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Hypnotherapy for birth or Hypnobirthing is a term that is increasingly appearing in the news and spoken of by health professionals as the ‘new way’ to give birth; it is natural and often pain free.  But what is this system and is it really a good as good as it is hailed to be? The phrase was first coined by Marie Mongan in Amercia.  She had her first baby in hospital and after reading the book ‘Childbirth Without Fear’ by Grantly Dick-Read she announced to the nurses that she was planning on having a natural birth.  With a superior smirk the nurse maintained she would soon be ‘screaming like the rest of them’. Unfortunately Marie got caught up in the hospital protocols of the day and ended up having a high intervention birth when in fact her pregnancy had been proceeding in a perfectly natural way.  With her second child a similar process happened, but by her third child Marie was wise to the current obstetrical practises and insisted she be left to give birth in the natural way with her husband present certainly not the done thing in those times!.  Her third child was born in a calm and natural delivery with no drugs and no pain. When Marie’s own daughter became pregnant she taught the techniques she had used and she gave birth calmly and with no pain and without the use of drugs.  Her friends of the similar age were also having babies and wanted to know the secret of this hypnotherapy for birth and so started the spread of hypnobirth revolution. So what is it that has caused the increasing interest in this field, and what is the problem that mothers are looking to solve by turning to hypnotherapy births? Often we are also pre-conditioned to see birth as a painful experience.  Just think of every televised birth you ever saw, and think of what the word ‘labour’ conjures up in your imagination.  So Mothers often approach the process of ‘labour’ in a state of near terror, not made any easier by the scare stories they have heard.  They then become tense, their muscles tighten up and the end result is they feel pain during their childbirth.  Often as a result of the pain they will need medical intervention which will start the cycle of medical intervention throughout the birth. Hypnotherapy for birth turns this whole cycle of events on its head.  Using the techniques taught you are able to be very relaxed, especially those all important muscles and experience the birth in a more positive frame of mind and body.   The end result is the whole process becomes an enjoyable experience and many women report that they experience no pain at all. Using these techniques childbirth can easily become one of the most enjoyable experiences you have in your life.  Hypnotherapy for birth is the key to helping this come about – and I for one hope that if you are a woman, and if you are pregnant, or if you know one, you will at least consider this as an option which may enhance your own experience of childbirth, and give a better start in life to your baby. Hypnotherapy for birth or Hypnobirthing is a term that is increasingly appearing in the news and spoken of by health professionals as the ‘new way’ to give birth; it is natural and often pain free.  But what is this system and is it really a good as good as it is hailed to be? The phrase was first coined by Marie Mongan in Amercia.  She had her first baby in hospital and after reading the book ‘Childbirth Without Fear’ by Grantly Dick-Read she announced to the nurses that she was planning on having a natural birth.  With a superior smirk the nurse maintained she would soon be ‘screaming like the rest of them’. Unfortunately Marie got caught up in the hospital protocols of the day and ended up having a high intervention birth when in fact her pregnancy had been proceeding in a perfectly natural way.  With her second child a similar process happened, but by her third child Marie was wise to the current obstetrical practises and insisted she be left to give birth in the natural way with her husband present certainly not the done thing in those times!.  Her third child was born in a calm and natural delivery with no drugs and no pain. When Marie’s own daughter became pregnant she taught the techniques she had used and she gave birth calmly and with no pain and without the use of drugs.  Her friends of the similar age were also having babies and wanted to know the secret of this hypnotherapy for birth and so started the spread of hypnobirth revolution. So what is it that has caused the increasing interest in this field, and what is the problem that mothers are looking to solve by turning to hypnotherapy births? Often we are also pre-conditioned to see birth as a painful experience.  Just think of every televised birth you ever saw, and think of what the word ‘labour’ conjures up in your imagination.  So Mothers often approach the process of ‘labour’ in a state of near terror, not made any easier by the scare stories they have heard.  They then become tense, their muscles tighten up and the end result is they feel pain during their childbirth.  Often as a result of the pain they will need medical intervention which will start the cycle of medical intervention throughout the birth. Hypnotherapy for birth turns this whole cycle of events on its head.  Using the techniques taught you are able to be very relaxed, especially those all important muscles and experience the birth in a more positive frame of mind and body.   The end result is the whole process becomes an enjoyable experience and many women report that they experience no pain at all. Using these techniques childbirth can easily become one of the most enjoyable experiences you have in your life.  Hypnotherapy for birth is the key to helping this come about – and I for one hope that if you are a woman, and if you are pregnant, or if you know one, you will at least consider this as an option which may enhance your own experience of childbirth, and give a better start in life to your baby.

