What is HypnoBirthing?

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What is HypnoBirthing?

HypnoBirthing is a birthing method and philosophy that helps women and their birthing companions learn the normal physiological labor and birth process. Through the use of self hypnosis, relaxation, visualization, guided imagery, affirmations and repetative practice, expectant mothers and their birthing companions learn how to release their fears about birthing and parenting. Through this practice, confidence in the partnership between body, mind and baby are built, and labor and birth are often satisfying experiences that mothers and their birth companions want to remember.

HypnoBirthing can be utilized for any way and any place that birth occurs. HypnoBirthing boasts shorter labors, less pain during labor and birth, and lower intervention rates.

According to HypnoBirthing Outcomes, United States, 2007:

In 2007 15.5% of US HypnoBirthing^® mothers birthed via C-Section, compared to the national average of 32%

12% of HypnoBirthing^® mothers chose to birth in the comfort of their homes. The national average is less than 1%.

6% of HypnoBirthing^® mothers chose to birth in freestanding birth centers. The national average is less than 1%.

Over 70% of HypnoBirthing^® mothers birthing vaginally had unmedicated births.

Source: HypnoBirthing Outcomes, United States, 2007
http://www.hypnobirthing.com/US_Outcomes_Summary_2007.pdf

There are many advantages of HypnoBirthing, including:

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

Shortens the first phase of labor

Leaves mother alert, fresh, awake and with energy

Helps keep oxygen supplied to baby during birthing

Reduces the need for an episiotomy

Reduces and often eliminates fatigue during labor

Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm birth for themselves and their baby

Gives the birthing companion an integral role in the birthing

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.

Birthing More Beautifully with HypnoBirthing