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My dream is that every woman everywhere will know the joy of a truly safe comfortable and satisfying birth. - Marie Mongan
Takes the panting and pain out of labour. - Time Magazine
For a positive outlook on childbirth join a HypnoBirthing group. - Sunday Mirror

Benefits of HypnoBirthing®

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for the coffee mornings and newsletters. The newsletters are really inspiring to receive and your coffee mornings are such a wonderful way of hearing, wonderful real life birth stories. I can't wait to introduce you to our little hypnobaby and share our birth story.
- Moira in Reigate

Who can benefit?

The course is for all mums and ideally their birth companion, as having a supportive birth companion is of great value, but when not possible, mums can also attend alone, or I can recommend a doula with HypnoBirthing experience that would be able to assist you.

HypnoBirthing Babies

HypnoBirthing® Babies

  • HypnoBirthing® babies are reported to be more content, feed better, sleep better and are generally a lot calmer
  • A relaxed happy mother has high levels of endorphins that pass through to baby, as opposed to stress hormones
  • HypnoBirthing® babies generally have healthy birth weights and sleep better
  • Scientific research shows that HypnoBirthing babies usually have higher APGAR scores.
HypnoBirthing Mother

HypnoBirthing® Mothers

  • Considerably shorter labours
  • Greatly reduced incidences of postnatal depression
  • By eliminating fear and tension of childbirth, you will relax and enjoy your pregnancy and anticipate a wonderful experience
  • Gain confidence and belief in your body and the babies
  • Do not have doubt about your naturally ability to birth babies
  • Wonderfully elating starting point to begin motherhood
  • Reduces risk of needing episiotomy
HypnoBirthing Father

HypnoBirthing® Fathers

  • Gives a role for fathers to play, and not feel powerless and stressed out
  • Empowering them to actively assist in easing the birth and supporting the mother
  • The range of techniques taught enables positive support and empowerment for the father
  • The wealth of information positively anticipate the birth, fear of unknown is eliminated
  • Opportunity to bond, as fathers can sometimes feel left out and not included
  • Fathers become relaxed and also confident about the pregnancy and birth

What Fathers say...

When my partner first told me about hypnobirthing I was a little sceptical, which I think is a fairly understandable reaction for an average bloke! However, she was really keen and ordered some cds about it. I could see she was serious about it but I was worried how effective the cds alone could be so I booked us both on to a course with Inspiring Births as a present for her. From the first session it became obvious my scepticism had been misplaced because hypnobirthing is, I am happy to report, based on an unquestionable premise! The reality is that if a woman can enter labour with a relaxed, calm and positive attitude then she will have a better birth experience. The only question is, what can a woman do to keep relaxed, calm and positive? Hypnobirthing provides a toolbag of exercises which can help.

My partners labour was by no means easy, in fact a complication made it really challenging and very different from the birth we had planed. However during the experience she remained calm by using the tools she had learned from our hypnobirthing course. When she gave birth to our son I was so proud of her because I knew how thoroughly she had prepared herself to give him the best possible start. Leila from Inspiring Births was an excellent tutor as she helped us greatly to prepare ourselves for our son's birth. Leila's sessions are engaging and interesting and her passion for supporting people to have positive birth experiences is clear.

Toby
First Time Hypnobirthing-Dad
Horley

My wife, Claire, is a private Nanny; she is always surrounded by and caring for babies & children. In doing so Claire is often in contact with women who have recently given birth – unfortunately lots of the stories she hears about childbirth have filled her head with worry, lots of negative thinking. Plus, her own mother had not had straightforward experiences with her two children.

Although this was not enough to resist her biological clock, it was enough to make her very anxious and nervous about the later stages of pregnancy and childbirth. We signed up to NCT classes to try and educate ourselves about all matters pregnancy & childbirth; we did this but it did not help extinguish the negativity from Claire’s mind.

My own attitude was one of a self fulfilling prophecy – think bad it will be, think good & magical, it will be. I had used hypnotherapy in my teen for stress related Asthma and was considering this option for Claire if she failed to get her anxiety under control.

During the NCT course the use of hypnobirthing was discussed. I was pro-hypnosis having used it as a teenager to control my stress related Asthma & this centred on birthing, so I encouraged Claire to pursue it. So, Claire made contact with Leila and we signed up for 4-sessions in March 2011.

Straight away, with lots of coaching from Leila and the use of visual aids including HB videos evidencing drug free, calm, relaxed birthing, and Claire’s anxiety reduced. We got to work on positive thinking & visualisation with use of scripts we personalised; tactile use of hands to increase ‘happy hormones’ and lots of other techniques. Eventually, whenever the topic of childbirth came up in conversation at home or with other people, we scoffed at any negativity and promoted our excitement and readiness for childbirth to begin and how much we were looking forwards to it; how we couldn’t wait to hold our newborn. This did earn us a few odd looks, but we really meant it.

May 20th Claire woke up and knew this would be the day. The day could not have gone better if we had rehearsed it. Our two midwives could not believe the speed Claire’s labour progressed at and were most taken aback at her very leisurely approach. To top it off, there was no time or need for drugs. The following day when various nurses visited Claire they commented on having heard such good things about her birth the previous night.

I have no doubts in my mind whatsoever, that had we not undertaken HB with Leila, Claire would have entered childbirth in a panicked frame of mind. Instead, the whole process became just the natural step that it is towards holding our baby. Since then we have been blessed with a baby, which everyone comments on how calm and content she appears – of course we agree – we can’t necessarily put this down to HB, but it can’t be ruled out either!

Rich - First time Dad
Hospital Birth
Tadworth, Surrey
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