No, it’s not mistyping. It’s really hypnosis in the delivery room. It called Hypnobirthing, a method that teaches women how to hypnotize themselves during their labor. It helping them to relax and let their bodies take over.

The concept is not new or it rather “rebirth” of birthing philosophy that exist thousands years ago. Recaptured by Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, an English obstetrician, the method teaches you that in the absence of fear and tension, severe pain does not have to accompany labor. In this calm state, endorphins — naturally occurring chemicals in the body that can relieve pain — replace the stress hormones that contribute to pain.

Hypnobirthing includes a major focus on many techniques used in hypnotherapy to relieve fear. It integrates factual information on the childbirth process along with hypnosis. Expectant mothers will understand of how the birthing muscles work in perfect harmony–as they were designed to–when your body is sufficiently relaxed. Hypnobirthing participant will also learn how to achieve this kind of relaxation, free of the resistance that fear creates, and will learn to use your natural birthing instincts for a calm, serene and comfortable birthing.

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For Hypnobirthing pros, the process teaches women to transform pain sensation so that it feels like something else. They will be conversant and in good spirits–totally relaxed, but fully in control. They believed that the healthiest way to deliver a baby is to be very relaxed and allow the body to do it. Once labor begins, it has its own momentum and mom really doesn’t need to do much of anything.

Couples will learn the technique by taking between four and six classes, starting after the first trimester of pregnancy. Hypnotherapist will helps the woman get into a trance-like state, where expectant woman fully conscious of what her body is doing. By this way, hypnobirthing believe creates a strong bond between the couple as well as between the mother and her baby.

Debbie Wagner, a clinical hypnotherapist in Bellevue, Wash., has taught hypnobirthing to hundreds of expectant mothers since the early 1990s.”I have had great success with it,” she tells. “Many women have told me that they had a sense of control that wasn’t present [in previous births] after using hypnobirthing.”

Quote from WebMD, some experts warn that hypnotism may not be enough to help everyone endure the powerful pains of labor. Yvonne Thornton, MD, PhD, a senior perinatologist at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, says that she would counsel women to think long and hard before they decide to try hypnobirthing or any other method of drug-free delivery.

“If you really want to have a drug-free birth, you have to be committed to the program or technique because if you are not really committed, it’s a farce,” she tells WebMD. “Some people have a fairy-tale idea about the true nature of labor, but it is painful. It is one of the most painful crisises that the woman has to endure.”

For more information on hypnobirthing, call the HypnoBirthing Institute

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