Hypnosis helps childbirth

Calm birthing One Mother At A Time.

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Benefits of using Hypnosis!

1. Fewer drugs or no drugs at all means less side effects to mother and baby.

2. Resistance of the birthing muscles as a response to pain is minimized or eliminated allowing for shorter labors.

3. Relaxation throughout the birthing process results in an awake , energized mother.

4.The birthing environment is more calm and peaceful.

5. Breech and posterior babies can be turned using hypnosis.

6. There can be fewer interventions and complications during labor.

7. Babies may be better sleepers and nurses due to fewer drugs in their systems.

Looking for a noninvasive birthing tool? Consider hypnosis to decrease anxiety and pain during childbirth. Learn from a Certified hypnotherapist how this increasingly accepted practice can help minimize or eliminate pain during natural childbirth.

For some women, childbirth is a very fearful event, but it needn't be. As a natural childbirth and hypnosis instructor, I've seen how hypnosis can help moms-to-be let go of their fear and minimize or eliminate pain. In my experience, when women employ these techniques during labor and delivery, childbirth merely becomes a enjoyable event as it was meant to be..

In the recent past, hypnosis conjured up images of stage hypnotists mesmerizing people into embarrassing situations. But now hypnosis is commonly used for therapeutic purposes in many areas of medicine, dentistry, and personal therapy sessions.

The Facts

All hypnosis is self-hypnosis; the hypnotherapist is only the guide. A person chooses to enter into a hypnotic state, stay in, and come out at will.
Approximately 90 to 95 percent of the population can be hypnotized. Willingness, belief, and motivation have great influence over "hypnotizable."
During hypnosis you are neither asleep nor unconscious and will always come out when you wish.
Stronger-minded and stronger-willed people are easier to hypnotize—not the other way around, as is usually assumed.
You cannot be made to divulge information or do anything against your will while in hypnosis.
Hypnosis is not satanic or religion-oriented; it is just a way to redirect your thoughts.

How Hypnosis Helps Childbirth

Hypnosis is used in medical and dental practices with great success by patients with life-threatening allergies to anesthetics, allowing them to undergo surgeries with no drugs or pain. As hypnotherapists, we can help train the mind to experience discomfort as only pressure, and we can achieve the same result with childbirth hypnosis. In fact, you can learn deep physical relaxation and practice it daily in preparation for your birth using guided visualizations followed by positive hypnotic suggestions. If your critical conscious mind can be bypassed with hypnosis, your inner mind can literally be reprogrammed to believe that birth will be comfortable, easy, and joyous.

Seek out a qualified hypnotherapist for office sessions.
Interview hypnotherapists before working with one and ask what type of program they have for childbirth using hypnosis, as not all of them already have an effective program in their practice. HypnoBirthing the Mongan method was the first. A good program will include at least four sessions in the office or a private class in your home, with the last session one to three weeks before the estimated due date. It should also include at least one tape or CD to listen to at home by yourself, and one or more cues for the birth companion to practice that help you relax and go deeper into hypnosis. This helps tremendously with women who have personal issues that need to be resolved, such as VBAC moms, those who have had a past negative birth experience, or those who have specific fears about childbirth. Always ask it they are Certified HypnoBirthing & or Hypnotherapist.

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Hypnotherapy

Bhavani Shankar Kodali MD, Associate Professor

Karl Frindrich MD, Clinical Fellow

Hypnobirthing was introduced in the 19th century utilizing techniques for fear release and relaxation. "Women attempt to relieve all anxiety and reach a loose, limp, rag doll relaxed state....then the body can do what it was designed to do during birth, without constriction and resulting discomfort

Technique- hypnobirthing classes often meet once a week for 2 hours a class beginning at the 30th week of pregnancy over a 4-5 week period. The hypnotherapist usually does not accompany the mother in the birth. This method attempts to modify the perception of pain through self hypnosis and post hypnotic suggestion. An example is the imagining of being in a safe place often symbolizing the pain as something that can be separated from conscious recognition thereby attempting to recognize less pain. Some goals of hypnotherapy include:

Reduced need for pain medications.
Birthing is returned to a peaceful celebration of life.
Less fatigue from labor.
Brings together mother, baby, and birthing companion.
Less hyperventilation than Lamaze methods.

This method attempts to make the birthing process less scientific through the replacement of conventional birthing terminology with less scientific descriptive's.

Examples

Birthing coach is called birthing companion.
Catching the baby is called receiving the baby.
Uterine contraction is referred to as uterine surge.

Limitations-

Hypnotherapy has no recognized risk factors to the mother or the unborn fetus. Some of the recognized disadvantages include:

One randomized trial has shown the mean duration of labor to be shorter in the hypnosis group. Which may mean they need to go to the hospital sooner.
Decreased popularity by many obstetricians because of the increased time required for adequate hypnosis preparation compared to standard medical pain relief methods. (Drug Induced)

The above information regarding bathing was obtained from the following publications.

If you would like more information on hypnotherapy we suggest reading the suggested papers, referral to www.Hypnobirthing.com and finally discussing this option with your obstetrician.

Murray Enkin, A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, 3rd Ed., Oxford University Press, 2000

Eappen S, Robbins D., Nonpharmacological means of pain relief for labor and delivery, Int Anesthesiol Clini. 2002 Fall; 40(4): 103-14, Review

Macaulay A, Randomised trial of self hypnosis for analgesia in labour, Br Med J; 292:657, 1986