Hypnobabies

Congratulations on expecting your baby! No doubt you are busy preparing for your wonderful, easy birthing day .  As your Hypno-Doula (for those practicing either Hypnobabies or Hypnobirthing), I can assist you in the following ways:

• Helping the Birth Partner find the ways to best help you, the mother, on the birthing day
• Coordinating a Birth Rehearsal to practice deepening hypnosis and relaxation, changing your lightswitch positions, discovering what positions help you to feel the most comfortable and relaxed
• Becoming familiar with your favorite scripts and cues
• Acting as a liaison to the clinical team at the hospital (including, but not limited to, giving them the “How to Assist the Hypnofamily” handout, educating them about childbirth hypnosis, keeping negative conversation and phrases out of the birthing room)
• Help creating the “Bubble of Peace”
• Reminding you about how your beautiful uterus works!
• Providing information about childbirth and hypnosis as well as other resources
• For Hypno-birthing couples I can provide additional scripts, affirmations, as well as helping you create a “Special Word Cue” for entering hypnosis (Hypnobabies couples receive this in the study packet they receive from Hypnobabies)

For the “Hypno-curious”

Some facts about hypnosis:

* All hypnosis is self-hypnosis; the hypnotherapist is only the guide. A person chooses to enter into a hypnotic state, stay in and come out at will.

 
* Approximately 90-95% of the population can be hypnotized. Willingness, belief and motivation have great influence over hypnotizability.

* During hypnosis you are neither asleep nor unconscious, and will always “come out” whenever you wish. You are always in complete control.

 
* Stronger-minded and stronger-willed people are easier to hypnotize; not the other way around as is usually assumed.

 
* You cannot be made to divulge information or do anything against your will while in hypnosis.

*Hypnosis is not Satanic or religion-oriented at all, just a way to direct your inner mind toward the positive for great personal benefit. 

*We are all in states of hypnosis many times a day already!

Benefits of using Hypnobabies:  

● Many moms use fewer drugs or no drugs, which means less risk of side effects for you and your baby, due to elimination of the Fear/Tension/Pain Syndrome, and using post-hypnotic suggestions.

● Most Hypno-mothers have shorter labors since there is less resistance of the birthing muscles when pain and fear are minimized or eliminated.

● Hypno-Moms generally have much more energy throughout first and second stage, due to total relaxation throughout the birthing process.

● The birthing environment is much more calm and peaceful when you, the natural childbirth mother are comfortable, relaxed and confident.

● Breech and posterior babies can be turned using hypnosis.

● Blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature can be lowered and nausea, back and hip pain eliminated with hypnosis during pregnancy and labor.

● There are fewer interventions for failure to progress and therefore fewer complications during labor for our mothers and babies.

● As a Hypno-Mom, you are easily “deprogrammed” from the usual negativity of childbirth stories and scenarios you may have heard or read, by way of training in Hypnobabies classes and audio CDs which have positive messages and hypnotic suggestions. This automatically allows you to have a much more positive attitude and confidence in birthing. It is truly a gift that you are giving yourself, an amazingly easy way to enjoy your pregnancy more and actually look forward to your baby’s birth.

Find out more about childbirth hypnosis at http://hypnobabies.com/ and http://www.hypnobirthing.com/default.htm.