HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Education
Learn Relaxation Techniques to Eliminate Fear, Tension, and Pain.
Achieve birth fulfillment--awake and alert—in a totally relaxed state
of mind and body
The HypnoBirthing® Premise
For most of their lives, women have been inundated with the negative
stories of other women’s birth experiences. Everyone, from their
mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, friends, and even strangers, wants to
tell them the horrors of giving birth. They have been conditioned to
believe that excruciating pain is associated with birth; and because of
this, women today hold an unprecedented fear of giving birth. This
extreme fear causes their bodies to become tense, and that tension
often prevents them from easily performing the normal, physiological
function of birth. The result?—exactly what they feared most--long,
painful, disappointing birthings.
People who are drawn to HypnoBirthing have long been searching for a
way that helps women give birth as calmly, safely, and gently as
possible. Until HypnoBirthing® was founded, it seemed almost
unattainable.
Through a very simple program of self-hypnosis and education, women
learn to release emotions tied to fear-based stories and
misinformation, and they are helped to see birth as normal. They learn
to trust that their bodies know how to bring their babies into the world
in the calm and gentle way that Nature intended.
About HypnoBirthing®
HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for
achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing.
This amazing program teaches you, along with your birthing companion,
the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner.
You will learn how to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant and
thus lessen, or even eliminate, discomfort and the need for medication.
When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and
body are in harmony, Nature is free to function in the same well-
designed manner that it does with all animal mothers in Nature.
You will be fascinated as you view HypnoBirthing® films, showing
laboring mothers, awake, alert and in good humor as they experience
the kind of gentle birth that you, too, can know when you are free of
the fear that causes pain and tension. Through self-hypnosis, special
breathing, and visualization, HypnoBirthing® teaches you to release all
prior programming about birth, how to trust your body and work with
it, as well as how to free yourself of harmful emotions that lead to pain-
causing fear and unyielding muscles.
HypnoBirthing® will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing
instincts. With HypnoBirthing®, you will not be in a trance or a sleep
state. You will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.
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 labor
- Leaves mother 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 labor
- Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm birth for themselves and their baby
- Gives the birthing companion an integral role in the birthing
- Embraces the concept of pre-birth parenting
- Teaches breathing techniques that allow a woman to gently breathe her baby into the world without the violence of hard, physical pushing.
For more information about HypnoBirthing, please visit the HypnoBirthing Institute's website at http://www.hypnobirthing.com