About HypnoBirthing
HypnoBirthing (Mongan method) is a set of antenatal childbirth education classes comprising of breathing, relaxation and muscle techniques, self-hypnosis for labour, explanation of how your body, mind and baby work together in labour to avoid fear, tension and thus pain, birthing positions, different stages of labour and birth positions, how to avoid induction and episiotomies.
The course is fully designed to help you and your birth partner prepare mentally, physically and psycologically for an easier, safer and more comfortable birth – whether its your first or your sixth baby.
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Thousands
of years ago when a woman gave birth, everyone gathered around her for a
“celebration of life”. However, western culture leads us to believe
that childbirth is a painful and traumatic experience, requires medical
intervention and the use of drugs to “get you through it”. Naturally
this makes women fearful of giving birth.
With
HypnoBirthing you learn how to release those fears and anxieties, learn
how to relax sufficiently deeply to allow the birthing muscles to work
effectively, comfortably and in perfect harmony. Understand why giving
birth is a natural normal event that your body has been designed to do.
During your baby's birth you will not be in a trance or sleep state,
but will be awake, fully in control, fully involved and yet profoundly
relaxed.
HypnoBirthing is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing and stress-free birth. This amazing course teaches you and your birth partner the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner. You will learn to call upon your body's own natural relaxant and lessen, or even eliminate discomfort and the need for medication.
Your will be fascinated as you view HypnoBirths, showing labouring mothers awake, alert and in good humour 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 visualisation 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 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
- Shorterns the first phase of labour
- Leaves mother alert, fresh, awake and with energy
- Helps keep oxygen supplied to baby during birth
- Reduces the need for an episiotomy
- Reduces and often eliminates fatigue during labour
- Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm birth for themselves and their baby
- Gives the birth companion an integral role in the birth
- 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.
- Discussion around the different stages of labour and birth
- Meeting other parents-to-be
*The word hypnosis or being in an hypnotic state is often misconstrued. In essence it means being in a “dream like” state – similar to day dreaming, reading a book, being engrossed in a film. You are still fully aware of your surroundings and in total control but you are fully relaxed. Because you remain in control at all times, you cannot be made to do anything whilst in a state of hypnosis that you do not agree to.
