“ When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.” Marie Mongan, Founder of HypnoBirthing ®
The answer to the initial questions is actually rather simple: Fear. For most of their lives, women have been inundated with the negative stories of other women’ s birth experiences. Everyone, from their mothers, sis- ters, aunts, cousins, friends, and even strangers, wants to tell them the horrors of giving birth. They have been conditioned to believe that excruciating pain is associated with the delivery. And because of this, women today hold an unprecedented fear of giving birth. Where there is fear, there is tension, where there is tension, there is contraction, and with it come limited perception and limited physiological functions.
This extreme fear not only causes women‘ s bodies to become tense with the approaching birthing date – and that tension prohibits their bodies from easily performing what should be a normal natural birthing procedure, resulting in exactly the feared long, painful „ labour“ or unnecessary intervention – but also, even before conception, in a lack of confidence in their body‘ inherent capacities to birth. Most women who give birth by the vaginal route rely on pharmaceutical drugs and technologised treatments in the clinical labour rooms, because they fear they cannot manage birth by themselves.
The HypnoBirthing ® program is built around an educational process that includes special breathing, relaxation, visualization, meditative practice, clearing of subconscious limiting beliefs, attention to nutrition and positive body toning. Expectant women learn to dismiss fear-based stories, misinformation and birthing myths. And they are helped to see birth as normal. They learn to trust that their bodies know how to bring their babies into the world in the calm and gentle way that nature intended.
„ Wow, this is what I was looking for. Deep within I always knew natural birthing methods must exist. Now I feel truly empowered. Even ready to birth alone in a forest, if necessary.“
First time expectant mother after HypnoBirthing ® course.