Top tips for a Calm and Gentle Birth with Hypnobirthing
- Hypnobirthing is unique in my experience in the difference it makes to your birth.
- Hypnobirthing mothers frequently experience a labour that is comfortable and empowering.
- Hypnobirthing helps you to release fears and enjoy your pregnancy and the birth of your baby.
- Hypnobirthing works whenever you do the course, but the sooner you can do it the better so you have plenty of time to practice.
- Hypnobirthing is the best way I know of having a positive and joyful experience of pregnancy and birth.
- Add pregnancy yoga or pilates to Hypnobirthing and you are preparing yourself in an even better way for a gentle birth.
- You can birth successfully with Hypnobirthing in hospital, in a midwife led unit, or at home. Home is the most natural environment and, statistics show, the safest. A mother who has had a Hypnobirth at home would never give birth any other way.
- A homebirth, with an independent midwife and Hypnobirthing is, in my experience, the best recipe for a comfortable and happy experience of birth.
- Mothers come to Hypnobirthing for a comfortable birth, but please remember the difference it makes to your baby too.
- If you are confident and serene, so is your baby, as these hormones pass through the placenta to your baby as well.
- If a baby is born in a calm and serene environment, free of drugs, to a mother that is alert, drug free, and ready to receive it lovingly, this is how it forms its first relationship, which is the blueprint for every other relationship it forms in life. The implications of this throughout its life, both to the baby as it develops into an adult and to everyone it comes in contact with, cannot be over estimated.
- (Please note that I am always talking about a normal birth. Hypnobirthing can help when an unusual circumstance arises too, but do remember that genuine emergencies are rare.)
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Katharine Graves is a leading Hypnobirthing teacher. She is also qualified as a Doula, a Hypnotherapist, and a Hypnofertility practitioner, as well as in nutrition and craniosacral therapy. She has been working as a therapist for over ten years and dances with delight every time she receives a report of a positive birth experience through Hypnobirthing. She is happy to answer your questions any time, and there is lots of information on the website www.thehypnobirthingcentre.co.uk
Veena V Says:
I actually kind of did Hypnobirthing for my birth. I didn’t really get a chance to practise, as my baby was 4 weeks early and I found out about Hypnobrithing very late on into my pregnancy. I would say Hypnobirthing is really about visualisation and relaxation and this is what I tired to do throughout labour and the birth. I stayed calm and with each contraction I imagined my baby moving further and further down, it was like I was breathing him down! I used no drugs, just gas and air in about the last hour and had no stitches. Try hypnobirthing, you’ve really got nothing to lose.
