HypnoBirthing
HypnoBirthing® - The Mongan Method is a unique method of relaxed, natural childbirth education, enhanced by self-hypnosis techniques.
HypnoBirthing® provides the missing link that allows all women to use their natural instincts to bring about a safer, easier, more comfortable birthing experience.
HypnoBirthing® - The Mongan Method is as much a philosophy as it is a technique. The concept of HypnoBirthing® is not new, but rather a "rebirth" of the philosophy of birthing as it existed thousands of years. The method teaches parents that in the absence of fear and tension, severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labour.
How can it work for you?
You will gain an understanding of how the birthing muscles work in perfect harmony when your body is sufficiently relaxed and you trust birth.
You will learn how to achieve this kind of relaxation, free of the resistance that fear creates, and you will learn to use your natural birthing instincts for a calm, serene and comfortable birth.
When you have your baby with HypnoBirthing®, you will not be in a trance or a sleep. What you will experience is similar to the daydreaming or focusing that occurs when you are engrossed in a book or a movie or staring into a fire. You will be conversant and in good spirits, totally relaxed, but fully in control.
You will experience birthing in an atmosphere of calm and relaxation, free of the fear that prevents the muscles of your body from functioning as nature intended them to. In this calm state, your body's natural relaxant, endorphins, replaces the stress hormones that constrict and cause pain.
HypnoBirthing® also empowers you Birthing Partner and gives them a very important role in the birthing experience, instead of merely being a bystander. HypnoBirthing® gives both parents the confidence, tools and knowledge to experience birth as should be, calm, serene and comfortable.
HypnoBirthing® is suitable for all types of birth whether you are planning a hospital birth, elective caesarean or a water birth at home. The skills you’ll learn can be applied in all birthing environments.
What are the advantages to HypnoBirthing®?
Clinical research has shown that women who use hypnosis report:
• A shorter first stage of labour, often by several hours or more
• Elimination or significant reduction of pain, less need for drugs or chemical pain relief
• Less medical interventions
• Significantly fewer caesareans and surgical births
• Babies are more alert and content and subsequently sleep better and feed better
• Reduction in post-natal depression
What will you learn?
• That pain does NOT need to be an accompaniment to labour
• To control your body’s own natural relaxant, the only safe labour enhancement
• To breathe effectively (and it's not the panting that most people think they have to do)
• To birth your baby without the need for forced violent pushing
• To work together with your Birthing Partner, your body and your baby to achieve the birth that you and baby deserve