Congratulations on your pregnancy! Being pregnant and thinking about how you want to birth your baby is truly exciting. We all want whats best for both baby and ourselves. We want to remember a beautiful birthing experience where we are fully awake and have enough energy to welcome our little sweetheart with loving arms! We want a serene, calm birthing (and your baby does too). All this is achievable with the HypnoBirthing® Childbirth program. It's both a philosophy and a technique moms learn; to enjoy a safe, relaxing birthing experience!
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Because as women, through stories from close loved ones told since we were just little girls, many women come to believe that birthing is painful and something to be endured. Not so! And more incredibly many HypnoBirthing® moms have labors as short as 3 hours! Most HypnoBirthing® Moms explain the pressure sensation they experienced but never pain! You'll be amazed at how in tune you'll become to your baby and your own body after completing this wonderful program created by Marie Mongan.
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Remember, your baby in your womb is experiencing everything you are right now. Your thoughts, emotions, stresses and fears... all that baby can sense. By choosing to work with HypnoBirthing®, you'll be able to release any negativity and instill a mental state of positive expectation and knowing for your birthing day and you'll learn how to communicate with your baby everyday! You'll truly know your baby and understand that pain is not a natural part of the process.
You will not be asleep during the birth, nor will you be off somewhere relaxing your mind on the beach... you'll be comfortably right there with your baby, experiencing the spiritual journey of birthing in the peaceful way nature intended.
So what exactly IS HypnoBirthing® anyway? HypnoBirthing® incorporates self hypnosis, several hypnosis sessions with your instructor, birthing education, breathing techniques and visualizations (all of which you will become an expert in) to experience the one of the most beautiful sacred journeys of a life : that of welcoming your baby into your family.
I know that you want to find the best program for birthing your baby naturally. I truly believe that HypnoBirthing® offers just that!
HypnoBirthing® classes now in Metuchen, NJ! Please feel free to take your time reading all this site has to offer. If you'd like to enroll in a program, set up your first private class or discuss HypnoBirthing® more with Mellisa, your instructor, please email her here.
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Times Magazine article on HypnoBirthing.
Mellisa's article published in MESSAGE Magazine, Paris France summer 2005
HypnoBirthing®:
Letting go of Fear & Giving Birth with Ease
By: Mellisa Dormoy CHT, CNMI
Even as a clinical hypnotherapist I was fascinated when I first heard the word HypnoBirthing. I know the power of Hypnosis for pain relief, but my first concern was that a mom would be so far relaxed that she’d miss out on the birth of her child. Actually this is a common misconception and I fell right into the trap.
HypnoBirthing® teaches a mom to use self-hypnosis, but not to go away on some distant secluded island all by herself. Developed officially in 1989, HypnoBirthing® does not cover up the pain by distracting a mom away from it, but teaches that pain need not even be in our vocabulary when it comes to birthing our children. What?! Read on…
Marie Mongan (aka Mickey), the founder of HypnoBirthing® teaches that childbirth is a natural function of a women’s body. When muscles are not tense and in a “Fight or Flight” response, a normal, natural, comfortable birth can take place. Logically, this makes sense. Think about when you go for a long bike ride for the first time in 10 years or you do continual heavy lifting for hours and hours. You’re not necessarily sore or crying in pain at the time… it usually takes effect the next day! So what is wrong with our wonderful bodies that the uterus is the ONLY part of us made incorrectly?
When a mom is relaxed and calm, the baby has no restraints. Baby can slide down the birth path with complete ease; your body was designed for this. Your body and your baby already know what to do instinctively. Aside from that, a calm relaxed mom produces endorphins (feel good hormones and natural pain killers). Your body then does not produce catecholamines. Catecholamines are called the “constrictor hormones”. These hormones are produced only in the presence of fear or stress. They cause the muscles of the body to tense up, including the uterine muscles. In this ‘flight or fight’ response, your body then rushes blood & oxygen to all extremities (and therefore away from your uterus) to get you moving! But you’re not trying to run away, you’re trying to birth your child… so this whole scenario is not helpful at all. This is why you will learn how to deeply relax with HypnoBirthing methods during a class (or you can use the book and CD which will also help you receive benefits of HypnoBirthing). In the HypnoBirthing program, you will learn how to instantly let yourself go into a deep state of relaxation, where you can choose to ignore what you want. You will learn how to invoke this state anytime.
