How Does HypnoBirthing Work to Create a Relaxed Childbirth?

The HypnoBirthing® process utilizes the power of the mind to control the body and provide a relaxed childbirth. Through a series of confidence and skill-building classes which teach a method pioneered by Marie Mongan, “the mother of HypnoBirthing®”, women learn how to enter into a state of self-hypnosis, which allows them to relax during childbirth and trust in the incredible wisdom of the body to give birth with ease and comfort.

A Birth Free From Fear Equals a Relaxed Childbirth

Women today hold an unparalleled fear of giving birth, marked by associations of unbearable pain in labor. Entering into their labor expecting great pain, they unknowingly set forth a cascade of hormones in their body that create the exact thing they fear. This is called the fear-tension-pain syndrome. HypnoBirthing® teaches a unique method of self-hypnosis and guided imagery. These techniques are enhanced by relaxing breathing techniques. When used together women tap into their natural abilities to birth in a calm, gentler, comfortable manner. When giving birth with HypnoBirthing®, a mother is not in a trance or asleep but instead in a state of deep relaxation—awake, aware, and fully in control.  Using these deep relaxation techniques, women are able to shut down the fear-tension-pain cycle and experience a relaxed childbirth. 

What Happens In a HypnoBirthing Class?

During HypnoBirthing® classes a woman learns how to release all prior programming about birth to free herself of limiting thoughts and emotions. These thoughts and emotions often lead to pain-causing fear and then tight, resistant muscles. Women learn the causes of pain during labor; but more importantly, they learn the logic behind why labor doesn’t have to hurt and what they can do to create a relaxed childbirth.

Moms and their birth companions study the physical and chemical changes that occur over a period of time when fear and anxiety are allowed to accumulate. This awareness of the fight, flight, or freeze response helps them to choose to remain calm. The skills they learn and practice as part of HypnoBirthing®  class help them see the relationship between fear and the possibility of pain and how relaxation can calm the body and the mind to produce a more relaxed  childbirth.

HypnoBirthing® works when women learn:

• Relaxation and self-hypnosis techniques to eliminate the fear and tension that cause long labor and pain
• How to replacing fear with confidence, calm and comfort to create a relaxed childbirth
• To call upon the body’s wisdom for the creation and control of its own natural anesthesia
• To replace the myth that pain must accompany normal birthing with the idea that birth should and can be a calm and peaceful process
• How the mother’s body is designed to work in neuro-muscular harmony with nature throughout labor
• How to use deep relaxation during and between uterine surges to minimize pain and discomfort
• Powerful visualizations and techniques to bring about an easier birth
• The importance of prenatal and perinatal bonding.
  And much more!