HypnoBirthing® - The Mongan Method

Affiliated with the HypnoBirthing® Institute USA

www.hypnobirthing.com

Would you like to experience a natural, gentle

and comfortable birth feeling relaxed and confident?

HypnoBirthing can help you achieve your goal.

What is Hypnobirthing®?

HypnoBirthing® is a complete childbirth education programme, that teaches simple but specific self hypnosis, relaxation, visualizations and breathing techniques to you and your birth companion for a natural, gentle, comfortable and joyful birth. 

The concept of HypnoBirthing® is not new, but rather a "rebirth" of the philosophy of birthing as it existed thousands of years ago and as it was recaptured in the work of Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, an English obstetrician, who, in the 1920s, was one of the first to forward the concept of natural birthing.  

Watch some HypnoBirthing Births of mothers who have prepared themselves with and used HypnoBirthing: http://www.youtube.com/user/HypnoBirthingVideos

Find out more about HypnoBirthing in the media: http://www.hypnobirthing.com/hb_news.htm

What is Hypnosis and how will I feel during labour and birth?

You will not be in a trance or a sleep but what you will in a state similar to daydreaming, or focusing, that occurs when you are engrossed in a book or a movie or staring into a fire. This is the state of hypnosis. It is a state of deep relaxation and increased focused mental concentration. All hypnosis is self hypnosis.

During your labour and birth, you will be in a state of calm relaxation, but still conversant, if you wish too, and in good spirits.. You will be awake throughout, aware of everything that is happening - your body's surges and your baby's progress but totally relaxed and fully in control. 

What are the HypnoBirthing® Advantages?  

•Teaches deep levels of relaxation to eliminate the fear that causes tension

and, thus, pain

•Greatly reduces and often eliminates the need for chemical painkillers and drugs

•Shortens the first phase of labour

•Leaves you alert, fresh, awake and with energy

•Helps keep oxygen supplied to baby during birthing

•Reduces the need for an episiotomy

•Reduces and often eliminates fatigue during labour

•Empowers you with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm birth for yourself and their baby

•Gives the birthing companion an integral role in the birthing – he/she is not just an helpless onlooker but knows how to help you.

•Embraces the concept of pre-birth parenting

•Teaches breathing techniques that allow you to gently breathe her baby into the world without the violence of hard, physical pushing.

•Babies born using HypnoBirthing® tend to be calmer, feed better, sleep better and experience less birth trauma.

What will you learn?

HypnoBirthing® teaches you to release all prior programming about birth and helps you to free yourself of fearful emotions that lead to pain and unyielding muscles.

You learn to trust that your body innately knows how to bring your baby into the world in a calm and gentle way. In this calm state, your body's natural relaxant, the endorphins, replace the stress hormones that constrict and cause pain.

It includes:

How the mind and emotions affect the body

Why labour hurts and why it doesn’t have to

Releasing fear and limiting beliefs

Preparing your mind and body for birthing

Natural ways of inducing labour

Relaxation and deepening techniques

Breathing techniques to work in harmony with your body

Understanding the stages of labour

Preparing your birth plan

Tapping nature’s own relaxant

Breathing your baby down for birth

And much more

Where can HypnoBirthing® be used?

HypnoBirthing® can be used wherever you choose to give birth, may it be in a hospital, birth centre or at home.

When is a good time to start?

You can start anytime during your pregnancy. The more time you have to practice, the better it is. But even if you are very advanced into your pregnancy, HypnoBirthing® can still help you.

How are the classes taught?

HypnoBirthing is taught in a small group or private setting to you and the birth companion of your choice in a set of 5 x 2 1/2 hr classes or 4 x 3 hr classes. The birth companion is the person who will be with you during birth. If you are already close to your due date, we can arrange the dates accordingly.

The course fee includes the book, CD, handouts and follow up contact afterwards.

HypnoBirthing® lets you rediscover and experience the joy and magic of birth!

For more information, a free 20 min. introductory session, dates and times about the classes or to book, please go to contact me.