There are some Hypnosis for Birth programs that do teach you to go far, far away or to mask pain. HypnoBirthing® is not one of them. HypnoBirthing® will teach you to go deep within your body and to go with your baby through the birthing experience, in love, in calmness. HypnoBirthing® endeavours to bring birthing back to what it was originally meant to be.
A healthy woman carrying a healthy baby has every reason to believe that the birthing of her child will be a wonderful peaceful event! If you want to read incredible stories about actual births, please see www.Hypnobirthing.com under “birthing stories” and “photos and stories”. You’ll be amazed to see how ‘awake and there’ these women truly are! One HypnoBirthing practitioner, Aryn Whitewolf talks about a recent mom’s birth, she says : “….Two weeks ago one of my Mom's (clients) had her 2nd HB baby at home. Her first was achieved in under 4 hours, and this one only took an hour and a half. I spoke with her again on Friday and she is still high on the joy of the birth. She experienced no pain at all and barely had time to call her Midwife before the baby arrived. As the baby crowned she was filled with overwhelming joy and laughed out loud. We even have a photo of this moment. The baby weighed in at 9lb. 6oz. and is as mellow as can be.” This type of story is not novel in HypnoBirthing circles, it’s really the norm.
We have to realize that from the time we are little girls we hear all these stories about how “hard and difficult labour is (especially the first), but it’s SO worth it in the end”, they say. When we are pregnant it’s like we have a huge bumper sticker on our foreheads “Tell me your worst birth story to frighten the bijebbers out of me!” Well, the first thing you will learn in a HypnoBirthing® Class is to NOT listen to unhappy birth stories. Listening can only create fear.. Fear causes tension, and tension creates pain. With HypnoBirthing® you will be creating your own magnificent birthing experience yourself, with your baby.
Even if you are dead set on getting an epidural, don’t think HypnoBirthing® is not for you. Although HypnoBirthing® is a natural childbirth technique and philosophy; it can do a lot for helping you to relax and to pave the road for a very comfortable, wonderful birth.
If you have previously experienced a C-section or a particularly difficult birth, there’s NO reason that will or should reproduce itself! HypnoBirthing® practitioners work a lot with fear releasing in the program and you can work with it at home as well to alleviate any fears that this birth will be similar. 
In additional to learning the basic course content listed below, HypnoBirthing® moms use birth affirmations and a relaxation CD throughout their pregnancy. That’s why it’s best to get into a class as soon as you can. However, a mother can take the course at any time during pregnancy and still have a wonderful, peaceful Hypnobirth! Most practitioners offer both intensive weekends and the normal 5 classes which are 2.5 hours long. Your course tuition includes the Cd and book for the class.
In HypnoBirthing® classes, you will be taught:
- to release any fears surrounding pregnancy and birth
- to bond with your preborn baby
- visualization techniques to use during the birthing
- different positions to use during your thinning and opening stage and during the birthing
- how to relax your body completely at will
- how history and religion have affected birthing
- how to keep to a birth plan (and when and why not to)
- learn how your uterus works and how it’s made perfectly for birthing
- different breaths to use during birthing
- toning exercises for muscles used in birth
- how to induce labour naturally
- Light Touch Massage
- and lots more.
Postpartum depression is virtually unknown with HypnoBirthing Families. That’s because HypnoBirthing babies have really become a part of the families life well before the actual birth. The frequency of inductions, epidurals, C-sections and forceps are drastically reduced with HypnoBirthing as well. Babies are received by their mothers, fully awake, ready to bond and feed quickly!
HypnoBirthing: A Celebration of Life
Safe, easier, more comfortable birthing in the way that most mirrors nature
Read HypnoBirthing Testimonials here
Research on Hypnosis for pregnancy:
Hypnosis to facilitate uncomplicated birthing
Effects of Hypnosis on the Labor Processes and Birth Outcomes of Pregnant Adolescents
Hypnosis and breech conversion in late pregnancy
Body-centered hypnosis for pregnancy and childbirth
Other interesting Links:
The US regularly circumcizes newborn baby boys. Find out more about it here.
Hypnobirthing in the news:
Time Magazine : Birth Bliss
Austin Texas news coverage: Hypnobirthing puts mind over pain (with video)
Nursing Spectrum Magazine : HypnoBirthing: The Gentler Way
WTAE 4: Pittsburg News: Labor Without Pain, Drugs (with video)
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