. Hypnosis helps lay a foundation for women to reach personal inner resources that will be involved in labor. It also aligns the mind and body. Additionally, hypnosis benefits the baby in utero as the mother learns to relax more and more throughout the course. The goal of the class is to help the mother have a more comfortable and empowered birth.
HypnoBirthing Childbirth Class FAQs
What is HypnoBirthing?
HypnoBirthing® (The Mongan Method) is a philosophy and a technique that existed thousands of years ago and resurfaced in the work of Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, an English obstetrician from the 1920s, a pioneer in the concept of natural birthing without fear and anxiety. The method teaches us how to achieve deep tension-free relaxation, fostering our natural birthing instincts for a calm and more comfortable birth. HypnoBirthing® does not lead to a trance or sleep, rather it provides an experience similar to daydreaming, or the mindful focus that you experience when engrossed in a good book or a movie.
This method allows you to be fully present and conversant, totally relaxed, and fully aware. You can be in tune with your body’s signals and your baby’s progress; able to let the surges flow through you. Experience birthing with relaxation, free from the fear that prevents our muscles from functioning as nature intended them to react. This condition allows the body’s natural endorphins and oxytocin to replace the stress hormones that can constrict muscles and cause added tension during the birthing process.
Are HypnoBirthing Classes right for me?
Birth is like a pair of jeans. It’s going to look different for every woman. Indeed, there is no right or wrong way to have a baby. Unfortunately, we can’t plan for everything that will happen in our labor but we can prepare ourselves for birth.
Are you longing for a childbirth education program that is something more than the “phases and stages” of labor?
Knowing the phases and stages is helpful and important, yet the truth is you don’t “think” your baby out. In fact, knowing your “numbers” in labor may not do much.
Babies are usually born when the mother can let go and relax. Therefore, HypnoBirthing is a class that is more than a discussion of pain management. It’s a technique that helps to cultivate how to let go. HypnoBirthing provides real-world practice so you can learn the highly effective method of deep relaxation for birth and how to assist, instead of resist, your birthing body. What is more, HypnoBirthing helps both you and your partner develop a game plan and a positive attitude for birth. With five hypnosis sessions you learn to release limiting thoughts.
Essentially, you are guided to work with your own mind and tune inward. Dads and partners often benefit greatly from the relaxation practices done in class as well. Lastly, even the baby benefits from all this relaxing.
What is one thing that makes HypnoBirthing unique from other childbirth classes?
The experiential guided hypnosis sessions are a unique component of HypnoBirthing classes. As a result, parents leave the class feeling excited to greet their baby and grounded in the knowledge of birth. The exercises in the HypnoBirthing book quickly become tangible tools that are exponentially better when practiced in class rather than read alone. Also, a key feature is the focus on connecting with your baby in hypnosis and allowing this connection to guide you during birth. This connection is THE motivation for birth! Yes, you can communicate with your baby.
When should I take HypnoBirthing childbirth classes?
HypnoBirthing can be taken at any time during pregnancy, though most couples begin in their second or early third trimester. Starting earlier gives you more time to absorb the techniques, practice relaxation, and mentally prepare for birth.
What if I’m nervous or anxious about birth?
That’s exactly what HypnoBirthing is designed for. We’ll help you:
- Release fear and tension
- Understand how your body is built for birth
- Learn simple, powerful ways to relax and trust the process
Many people who begin class feeling anxious leave feeling calmer, clearer, and more in control.
Are HypnoBirthing childbirth classes only for first-time parents?
Definitely not! While HypnoBirthing is great for first-time birthers, it is also perfect for:
- Parents planning a VBAC
- Families seeking a different experience from a previous birth
- Parents who are scheduled for a planned c-section
- Anyone wanting a more mindful and connected birth preparation
Where in Tampa do you offer the group childbirth classes?
We offer HypnoBirthing classes in the Labor of Love Birth Center in Lutz, FL
What are some of the benefits of the HypnoBirthing method?
HypnoBirthing does not guarantee a particular outcome, but it does promise that using relaxation techniques will help greatly. Some women have found that using the HypnoBirthing method has resulted in a faster and shorter labor and birth. Also, Many women have found it helped them remain calm and resulted in an easier and more peaceful experience. It sometimes results in less need for pain medication. Additionally, it has helped families feel more connected with their baby and paved the way for a positive parenting journey.
What if I’m having a hospital or medicated birth?
HypnoBirthing is ideal for all types of birth—whether you’re planning a home birth, hospital birth, natural, medicated, or even a cesarean. The techniques support calm, confidence, and emotional regulation in any setting. It’s not about avoiding interventions—it’s about having the tools to feel empowered no matter how your birth unfolds.
Why Hypnosis?
Hypnosis works with emotions and motivation. It can target the root cause of many mental blockages. It can also reduce tension in the body. Stress stored in the body can affect the labor process. Thus, working with the subconscious is a powerful and natural way to bring about a clearer mindset, positive attitude, and powerful body awareness.
Our subconscious holds our conditioning. We may have been conditioned to believe we are less than, not good enough, or bad. Our culture bombards women with messages about body image. For instance, we may grow up conditioned to believe we are not thin enough, not curved enough in the right places, not young enough or not beautiful enough. We are also conditioned to be “good girls” when we are young. As a result, this creates tension in the area of the throat where we hold all we don’t say because we want to be “nice.”
Women are considered to be “bitchy” if they speak up or are assertive. Alternatively, women can create a “wall” to make it past those criticisms. The way we view women in our culture is with a sexual schism that ends up permeating every branch of our lives — including birth. As a matter of fact, how we see ourselves as women, the role of motherhood, our bodies, sexual expression, and our connection to our baby are layers in the subconscious that impact pregnancy and birth.
Unhelpful beliefs can be like background apps open on our phone continually using up precious energy and draining our battery. So, if we can remove erroneous beliefs, we can move into more of what we want and need. With hypnosis we can heal the mind and body together, to move us in the direction we wish.
Being aware of your emotional state and your patterns of response, allows you to be a grounded observer of the situation.
Hypnosis done in class can help one to see this “birds eye view” to help gain a deeper awareness and heightened sense of focus. The result is less scattered thinking and a greater sense of purpose. This deep knowingness and strength is the place where you go to in labor. In many ways, the hypnosis is laying the foundation for you to reach the deepest personal inner resources that will be involved in labor.
In a world of consumerism and instant everything, hypnosis is a method of reaching the inner self. Knowing this place and being able to access it easily circumvents fear. Ultimately, HypnoBirthing gives birth back to women.
Hypnotherapy is a broader term for a therapy that involves hypnosis to address various issues like persistent fears or habits. Hypnobirthing on the other hand, is a specific technique focused on using hypnosis during childbirth to promote relaxation and help labor be more manageable. Hypnotherapy is a versatile tool and explores deeper issues. Hypnobirthing has specialized application in the context of childbirth. Some women benefit greatly from added hypnotherapy sessions to resolve deeper issues. This might be done in the natal period, postpartum, or even more thoroughly in early parenting.
Do I need to believe in hypnosis for it to work?
Hypnosis is a natural, focused state of awareness—similar to daydreaming or getting lost in a good book. You don’t have to “believe” in anything; just being open and practicing the techniques regularly can make a big difference.
What does my partner do in a HypnoBirthing class?
Partners are actively involved in class and in your preparation. They’ll learn:
- How to support your relaxation and comfort
- Techniques to help guide you through hypnosis
- What to expect during labor and how to advocate for you
Partners often report feeling more connected and confident in their role after class.