Hypnotherapy for birth or Hypnobirthing is a term that is increasingly appearing in the news and spoken of by health professionals as the ‘new way’ to give birth; it is natural and often pain free.  But what is this system and is it really a good as good as it is hailed to be?

The phrase was first coined by Marie Mongan in Amercia.  She had her first baby in hospital and after reading the book ‘Childbirth Without Fear’ by Grantly Dick-Read she announced to the nurses that she was planning on having a natural birth.  With a superior smirk the nurse maintained she would soon be ‘screaming like the rest of them’.

Unfortunately Marie got caught up in the hospital protocols of the day and ended up having a high intervention birth when in fact her pregnancy had been proceeding in a perfectly natural way.  With her second child a similar process happened, but by her third child Marie was wise to the current obstetrical practises and insisted she be left to give birth in the natural way with her husband present certainly not the done thing in those times!.  Her third child was born in a calm and natural delivery with no drugs and no pain.

When Marie’s own daughter became pregnant she taught the techniques she had used and she gave birth calmly and with no pain and without the use of drugs.  Her friends of the similar age were also having babies and wanted to know the secret of this hypnotherapy for birth and so started the spread of hypnobirth revolution.

So what is it that has caused the increasing interest in this field, and what is the problem that mothers are looking to solve by turning to hypnotherapy births?

Often we are also pre-conditioned to see birth as a painful experience.  Just think of every televised birth you ever saw, and think of what the word ‘labour’ conjures up in your imagination.  So Mothers often approach the process of ‘labour’ in a state of near terror, not made any easier by the scare stories they have heard.  They then become tense, their muscles tighten up and the end result is they feel pain during their childbirth.  Often as a result of the pain they will need medical intervention which will start the cycle of medical intervention throughout the birth.

Hypnotherapy for birth turns this whole cycle of events on its head.  Using the techniques taught you are able to be very relaxed, especially those all important muscles and experience the birth in a more positive frame of mind and body.   The end result is the whole process becomes an enjoyable experience and many women report that they experience no pain at all.

Using these techniques childbirth can easily become one of the most enjoyable experiences you have in your life.  Hypnotherapy for birth is the key to helping this come about – and I for one hope that if you are a woman, and if you are pregnant, or if you know one, you will at least consider this as an option which may enhance your own experience of childbirth, and give a better start in life to your baby.



By: Anna Barrington

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Before women are pregnant, many will consider taking the soft option and have a caesarean section.  When they become pregnant and their hormones do somersaults.  They read some more about caesarean and realize that maybe they aren’t the easy option they’d thought, either for themselves or their babies, and it dawns on them that this could be a painful experience.

The other thing that happens when you’re pregnant is that people immediately feel entitled to express an opinion and give you advice.  You are inundated with horror stories about other people’s experiences in labour; and somewhere along the line somebody mentions Childbirth Hypnotherapy or Hypnobirthing and how you can have a natural pain free birth.  So you go home and google it… This is how it all began.

At the beginning of the last century there was a young obstetrician, Grantly Dick-Reed working at the London Hospital in Whitechapel.  This was the area of the docks, which was the poorest slum area of London, at a time when only wealthy people who could afford to pay could go to hospital.

One night, Dick-Reed was called out to attend a home delivery; It was in such a poor dwelling that there was water dripping through the roof and no money for a bed or blankets.  When he got there, he offered the woman chloroform for pain relief, but she waved him away.  Much to his credit he stood back and watched as she gave birth naturally and easily with no drugs and no pain. He asked her why she had refused pain relief, as this was completely outside his experience, and she simply said to him:  “It didn’t hurt”.  It wasn’t meant to, was it, Doctor? This simply statement stuck in his head like a mantra.

Back at the hospital that evening, he was met by a nurse who said:  “It’s been a very boring evening, but it looks as if there’s a woman down the corridor who’ll need help soon, and he was really struck by the contrast between the beautiful, natural delivery he had just attended, and the fact that in the hospital it was considered boring unless there was an intervention.

