HypnoBirthing® Classes
About HypnoBirthing®
HypnoBirthing® is a rewarding, relaxing, stress-free method of birthing that is based on the belief that babies should come into the world in an atmosphere of peace, calm and joy. When a mother is properly prepared for the birthing process physically, mentally and spiritually, she not only experiences that sort of joy but birthing her baby is easier, more comfortable and often pain-free.
HypnoBirthing 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 ago and as it was recaptured in the work of Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, an English obstetrician, who, in the 1920s, was one of the first to forward the concept of natural birthing. The method teaches you that, in the absence of fear and tension, or special medical circumstances, severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labor.
Unlike other childbirth methods that teach you how to cope with and manage pain, HypnoBirthing is based on the premise that childbirth does not necessarily need to be painful if the mother is properly prepared and relaxed. When women understand that pain is caused by constrictor hormones, created by fear, they learn, instead, to release fear thus creating endorphins – the feel good hormones. They are then able to change their expectations of long, painful labor and are able to replace them with expectations of a more comfortable birthing. Rather than exhausting, shallow breathing and the distraction techniques of typical “prepared childbirth” programs, HypnoBirthing parents learn deep abdominal breathing and total relaxation, enabling the laboring mother to work in harmony with her body and her baby. This allows her to achieve a shorter and more comfortable labor for herself and baby.
HypnoBirthing® Classes for Pregnant Women
HypnoBirthing® – the Mongon Method is a well-thought-out program of deep relaxation, self-hypnosis, visualization and guided imagery which eliminates the fear-tension-pain syndrome. It reduces and often removes the need for chemical anesthesia, episiotomy and other interventions. HypnoBirthing® babies are usually better adjusted and happier, resulting in better eating and sleeping routines. It also eliminates postnatal discomfort and ‘Baby Blues’.
A 5-session program once a week for 5 weeks, which mothers have to attend with their birthing companion, prepares parents for gentle birth and easy adjustment to parenthood. HypnoBirthing® encourages a calm, peaceful, and natural pregnancy, birth, and bonding experience for families.
HypnoBirthing® Resources
Certified HypnoBirthing® Pracitioner Pooja
When Pooja learned about the existence of HypnoBirthing and the possibility of becoming a practitioner herself, she dedicated herself to making it happen in Dubai. It was through her efforts that The Third Eye was able to run the Practitioner Training program which certified Pooja as a HypnoBirthing® practitioner.
As a senior hypnotherapist who has successfully healed and resolved many challenging cases through hypnotherapy, Pooja applies her knowledge and skills to working with expectant mothers in HypnoBirthing, being a mother of a beautiful girl herself. Through her hypnotherapy sessions, Pooja discovered how impactful long-forgotten birth traumas retrieved under hypnotherapy were actually on adults who came to her for therapeutic sessions, that working with mothers right from birth seemed so important and became something she feels very passionately about.
HypnoBirthing® Testimonials
Aaron’s Birth Story
Aaron was due on April 11th 2007, so on 31st March when I felt some sensations I just put it down to the big lunch I had eaten with my family! I decided to lie on my bed and listen to my Hypnotherapy CD, Id been listening to it since 24 weeks and ‘fell asleep’ (or thought I’d fallen asleep) every time! As I started to relax and forget about the sensations my waters broke! I stayed at home for another hour or so and then we decided to drive to the hospital. On the way I told Brian that they would probably send us home as I didn’t think I was that far along. When we got there they told me I was 7cms and that the baby would probably come in the next few hours. It was 6pm on March 31st so I really wanted him to be born before midnight!!
The midwife was great, she just left us to it really and when she was in the room she was very quiet and really seemed to understand and respect my birth plan and the hypno birthing. She put the gas and air next to the bed just in case and didn’t push any other drugs. The sensations were totally manageable and I listened to the hypno CD on my ipod and did the visualisations and relaxations. Brian was there to hold my hand, pass the water!
When I reached 9cms things slowed down, I remember watching the clock, 9pm, 10pm, 11pm!! Brian was a great gatekeeper, he made sure that I was left to stay ‘within’, I had my eyes closed the whole time and wasn’t really aware of who was in the room. In my head I was sat on a beach we had been to on holiday! Brian told me afterwards that they discussed interventions, but could see that I was OK and that Aaron heart beat was fine. At 3am they did step in and gave me a drug to bring on one last big contraction. Aaron was born at 3.15am on April 1st!!! He was a very happy, health 7lb 2oz and scored 10/10 on his ABTAR test.
When I think about Aaron’s birth I feel so empowered. I trusted in my body’s natural ability to birth my baby, I had a brilliant gatekeeper and ‘voice’ in Brian, the medical staff saw how relaxed I was and were very supportive and my baby boy was born into a very calm, relaxed and positive environment. I’m normally such a wimp, I cant even handle having my legs waxed! The hypnobirthing helped me relax through the pregnancy and for the birth it took me to a place I didn’t know was there, I really tapped into my inner self, my strength and the whole experience left me with a huge sense of pride and wellbeing. – C.B., Mother
Sophie’s Birth
Sophie was born in Qatar, a place where birth can be very medicalised and the C-Section rate is very high. Her birth could have been medicalised from the first contact with doctors if I’d had let it. Here’s what happened.
I was working in the hospital the day she was born, delivering communication skills training to the hospital staff! I felt some familiar sensations through the training and guessed it was the start of labour. I decided to try and see a doctor just to check but really wanted to go home until I was further on and not get stuck in the hospital system too early. In my check up the doctor told me I was 5cms dilated and wanted to send me to the delivery room to be induced! I knew that there was no need for induction and requested to just stay in my room for a while. The doctor refused, however when the person in charge of the labour ward saw me walk in she agreed. She was lovely and found it funny that they’d insisted on induction!
So, safe in my room I started to relax and do some visualisations through contractions. I imagined that I was stood at the foot of a huge wave, I watched the wave grow bigger and stronger and when the contraction died down I felt the cool spray on my face. Brian arrived and through contractions we chatted. The staff checked in on us every 20 minutes or so. On one check they were talking to us and I had a contraction, I closed my eyes and started to visualise my wave! Brian said they didn’t know what I was doing and commented it was a very strange reaction to a contraction!
At 7pm it was time to go to the delivery suite. When we got there they were very keen to medicalise things again and this is where Brian’s role really came into play. He was my gatekeeper and my voice. He made sure that everyone had read my birth plan and understood what we wanted. The doctor on duty was great, she agreed to keep things as calm and quiet as possible and agreed to only intervene if there was a medical issue.
Sophie was born at 7.20pm into a calm, relaxed and positive environment. The staff told me that they hadn’t seen anyone give birth like that and that I must have an unusually high threshold for pain! I obviously knew otherwise but it felt so god to hear and again I felt so completely empowered, strong and ready for anything. – C.B., Mother
