Why is HypnoBirthing® so good?
HypnoBirthing® is designed as a structured but informal class that teaches not only the physical aspects of birth, as in most antenatal classes, but also the emotional and spiritual aspects of birth. You will learn why your body does what it does, as well as how.
HypnoBirthing® teaches you:
- Breathing techniques that help the birth
- How to massively reduce the need for any medication.
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How to reduce your risk of an episiotomy using a simple massage technique. - How to be confident and informed when dealing with medical staff. How to know which question to ask when and to recognise when it is time for them to take charge.
- How to release any fears you may have about childbirth, no matter how they originated.
- How to bring on the onset of labour with simple natural techniques if you go beyond your “estimated due date”.
- Most importantly, how to stay relaxed, calm and in control no matter what is happening around you.
We can’t promise you a perfect birth – no-one can - but we can promise you a much more comfortable and relaxed birth than you would otherwise have had. Through HypnoBirthing® you’ll learn how to confidently approach a safe, easier and more natural birth.
Additional benefits:
- Considerably shorter labour and birthing
- Significantly fewer surgical births
- High number of comfortable, natural births with no technological assistance.
- A high rate of success in helping breech presentation babies to turn to the appropriate birthing position using hypnosis and posture. (In a study at the University of Vermont involving 100 women who were between 37 and 40 weeks gestation an 81% success rate using hypnosis was recorded)
- Highly energised mums who are in good spirits following a calm and gentle birth.
- You can use the techniques you learn again and again, no matter how many children you have.
- HypnoBirthing® techniques work well wherever you choose to give birth, home births, hospital births, water births, birthing centres…… the choice of where to give birth is yours.
- You can use the techniques to relieve stress and calm and relax you in other situations even after the birth.
Benefits for Baby
Babies born as a result of HypnoBirthing tend to be calmer, feed better, sleep better and experience less trauma during birth as they are gently breathed into the world at their own pace.
Scientific research has shown that HypnoBirthing® babies also have a higher Apgar score (a measure of how well the baby is doing immediately after birth and then five minutes later).
Benefits for Fathers
At last – the dad can play an active role too!
Instead of being a helpless onlooker your husband or partner is a central part of the birth process, helping you to stay calm and to maintain your focus with the techniques that you have been taught.
As a result fathers feel proud of being able to help and be an active part of the birth.
This, in turn, increases their bond with you and the baby.