Dick-Reed had seen many women having painful births which contrasted so strongly with the natural delivery he had just attended, and he puzzled why it should be so.  Eventually he came up with the theory that the root of the problem was fear.  Because of fear, the muscles tense up, and the natural process of birth is inhibited, so it becomes less efficient, longer and, therefore painful.

At the end of his career he wrote a seminal book on natural birth, ‘Childbirth Without Fear’, and the principals he propounded still hold good today.  The research into how the hormones work in pregnancy was not done until after he had finished his career but, in due course, his theory was fully vindicated.

Since Dick-Reed’s time, the principles have been developed further, most notably by Hypnobirthing, the leading method of childbirth education today, which will no doubt be developed further over the years ahead.

Before women are pregnant, many will consider taking the soft option and have a caesarean section.  When they become pregnant and their hormones do somersaults.  They read some more about caesarean and realize that maybe they aren’t the easy option they’d thought, either for themselves or their babies, and it dawns on them that this could be a painful experience.

The other thing that happens when you’re pregnant is that people immediately feel entitled to express an opinion and give you advice.  You are inundated with horror stories about other people’s experiences in labour; and somewhere along the line somebody mentions Childbirth Hypnotherapy or Hypnobirthing and how you can have a natural pain free birth.  So you go home and google it… This is how it all began.

At the beginning of the last century there was a young obstetrician, Grantly Dick-Reed working at the London Hospital in Whitechapel.  This was the area of the docks, which was the poorest slum area of London, at a time when only wealthy people who could afford to pay could go to hospital.

One night, Dick-Reed was called out to attend a home delivery; It was in such a poor dwelling that there was water dripping through the roof and no money for a bed or blankets.  When he got there, he offered the woman chloroform for pain relief, but she waved him away.  Much to his credit he stood back and watched as she gave birth naturally and easily with no drugs and no pain. He asked her why she had refused pain relief, as this was completely outside his experience, and she simply said to him:  “It didn’t hurt”.  It wasn’t meant to, was it, Doctor? This simply statement stuck in his head like a mantra.

Back at the hospital that evening, he was met by a nurse who said:  “It’s been a very boring evening, but it looks as if there’s a woman down the corridor who’ll need help soon, and he was really struck by the contrast between the beautiful, natural delivery he had just attended, and the fact that in the hospital it was considered boring unless there was an intervention.

Dick-Reed had seen many women having painful births which contrasted so strongly with the natural delivery he had just attended, and he puzzled why it should be so.  Eventually he came up with the theory that the root of the problem was fear.  Because of fear, the muscles tense up, and the natural process of birth is inhibited, so it becomes less efficient, longer and, therefore painful.

At the end of his career he wrote a seminal book on natural birth, ‘Childbirth Without Fear’, and the principals he propounded still hold good today.  The research into how the hormones work in pregnancy was not done until after he had finished his career but, in due course, his theory was fully vindicated.

Since Dick-Reed’s time, the principles have been developed further, most notably by Hypnobirthing, the leading method of childbirth education today, which will no doubt be developed further over the years ahead.



