Downloads for students

If you're taking a class in person with a Blissborn Educator, your hypnosis CDs and Blissborn Parent Manual are provided to you on your first day of class.  Your instructor will provide you with additional handouts, or you can download them here. 

This is also where Homestudy students will find their handouts. 

You will need a Dropbox account to access these materials.  It's easy and free to sign up! 

Interesting links for all

PANDORA

Listen to Blissborn Radio for free (if you have a subscription, there aren't any ads) any time you could use more relaxation, and if you'll have internet service at your birth place!  This peaceful music was hand-picked to set the stage for your blissful labor and birth. * Please note you cannot search Blissborn Radio on Pandora, but once you click through from this link, you'll have it in your station list. 

SPOTIFY

If you've got Spotify, you can access this playlist.  Works well with a subscription so there are no ads.  We have hand-picked this music to support bliss and quiet in your rest, your labor, and your and birth. 

Discovery Channel shows how hypnosis helps alleviate pain in the office of a dentist using hypnosis instead of anesthesia. 

Super-sensationalized 1990s program with two births.  Dr. Larry Goldman used his own form of hypnosis.  High-drama but worth watching.  First watch Part 1, then Part 2. 

Try out a few acupressure points to help in labor. This shoulder point is for starting labor. This lower back point is for comfort during labor. 

See a preview of The Business of Being Born, a documentary movie about the crisis facing pregnant women and birth in America.  This movie is largely responsible for the shift toward more natural, supported birth in the U.S. Highly recommended. 

Watch a trailer for Orgasmic Birth, a film about the physical joy that's possible during labor.  You can watch this one online. 

Watch a fantastic animation of the whole process of your baby's conception and growth, all the way through being a boogie-baby in the womb.  Set to dance music. 

Learn a variety of ways to get baby into the best position for birth, as well as how to work with a breech baby, at Spinning Babies.com. 

Checking out the hospital maternity wards, birthing centers and home birth options?  Ask these 10 Maternity Center Questions to help you choose the places and providers most likely to honor and support your wishes.  Provided by Mothering Magazine Online. 

See what the cesarean rate is in your state, as well as in your state's hospitals at Cesareanrates.com.  Is the rate going down? 

Watch this video of flowers opening, and imagine your cervix as that flower when it's time for birth.  Age-old technique, newfangled technology. 

Parenting

Baby CPR: Free online baby CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) instructions and video demonstrations with no ads.  This is one of the few sites with a quick-launch video that provides essential information immediately.  Learn the techniques and refresh your memory often.  Note: The Mayo Clinic does not recommend the new hands-only CPR for children under the age of 8 or drowning victims.  Caretakers of infants and children should know conventional CPR with rescue breathing.