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Evidence & Clinical Based
Mindful Childbirth Education
What is Child Birth Education?
We educate you and your partner on the birthing process, as well as honoring your birthing preferences and plans for the big day. We accurately relay information on the latest technology, birthing process, and scientific community. We teach Evidence based/clinical research and best practices on ways to manage discomfort or pain for the birthing process. We equip you to have a calm confident birth with less fear. Contact us today if you have any questions.
Mindful Birthing Benefits
Contemporary women in our culture hold an unprecedented fear of giving birth, to often associating it with excruciating pain, thereby causing their bodies to become unable to perform what should be a normal physiological function. HypnoBirthing® is a unique method of giving birth enhanced by meditation, deepening, visualization, relaxation and breathing techniques that allows a woman to use their natural abilities to bring about safer, easier, and more comfortable birthing. ( can also be used with an epidural).
HypnoBirthing® techniques teach woman how to release all negative thoughts about birth to free themselves of limiting thoughts and emotions that lead to pain-causing fear and resistant muscles. When giving birth with HypnoBirthing®, a mother is in a state of deep relaxation—awake, aware, and fully in control.
- Eliminates the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome before, during, and after birthing.
- Eliminates or greatly reduces the need for chemical painkillers.
- Shortens the first stage of labor by several hours.
- Eliminates fatigue during labor, leaving mother fresh, awake and with the energy for actual birthing.
- Eliminates the risk of hyperventilation from shallow breathing methods.
- Promotes special bonding of mother, baby, and birthing companion.
- More rapid postnatal recovery.
- Returns birthing to the beautiful, peaceful experience that nature intended.
- Creates a more integral role for the birthing companion !!
Have The Birth Experience You Desire
- Release Fears
- Increase your pain threshold with breathing
- Have a strong, confident voice and birth
- Breastfeeding
- Emotional Support
- Newborn Care
- Education and Comfort
- Positioning of Baby
- Preparing Body for Labor & Birth
- Reduce Stress and common pregnancy complaints
How it works
Building A Positive Expectancy
Introduction to the remarkable HypnoBirthing® philosophy
The History of Women and Birthing
Why and how you can have an easier, more comfortable, and safer birthing
How Nature perfectly designed women’s bodies to birth
How to assist, rather than resist, your natural birthing instincts
The vocabulary for calm and gentle birthing.
Visualizing gentle births by viewing beautiful birthing videos
Falling in Love with Your Baby/Preparing Mind & Body
The remarkable mind of your newborn baby—Prenatal bonding techniques
Rapid and instant self-relaxation techniques and deepening techniques
Breathing techniques for labor and birthing
Meditative relaxation and visualization
Selecting the right care provider
The Birth companion’s role in birthing
Preparing your body for birthing with
nutrition massage and toning and more.
Getting Ready to Welcome your Baby
Preparing Birth Preferences (birth plan)
Preparing the Body for Birthing
Light Touch Labor Massage
Your body working for and with you
Avoiding artificial induction and achieving a natural start to labor and birthing
Releasing negative emotions, fears and limiting thoughts.
An Overview of Birthing – A Labor of Love
Onset of Labor – Thinning and Opening Phase
Birth explained simply
Settling in at the hospital or birthing center
Preparing for home birth
As labor moves along – passing time through labor
Hallmarks of labor
If labor rests or slows
Companion’s prompts
As labor advances – birthing with your baby
Protecting the natural birthing experience
Birth rehearsal imagery
Birth, Breathing Love, Bringing Life
Moving into birthing
Positions for descent and birthing
Breathing baby down to birth
Baby moves to the breast
Family bonding with your baby
Childbirth classes.
Classes Offered &
taught by Doula Vonda
*To Reserve, please Sign Up below*
In Person Group Sessions
($475)
Full Circle Women's Care
6600 Charing St.
Jacksonville, FL
Tuesdays at 6:00 - 9:00 PM
May
5/7 - 5/28
August
8/6 - 8/27
September
9/3-9/24
October
10/8- 10/29
Revolution Chiropractic Care
14866 Old St Augustine Rd. Unit 103
Jacksonville, FL
Fridays at 6:00 PM
May
5/10 - 5/31
June
6/7 - 6/28
August
8/2 - 8/23
September
9/6 - 9/27
October
10/4 - 10/25
Spinal Solutions Chiropractic
276 Paseo Reyes Dr.
Palencia (St. Augustine, FL)
Thursdays at 6:00 PM
May
5/9 - 5/30
August
8/8 - 8/29
September
9/5 - 9/26
October
10/3 - 10/24
Alterman & Johnson Family Chiropractors
423 3rd. Street
Jacksonville Beach, FL
Fridays at 6:00 PM
June
6/7 - 6/28
August
8/2 - 8/23
September
9/6 - 9/27
October
10/4 - 10/25
Compass Chiropractic
4425 US 1 #109
St. Augustine, FL
Wednesday at 6:15 PM
August
8/7 - 8/28
October
10/2- 10/23
Align Chiropractic
1555 Kingsley Avenue Suite 406
Orange Park, FL
Mondays at 6:00 PM
June
6/3 - 6/24
September
9/9 - 9/30
October
10/7 - 10/28
Group Zoom Sessions ($450)
Thursdays
6:00 pm - 8:30
2024
Inquire for Group Zoom sessions for dates and times.
*** I also offer Private In-Home and Private one on one Zoom sessions ***
In home private sessions:
$555 (with a hired Doula)
$625 (without a hired Doula)
*Travel fee may apply*
Private Zoom sessions:
$500 (with a hired Doula)
$550 (without a hired Doula)
Refresher HypnoBirthing 3-hour session:
$350 (in home)
$325 (Zoom)
*Travel fee may apply*
We are excited to help you start the child birth journey!
Read what our satisfied clients are saying about Doula Vonda
"We loved Vonda's hypnobirthing course! By the time I was in labor I felt calm and at peace about whatever path my baby's delivery took. I also felt informed and empowered and at ease. I can't recommend this course enough!"
Angela Mann
"Doula Vonda was the best choice we made when it came to our birthing preferences. Her hypnobirthing classes were informative and I felt very prepared when it came time to give birth..."
Melissa Phillips
"After completing Vonda's Hypnobirthing classes, I feel well equipped and ready to have a calm, natural birth experience. Learning the breathing techniques and visualizations has helped me to have a calm pregnancy as well. Thank you so much!"
Jamie Lee
"My husband and I took private hypnobirthing classes with Doula Vonda in our home and it was a wonderful experience. Vonda is well informed, warm and made us feel empowered and calm about hypnobirthing and natural birth. We can’t recommend her enough."
Ashley Mead