By: A Barrington

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The fame of birthing hypnotherapy, the Mongan method, is spreading fast by word of mouth, simply because it works so well, and that’s how it has always spread. When Marie Mongan had her first baby, she had read the book ‘Childbirth Without Fear’ by Grantly Dick-Reed and practiced the techniques it taught. She had her first baby in hospital as was the generally accepted practice in America, then as now, and when she arrived she announced to the nurse that she was planning to have a natural birth. With a superior smirk the nurse maintained that she would ‘soon be screaming like the rest of them’ and left her alone in a room with a clock so that she could ‘time her pains’. Husbands certainly were not allowed. Marie used the techniques she had practiced and eventually felt the need to push, so she rang the bell for the nurse who came and announced that she couldn’t possibly want to push yet. Grudgingly she examined her, and saw the baby’s head beginning to emerge. At this point it was the nurse who panicked, told Marie to cross her legs and pant, bundled her onto a trolley, and rushed her down the corridor to the delivery room where she was transferred to a hard surgical couch, legs put in stirrups, and wrists strapped to the couch. A chloroform mask was placed on her face, and the next thing she knew was that she came round and there was a baby lying in a cradle beside her with forceps marks on his head. She had simply been caught up in the hospital protocols of the day. She was a mixture of furious, disappointed and upset, and then exactly the same thing happened when her second baby arrived. By the time she was pregnant for the third time she was wise to the ways of current obstetrical practice and insisted that her obstetrician give orders that she be allowed to birth in the natural way that she had planned. With the knowledge that she has gained since she would probably have opted for a home birth. The obstetrician agreed, and then she dropped the bombshell that she wanted to have her husband there too. In those days this was completely unknown, but she stuck to her guns and eventually obtained permission. When she went into labour, she found people coming and looking round the door of her room to see this strange phenomenon of a woman who planned to give birth naturally, and that was exactly what she did. Her daughter was born in a calm and natural delivery with no drugs and no pain. When that daughter grew up and became pregnant, Marie taught her what she had done for her own birth and, in addition, the hypnotherapy birth techniques that she had subsequently learned, and it worked again. Her daughter gave birth calmly and naturally with no drugs and no pain. Of course all her friends were of an age to be having babies, and they wanted to know about these wonderful and effective techniques too, so Marie taught them. And so it spread, and spread, and spread by word of mouth, simply because women wanted it because it worked. That was sixteen years ago in America, and it spread throughout America and Canada, and then, about six years ago Marie came to England and taught, and the effect was exactly the same. It spread by word of mouth because it works and women want it. And that’s how it still spreads, which is the best way of all, and the hypnosis for birth is causing a positive revolution in the practice of childbirth in this country, and in the expectations and experience of pregnant women.

The fame of birthing hypnotherapy, the Mongan method, is spreading fast by word of mouth, simply because it works so well, and that’s how it has always spread.

When Marie Mongan had her first baby, she had read the book ‘Childbirth Without Fear’ by Grantly Dick-Reed and practiced the techniques it taught. She had her first baby in hospital as was the generally accepted practice in America, then as now, and when she arrived she announced to the nurse that she was planning to have a natural birth. With a superior smirk the nurse maintained that she would ‘soon be screaming like the rest of them’ and left her alone in a room with a clock so that she could ‘time her pains’. Husbands certainly were not allowed.

Marie used the techniques she had practiced and eventually felt the need to push, so she rang the bell for the nurse who came and announced that she couldn’t possibly want to push yet. Grudgingly she examined her, and saw the baby’s head beginning to emerge. At this point it was the nurse who panicked, told Marie to cross her legs and pant, bundled her onto a trolley, and rushed her down the corridor to the delivery room where she was transferred to a hard surgical couch, legs put in stirrups, and wrists strapped to the couch. A chloroform mask was placed on her face, and the next thing she knew was that she came round and there was a baby lying in a cradle beside her with forceps marks on his head. She had simply been caught up in the hospital protocols of the day.

She was a mixture of furious, disappointed and upset, and then exactly the same thing happened when her second baby arrived.

By the time she was pregnant for the third time she was wise to the ways of current obstetrical practice and insisted that her obstetrician give orders that she be allowed to birth in the natural way that she had planned. With the knowledge that she has gained since she would probably have opted for a home birth. The obstetrician agreed, and then she dropped the bombshell that she wanted to have her husband there too. In those days this was completely unknown, but she stuck to her guns and eventually obtained permission.

When she went into labour, she found people coming and looking round the door of her room to see this strange phenomenon of a woman who planned to give birth naturally, and that was exactly what she did. Her daughter was born in a calm and natural delivery with no drugs and no pain.

When that daughter grew up and became pregnant, Marie taught her what she had done for her own birth and, in addition, the hypnotherapy birth techniques that she had subsequently learned, and it worked again. Her daughter gave birth calmly and naturally with no drugs and no pain. Of course all her friends were of an age to be having babies, and they wanted to know about these wonderful and effective techniques too, so Marie taught them. And so it spread, and spread, and spread by word of mouth, simply because women wanted it because it worked.

That was sixteen years ago in America, and it spread throughout America and Canada, and then, about six years ago Marie came to England and taught, and the effect was exactly the same. It spread by word of mouth because it works and women want it. And that’s how it still spreads, which is the best way of all, and the hypnosis for birth is causing a positive revolution in the practice of childbirth in this country, and in the expectations and experience of pregnant women.



By: Anna Barrington

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