Leila Gardiner
HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator
Post Graduate Diploma - Medical Ultrasound
BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography
Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Diploma...feeling calm, breathing easily and slowly, your mind at ease, your body relaxed, empowered, happy and joyful breathing your baby into the world. Confident, and in control. When your birthing is complete, you will think, I was actively part of an unforgettable and inspiring experience. Whatever birth you choose, HypnoBirthing® is the unique antenatal education program that can assist you in achieving your goal.
HypnoBirthing® is a childbirth method that focuses on preparing parents for gentle birth. HypnoBirthing® promotes a calm, peaceful, and natural pregnancy, birth, and bonding experience for families.
Unlike other childbirth methods that teach you how to cope with and manage pain, HypnoBirthing® is based on the premise that childbirth does not necessarily need to be painful, if the mother is well prepared and relaxed. When one understands that constrictor hormones, created by fear, cause pain they learn, instead, to release fear thus creating endorphins—the feel good hormones. Dr Grantly Dick Read, the pioneer of natural childbirth, discovered this. More comfortable birthing is simply and easily achieved with HypnoBirthing®. Rather than exhausting, shallow breathing and the distraction techniques of typical “prepared childbirth” programs, HypnoBirthing® parents learn deep abdominal breathing and total relaxation, enabling the laboring mother to work in harmony with her body and her baby, just as nature intended. This allows her to achieve a shorter and more comfortable labor for herself and baby.
Statistically 70% of HypnoBirthing® mothers require no pain relief. As long as an expectant mother is having a normal birth, confidence and free from fear, birth need not be painful. HypnoBirthing® mothers are fully aware and totally engaged in the experience. In HypnoBirthing® we build confidence in the body's natural ability to birth gently and easily. See yourselves confident and empowered ultimately achieving a more satisfying birth where only necessary drugs and intervention are used.
Medical assistance and intervention do have a place and are sometimes necessary. HypnoBirthing® helps eliminate unnecessary intervention and puts the power in the hands of the expectant mother and father, as they trust in the body's natural ability to birth gently and easily, and free of fear.
When medical interventions are necessary e.g. the caesarean, it can be a life saving wonder that saves mother and baby’s lives. When birthing mothers require a caesarean section, many HypnoBirthing® techniques are useful in helping mothers and birth companion, keep mothers calm and relaxed. HypnoBirthing®, the Mongan method, is a comprehensive antenatal course that will empower you to achieve the birth journey, and outcome that you desire.
Hypnosis is a natural state of inner focused awareness.
The application of hypnosis in
birth can alter ones experience of expected pain, to a comfortable, easy and
empowering experience.
An expectant mother will as a
result look forward to what can be an amazingly relaxed and elating experience.
Fear releases adrenaline that
slows, and can ultimately halt the progress of birth.
Through HypnoBirthing®, fear can be totally eliminated.
The course will promote your body to
function at its optimal level with high levels of endorphins that inhibit the
production of adrenaline and stress hormones.