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The HypnoBirthing® Premise
For most of their lives, women have been inundated with the negative
stories of other women’s birth experiences. Everyone, from their
mothers, sisters, 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 birth; and because of
this, women today hold an unprecedented fear of giving birth. This
extreme fear causes their bodies to become tense, and that tension
often prevents them from easily performing the normal, physiological
function of birth. The result?—exactly what they feared most--long,
painful, disappointing birthings.
People who are drawn to HypnoBirthing have long been searching for a
way that helps women give birth as calmly, safely, and gently as
possible. Until HypnoBirthing® was founded, it seemed almost
unattainable.
Through a very simple program of self-hypnosis and education, women
learn to release emotions tied to fear-based stories and
misinformation, 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.
About HypnoBirthing®
HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for
achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing.
This amazing program teaches you, along with your birthing companion,
the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner.
You will learn how to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant and
thus lessen, or even eliminate, discomfort and the need for medication.
When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and
body are in harmony, Nature is free to function in the same well-
designed manner that it does with all animal mothers in Nature.
You will be fascinated as you view HypnoBirthing® films, showing
laboring mothers, awake, alert and in good humor as they experience
the kind of gentle birth that you, too, can know when you are free of
the fear that causes pain and tension. Through self-hypnosis, special
breathing, and visualization, HypnoBirthing® teaches you to release all
prior programming about birth, how to trust your body and work with
it, as well as how to free yourself of harmful emotions that lead to pain-
causing fear and unyielding muscles.
HypnoBirthing® will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing
instincts. With HypnoBirthing®, you will not be in a trance or a sleep
state. You will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.
HypnoBirthing® Advantages
Teaches deep levels of relaxation to eliminate the fear that
causes tension
and, thus, pain
Greatly reduces and often eliminates the need for chemical
painkillers and drugs
Shortens the first phase of labor
Leaves mother alert, fresh, awake and with energy
Helps keep oxygen supplied to baby during birthing
Reduces the need for an episiotomy
Reduces and often eliminates fatigue during labor
Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm
birth for themselves and their baby
Gives the birthing companion an integral role in the birthing
Embraces the concept of pre-birth parenting
Teaches breathing techniques that allow a woman to gently
breathe her baby into the world without the violence of hard, physical
pushing.
Founder
Marie “Mickey” Mongan, founder of HypnoBirthing®, is an award-
winning therapist with over 30 years’ experience in counseling and
teaching on the college level and in the private sector. She holds
several awards in hypnotherapy, including the National Guild of
Hypnotists President’s Award and the coveted Charles Tebbetts
Award. In 2005, she became the first woman ever to receive the Guild’
s highest honor, the Rexford L. North Award.
Early in her career, she was named one of five outstanding educational
leaders in New Hampshire. And, in 1992, she taught in Moscow as a
diplomat for the Bridges for Peace Foundation.
She is the mother of four adult children, born in the mid-‘50s and early
‘60s, using the theories on which HypnoBirthing is based.
Her widely acclaimed book, HypnoBirthing® The Mongan Method, is the
textbook used in HypnoBirthing® classes.
For information about HypnoBirthing® classes, click the Classes button
or contact Kathie Dolce (303-684-6674, Kathie@PeacefulBaby.com) or
Susan Lynch 303-250-5888, Susan@PeacefulBaby.com )
Does HypnoBirthing® “work”?
Between October 2005 and November 2006, 596 parents’ birth
reports were sent to the HypnoBirthing Institute. Of the 596 birth
reports, 99 were from outside the United States. The information
presented here was derived from the 497 birth reports from
HypnoBirthing® couples in the US.
The most comprehensive data currently available on birthing in the
United Sates are from Listening to Mothers II Report of the First
National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiences. New York:
Maternity Center Association, October 2006. www.maternitywise.
org/listeningtomothers/ (hereafter abbreviated as LTM II.) