Hypnobirthing - A Celebration of Life

Would you like your birth to be relaxed, more comfortable, safe, more satisfying? Would you like your baby to be born gently and calmly into this world? more peacefully?
 
If this appeals to you why not look at HypnoBirthing®?

Hypnobirthing® is taught worldwide and has been in existence for over 18 years. A complete birth education programme it teaches the basics of how natural birthing unfolds. At the heart of the teaching is the principle that a relaxed birth is a rewarding birth. Simple but specific self hypnosis, relaxation, relaxation and breathing exercises are taught. Hypnobirthing® does not mean that you will be in a trance or asleep. Rather you will be able to chat and be in good spirits-totally relaxed but fully in control. You will always be aware of what is happening during your birthing.

For more information, please see:

• www.hypnobirthing.co.uk
• www.hypnobirthing.com

What are the benefits? Research has shown that Hypnobirthing® can help to:

• create a calm easier, peaceful birth experience
• shortens the first stage of Labour#
• eliminate or reduce the need for conventional pain relief methods
• reduce the likelihood of surgical birth
• allieviate fatigue during labour, leaving you more energy for the actual birth
• provide a supportive role for your birthing partner
• promote bonding of mother, baby and birthing partner
• encourge more rapid postnatal recovery

#source
"hypnosis for pain relief in labour and childbirth: a systematic review" Cyna, McAuliffe and Andrew" British Journal of Anaesthesia 93(4)2004

For more information, birthing stories, testimonials and scientific research, please log on to www.hypnobirthing.co.uk and www.hypnobirthing.com

Classes now forming. 4 sessions by 3 hrs in early 2010 in Emo and Naas. Individual one to one available

You will learn:

- Everything you need to know to achieve safe, easier and more comfortable birth
-To explode the myth that pain is a necessary accompaniment to labour
-Whats wrong with labour as it exists with most other childbirth methods
-Techniques of deep relaxation to help you eliminate the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome
-How your body is naturally designed to conceive, nuture and birth your baby with ease and comfort
-To create your body's own natural relaxant, the only safe labour enhancement
-Natural ways to bring your body into labour without artifical chemical induction
-How you and your birthing companion can create a birthing environment that is calm, serene and joyful, rather than tense and stressful
-Gentle birthing techniques that allow you to breathe your baby into the world without the violence of hard physical pushing
-To use your natural birthing instincts to birth your baby in a way that most mirrors the way that nature intended

You will be fasinated as you view HypnoBirthing® films, 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.

"My dream is that every woman, everywhere, will know the joy of a safe, satisfying birth for both her baby and herself-one she'll not need to forgot"
Marie F. Mongan 1999 Founder

What the parents are saying:

"My birth experience was better than I could ever have imagined. I remained full of energy-no tears or stitches."
Margo, 1 st baby
 
"When I went into labour, I carried on as normal, went visiting, even had a manicure! Using HypnoBirthing® I relaxed completely and let go of my fear, and went on to enjoy a relaxed birthing experience."
Alison, 1st baby
 
"The HypnoBirthing® techniques helped my wife's body deliver so easily that the midwives were amazed. Thank you for all your help, something we will never forget when we look at our son."
Dave (HypnoBirthing® Dad) , 1st baby
 
"I am so glad I found HypnoBirthing® or I would never have another child. When I first went in to labour using HypnoBirthing® I was totally calm and looking forward to having our baby. The birth was just like my visualisation, except I didn't have time to get into the pool before our little girl was born! It's such a shame that people think they have to have an ordeal to have a baby, when it can be so different, so beautiful."
Bonnie, 2nd baby
 
What medical professionals are saying...
 
"..very inspiring...this will change my midwifery practice..."
(Midwife, Yorkshire)
 
"This course will enable women to regain their power and enable then to nurture their children as nature intended bringing peaceful babies who know they are loved, into the world. This whole course just makes complete sense at an intellectual and intuitive level"
(Midwife, London)
 
"What impressed me most was the philosophy of a quiet, peaceful, respectful birthing..."
(Obstetrician, Turkey)