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® Practitioner Certification Program

Today, more than ever before, people are attracted to the HypnoBirthing Practitioner Certification Program because of the satisfaction that teaching this program and working with young families is bringing into their lives. An even greater attraction for practitioners is seeing the impact that the HypnoBirthing philosophy of calm and gentle birthing is having on a large majority of low-risk women who are coming to realize that birth is about them and their babies.

What this program teaches:

• Awareness of the consciousness of the baby before, during, and after birth
• Understanding of the working of the body’s own natural relaxants.
• Relaxation techniques that eliminate the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome
• Understanding of why women in other cultures have easier birthings
• Proven hypnotic techniques to bring about easier, more comfortable labor and birthing
• How the mother’s body is designed to work in neuromuscular harmony with nature

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