What is HypnoBirthing®?
HypnoBirthing® is a tried and proven technique, as well as a philosophy that guides and
prepares a woman in giving birth in a peaceful and extraordinarily beautiful manner. It is a program that considers the psychological, as well as the physical, well-being of the mother, her birth partner, and the newborn, independent of context, whether that be in the quiet of a home, a hospital, or a birth center.
The HypnoBirthing® program is built around an educational process that includes special breathing, relaxation, visualization, meditative practice, attention to nutrition, and positive body toning. Most importantly it fosters an air of mutual respect for the birthing family, as well as the healthcare provider in a traditional healthcare system or an alternative setting.
We know you have many choices and many decisions to make for your birthing experience. You have choices in selecting your care provider; you have choices in selecting the environment in which you will bring your baby into the world. Another important choice is that of the childbirth education classes you will choose to prepare for the birth of your baby. We know you will be happy with your choice of HypnoBirthing®, a premium childbirth education program.
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 horrors about giving birth. They have been conditioned to believe that excruciating pain is associated with labor; 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 prohibits their bodies from easily performing a normal physiological function. The result is exactly what they feared most–long, painful birthing or unnecessary intervention.
People who are drawn to HypnoBirthing® have long been searching for a way to give birth confidently and as calmly, safely, and gently as possible,
whether they have chosen to birth in a hospital, a birthing center, or at home. Since the medicalization of birth, this kind of birthing (HypnoBirthing®) almost seemed unattainable for the general population.
Through a very simple program of self-hypnosis and education, healthy, low-risk women, as well as women who need medical assistance because of special circumstances, learn to dismiss fear-based stories, misinformation, and birthing myths; 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: the way that nature intended.
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​PHILOSOPHY & PREMISE SET OUT BY MARIE MONGAN (FOUNDER)
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HypnoBirthing is as much a philosophy of birthing as it is a method or technique for achieving a safer, easier, and more comfortable birth. HypnoBirthing Educators do not claim to offer, or even suggest, that studying HypnoBirthing will
provide a pain-free or painless birthing.
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The HypnoBirthing philosophy is based on the belief that a healthy person carrying a healthy baby and having a healthy pregnancy, who i s properly prepared, is able to have a positive and gentle birthing. Aside from just allowing natural birthing instincts to play out, as they have proven themselves so capable of doing for centuries, HypnoBirthing® is the most beautiful and most effective birthing philosophy for calm and gentle birth that exists today. For that reason, the principles cannot be forced to fit into other more traditional programs, nor can other methods be effectively forced to
fit into the HypnoBirthing® classroom.
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The premise of HypnoBirthing is blatantly basic: in the absence of special circumstances, a birthing person is perfectly created to conceive, to nurture the development of their baby, and to birth their baby safely and normally. A birthing person and their baby should be treated according to the status of their own health, not what could, or has, possibly happened to others. In the absence of special circumstances, each intervention is an assault on the birth experience. Birth has its own time frame. It may rest, or it may accelerate. It needs no manipulation. Babies will be born in their own time.
This well-thought-out program includes education in special breathing techniques, massage techniques, self-hypnosis, relaxation, affirmations, visualization, and bonding--all designed to assist the birthing person to become empowered and confident, as they trust the innate wisdom of their body to know how to birth their baby intuitively.
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