Gentle Birth Support - HypnoBirthing

HypnoBirthing� - The Mongan Method 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.

You will gain an understanding of how the birthing muscles work in
perfect harmony--as they were designed to--when your body is
sufficiently relaxed and you trust birth. You will learn how to achieve
this kind of relaxation, free of the resistance that fear creates, and you
will learn to use your natural birthing instincts for a calm, serene and
comfortable birth.

When you have your baby with HypnoBirthing�, you will not be in a
trance or a sleep. What you will experience is similar to the
daydreaming, or focusing, that occurs when you are engrossed in a
book or a movie or staring into a fire.

You will be conversant and in good spirits--totally relaxed, but fully in
control. Awake throughout, you will be aware of your body's surges and
your baby's progress; but because you will have trained yourself to
reach complete relaxation, you will be able to determine the degree
andthe manner in which you will feel the surges. You will experience
birthing in an atmosphere of calm relaxation, free of the fear that
prevents the muscles of your body from functioning as nature intended
them to. In this calm state, your body's natural relaxant, endorphins,
replaces the stress hormones that constrict and cause pain.

Trained HypnoBirthing� educators are successfully teaching women
and their birthing companions to trust birth and release all fear and
limiting thoughts. HypnoBirthing� practitioners can be found in 27
countries throughout the world.