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Hypnosis can be used to eliminate pain and fear from the birthing experience. As with hypnotherapy for pain relief or medical conditions, the mind can be trained to feel a different way about pain, reducing the pain sensations.

Mentioning labour and delivery to an expectant mother in her last trimester can lead to her heart racing, with her mind filled with concern and panic. It can be a very fearful event.

The more relaxation the mother experiences in labour, the more comfort she will have. The depth of relaxation necessary can easily be achieved with hypnosis, as physical relaxation is learned and practiced daily in preparation for birth using guided visualizations followed by positive hypnotic suggestions. When the critical conscious mind is by-passed with hypnosis, the inner mind can literally be reprogrammed to believe that birth will be comfortable, easy and joyful. Software for your mind!

The benefits of birth with hypnosis include;

  • A safer, easier more comfortable birth using guided imagery, self hypnosis and special breathing techniques
  • A calmer, more relaxed baby
  • The opportunity for couples to learn the techniques together in enjoyable classes
  • Shortening the first stage of labour by several hours
  • The elimination or a greatly reduced need for painkillers
  • A more integral role for the birthing companion

You and your baby deserve special attention as you go through this wonderful time feeling calm and confident.

Hypno-birthing techniques can be learned either in a class or as a couple. The classes are a fun, relaxed and enjoyable way to provide you with support and confidence up to and beyond the birth of your baby.

Whether you choose the class or individual option, you will learn;

  • Relaxation and self-hypnosis techniques to remove the fear and tension which causes long labour and pain, replacing these emotions with calmness and confidence.
  • Methods to produce a shorter, more comfortable birth.
  • How the mother's body is designed to work in harmony with nature throughout labour.
  • To create your body's own natural relaxant, the only safe labour enhancement.
  • The importance of pre-natal and peri-natal bonding.
  • Gentle birthing techniques that allow you to breathe your baby into the world.

In our experience of working with mums-to-be and alongside medical professions we recommend the following individuals and services;

  • Before the Stork
    "Before the Stork" is an ultrasound scanning company that offers parents a chance to meet their unborn child for the first time without the distractions and time restrictions of a busy antenatal clinic. Ultrasound scans are believed to enable families to form an early affectionate bond to their unborn child and provide a reassuring image of the unborn child in the mother's womb.

  • Take a Peek
    St Helens first baby 3D and 4D scanning centre. Take a Peek is ideally located for Wigan, Leigh, Widnes, Ormskirk, Manchester and Liverpool. Scans from £65. They provide a relaxing experience away from the hospital where parents can relax and bond with baby in a calm friendly environment.

  • Liverpool Independent Midwives
    Will work with you and your family as a partner in care to ensure that you have enough information to make informed choices surrounding your pregnancy, labour/ birth and thereafter. They believe that care should not be just centred around your physical well-being, but also your emotional and spiritual well-being and therefore care will be adapted to embrace all of these areas.

  • Birth Choices
    Birth Choices aim is to provide you with access to up-to-date research-based unbiased information about your pregnancy & birth so you can make the right choices specific to your family. They want to arm you with straight-forward information whilst remaining impartial, because they think it's important that you retain control over the decision making.

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