How HypnoBirthing® Works

     HypnoBirthing® is a childbirth preparation class designed to be taken around the twentieth week of the pregnancy.  This allows couples time to practice the techniques and gives their baby and themselves the gift of reduced stress for about half of their pregnancy.  The HypnoBirthing® classes cover everything an expecting couple should know for a calm, serene birthing. No other childbirth/labor classes are needed.

     HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy as it is a technique.  The HypnoBirthing® concept is not new, but rather a “rebirth” of the philosophy of birthing as it existed thousands of years ago.  This philosophy was recaptured in the work of Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, an English obstetrician, who first forwarded the concept of natural birth in the 1920s.  This method teaches you that in the absence of fear and tension, severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labor.

     Although a professional Hypnotherapist teaches this class, you will become skilled in using your own natural abilities to bring your mind and body into perfect harmony.  You will gain an understanding of the physiology of labor that goes beyond what is taught in other classes.  You will learn instant relaxation conditioning and labor techniques that will empower you to connect with and work with your body as you experience labor.  You will experience birthing in an atmosphere of calm relaxation, free from the fear and tension that prevents the muscles of your body from functioning as nature intended them to. The value of self-hypnosis comes from your learning to reach that level of mind where suggestions that you give yourself effectively influence your physiological experience.  Your HypnoBirthing® practitioner will help you learn to reach this peaceful level in which your body’s natural relaxants-endorphins replace the stress hormones that constrict and cause discomfort during birthing.