A women's changing body is a beautiful and natural part of life and thanks to the wonder of Mother-Nature, a woman's body is designed to know exactly what it needs to do.

When you are relaxed, your baby inside of you is content.
 
Benefits of using hypnosis for Childbirth:
 
Fewer drugs or no drugs, less risk of side effects on a mother and baby.
Release body's natural endorphins without need of medications.
Shorter labors – by average 2 hours.
A present mother, inspired relaxed.
A tranquil, peaceful birthing environment bonding family.
Breech and posterior babies can align properly using hypnosis.
Decrease in complications and interventions during labor.
Decrease intensity of Pain during childbirth

Benefits for pregnancy:

Reduce stress, anxiety.
Use for acclimation of wellness as your body changes.
Overcome insomnia.
Fall asleep faster and reduce muscle tension thus decreasing any onset of stress or pain.
Overcome morning sickness.
Overcome headaches and nervousness.
Create Bonding with your unborn.

Benefits for After Birth:

Babies more relaxed, sleep better, better nursers due to fewer drugs in their systems.
Increased mothers milk supply

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What should I expect hypnosis to feel like?
Close your eyes and open them. That’s it ! You are in control always, alert and remember everything. You may experience a feeling of floating, or some form of sensory distortion as you become more relaxed. Everyone experiences hypnosis differently. Hypnosis is a deep state of relaxation. Your  mind becomes so at ease, it naturally drifts into a pleasurable state of awareness. Your subconscious  mind adapts allowing you to accept new suggestions as it discards old thought patterns. With  Hypnosis the old, outdated expectations of birth are made new with positive suggestions for an easy, enjoyable birth.

Will I feel my labor?
A common concern for mothers using hypnosis during labor is if they become despondent to the birthing process. Mothers wonder if they become disassociated from their labor, or won’t feel contractions. This is far from truth, the mother does feel her contractions but being at ease, a mother can be more present in her body. Typically, mothers using hypnosis for natural childbirth make such remarks as” It’s like ridding a wave- that was a really good contraction- I actually felt my cervix opening” with a smile of achievement on their face.

Will My Mind Be Taken Over?
The term hypnosis is commonly confused with the archaic perception of witchcraft or mind control, where a hypnotherapist places their subject in a trance to do some awful task. This is impossible! A client must always be willing to participate to practice a learned response. All that is necessary for a client's success is the use of imagination and cooperation of the techniques. With an expected due date approaching, typically most pregnant women are happy and willing to learn tools that will create a solution to an easier labor.
 
Can I do Hypnosis on my own?
Yes. Hypnosis offers solutions for a solo or support companion while giving birth. Hypnosis
 is designed to provide every women support whether you are on your own or with a partner.

Can my partner be a participant?
Absolutely, a partner is encouraged to participate. By easily learning the tools that you have
developed, your partner becomes the perfect facilitator for you during the Hypnosis Natural
Child Birth program. Your partner can help facilitating your suggestions, reinforce your skills and
you most importantly achieve a closer bonding during the birth experience that is priceless, certainly
 a partner is encouraged to participate.

Can I use Hypnosis if I'm planning on using an epidural?
Yes, and the added benefit plus that most mothers don’t understand is that the added benefit of hypnosis is  to utilize the skills through early labor when epidurals are not generally advised. A mother receives  the benefits of Hypnosis from start to end without any wait.

Fear and Expectation
In our culture through society and repeat generations of beliefs we have been told that delivering a baby is many hours of painfully agonizing work, to be faced with fear and trepidation. Everyone has experienced stories about childbirth that send shivers up our spines, and so the legacy continues. In other parts of the world childbirth is explored at an early age of support and witnessing of ease and enjoyment during the birth process. The birthing women are given support from other women, and refreshingly children are often present to witness the birth event. This perception of birth is celebrated and honored. Young girls grow up with a belief system that birth is a positive experience, and thus it is so created. Young girls are raised with positive expectations of childbirth that reflect this attitude. The result is that their births are similar to their predecessors.Children of this taught behavior or belief deliver their children without pain and fear. Women enter labor with a positive expectation of childbirth. Our culture reflects a negative belief creating repeat generations of fear and pain experienced unnecessarily during birth.

Solution
Through hypnosis you learn how the mind controls the body, the expectant couple is taught to
surround themselves with only positive people and messages. The expectant couple creates a
peaceful  positive view of childbirth . In this tranquil state they plan, create their birthing experience
to be beautiful, peaceful,  an experience that they want.

