What is HypnoBirthing?
HypnoBirthing is an established, well designed program for mothers and families looking for a gentle and calm birthing experience. Taught within a 5 week period, each class is 2 hours long. Each HypnoBirthing class teaches the mother and her birthing companion the art and joy of experiencing childbirth in a rewarding and comfortable manner.
What you will learn:
- Various tools you need to achieve a safer, easier, and more comfortable birth
- How to embrace your birthing body using your natural birthing instincts to birth your baby
- Why labor can be painful and how it doesn't have to be
- Techniques of deep relaxation to help you eliminate the fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome
- You will learn all the stages of labor and calm breathing techniques to help you breathe through each stage with confidence.
- How to avoid artificial induction and unnecessary medical interventions
- How to prepare your birth plan
- How to create and maintain a serene, calm and joyful birthing room environment
- How to tap into nature's own natural relaxant to enhance a safe labor
- How your body is perfectly designed to conceive, nurture and birth your baby with ease and comfort
Proven Outcomes of HypnoBirthing
- Fewer cases of pre-eclampsia and dehydration
- Decreased use of pitocin and other narcotics
- Shorter first and second phase labor
- Lessoned or eliminated the need for epidurals and anesthetic injections
- Happier mothers and babies
- Babies are born alert and able to nurse almost immediately
- Fewer cases of reported postpartum depression
- Infants with higher than average APGAR scores
- Quicker recoveries from both vaginal and surgical births
Q & A’s
Is HypnoBirthing Right For Me?
Yes! Are you searching for a calm, more comfortable birth experience, one that is less invasive for you and your baby--one that will give you more confidence than other experiences that your friends and relatives may have had? HypnoBirthing supports a mother's decision to birth however she chooses. HypnoBirthing can be applied within a hospital setting, birthing center or home birth. Mothers drawn to HypnoBirthing are searching for a way that helps them give birth as calmly, safely, and gently as possible.
What Does Hypnosis Have To Do With Birth?
Hypnosis is the process of learning how to allow yourself to relax your body and go into your subconscious mind. The Subconscious mind is where fears of birth are imprinted. In HypnoBirthing® we practice hypnosis to eliminate previous horror stories of birth and replace them with positive thoughts of birthing. This creates a positive mindset and prepares you for a positive outcome. Hypnosis is a focused state of concentration, like riding a bike or painting a picture, you are fully in control, conscious and aware of your surroundings.
How Can Birth Be More Comfortable?
Hypnobirthing offers the necessary tools to release any and all fears a woman may have towards birth. When fear is present within the body the fight, flight or freeze response takes over, causing a chemical reaction that constricts muscles. When fear of birth is present in a mothers birthing body her uterus muscles constrict thus, 'the pain of childbirth' follows. When a birthing mother is relaxed and has alleviated or eliminated fear towards birth, her body will birth naturally in a more comfortable manner that allows her muscles to work together in harmony the way nature intended.
Do I Need To Plan A Natural Childbirth To Use HypnoBirthing?
Absolutely not! You can birth your baby in whichever manner is most desirable for you. HypnoBirthing is rooted in natural childbirth because most women have found when fear is removed from birth and you feel prepared and empowered the use for drugs or medical interventions is no longer necessary. You can use HypnoBirthing for any birthing style you plan on having.