Goal setting
Goal setting allows discussions to prevail to disclose fears about the birthing process. The expectant couple through their skills of hypnosis, work through possible solutions and then release them. Common Experience without hypnosis. Fear in labor creates tension, which creates pain, then more fear, and the cycle continues. Fear and anxiety also produce adrenaline production in the body, causing the labor to become dysfunctional, a typical common reason for Cesarean Section surgery. Adapting to the profound skills of hypnotherapy to release from fear it is possible and makes a positive difference in the birthing experience. Hypnosis for childbirth teaches a woman how to enter her own natural anesthesia whenever, and wherever she needs it.
This is the primary important goal benefit of hypnosis, a mother does not use any drugs that can be dangerous for her, and especially her baby. A mother has the control over her body, and is an active participant in her birth process. As labor progresses, a mother relaxes even more, goes deeper within herself, trusting in her body's natural ability to give birth with ease and comfort. A mothers mind is in cooperation to produce exactly what she needs.

Too good to be true?
Revolutionary movement of recognition with available tools of hypnosis has given mothers an alternative choice for childbirth. Women giving birth can be free from enduring pain. The stead force movement in the 21st century has received popular shifts in our medical case management.The Joint Commission has opened the opportunity for hypnotists to work with multidisciplinary pain management teams for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). JCAHO established guidelines for revolutionary acts of consideration of pain management and states that alternative non-pharmacological methods for pain management be used by all hospitals. Yes, women have options to participate in Natural Remedies for childbirth offering outstanding benefits to the mother-to-be and child during birth experience. With this dramatic movement to natural birth remedies realistically, there are many variables in labor and birth that can change the result, and expectant couples need to have a positive but realistic view of hypnosis for childbirth. Expectant couples must be responsible for the decision to plan natural childbirth and understand how their decision can affect the dynamics and outcome. Statistics show favorable choice of hypnosis increasing daily for childbirth. Women selecting the participation of natural remedies of hypnotic techniques are reported to be much calmer and more relaxed during labor, which automatically creates more comfort, as well as having *powerful* post-hypnotic suggestions to actually eliminate pain and fear.

How effective is Hypnosis?

Statistics vary by the educational quality program and method chosen, depending on the length of experience working with the skill, the emotional / the mental health state of the participant, the materials (reinforcement) used in each, and the skill of the Hypnotherapist or teacher, as well as the dedication and compliance to the program of each birthing couple.

  Short Brief Review, Benefits of using hypnosis for childbirth:
 ·Fewer drugs or no drugs, less risk of side effects on a mother and baby.
· Shorter labors - resistance of birthing results in pain that is reduced or eliminated.
· A present mother, inspired relaxed.
· A tranquil, peaceful birthing environment bonding family.
· Breech and posterior babies can align properly using hypnosis.
· Decrease in complications and interventions during labor.
· Babies more relaxed, sleep better, better nursers due to fewer drugs in their systems.

When should I start Hypnotherapy for Birth?

The 7th month of pregnancy. The earlier the better it is for a mother-to be to learn hypnotherapy for natural childbirth. The first area goal is to begin with empowerment for confidence and self esteem. This may require a little more work than others. Everyone differs and if a situation develops to only provide few weeks in preparations, a mother-to-can still benefit by the powerful tool of hypnosis. In fact, 2 weeks of practice are known and reported to produce successful results. Personalities, behaviors differ as well as differing on character traits, so there are no guarantees of hypnosis to adaptation to immediate results.



If your emotional state is upset your thoughts ca impact your health, insomnia, stomach-aches, headaches, nausea, etc. can all be due to stress. If you are showing any of these signs, nervousness, stress, do yourself and your baby a favor, request pregnancy stress managment. Reguest scheduleing here, you'll be glad you did.

Mehl Le. Arch Fam Med, 1994 3:881-87
Martin JA Hamilton BE, Sutton OD, et al. Births: National Center for Health Statistics.2005
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003;(2):CDoo3521


Your Next Steps
Request Appointment Call : (814) 866-2428 EST, EDT or 24/7 USA toll free (877) 690-6140 email

Schedule via telephone conference or in-person private sessions, Erie PA

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Your Instructor:
Martha Watson International Hypnotherapy Facilitator
International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association.
The National Guild of Hypnotists
The American Board of Hypnotherapy
The International Association of Counselors and Therapists

Talk to your health care provider regarding hypnotherapy for pregnancy stress management or birth.

Talk to Your Health Care Provider:

As more women are seeking the benefits of hypnotherapy throughout birth and pregnancy, more health care providers are seeking trained practitioners in their communities to refer their pregnant patients to. Discuss these options with your health care provider. If they are not yet familiar with hypnotherapy for birth and pregnancy care, ask them to find out more about its many benefits. Most importantly, seek options that support your body's natural abilities to function and find a team of providers supportive of care to being respectful to your choices.

For a referral call:(814) 866-2428 or (877) 690-6140 .CHILDBIRTH  EDUCATION 
  Click here for Childbirth classes  and  Click here for teacher training Childbirth classes.


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Mehl Le. Arch Fam Med, 1994 3:881-87
Martin JA Hamilton BE, Sutton OD, et al. Births: National Center for Health Statistics.2005
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003;(2):CDoo3521

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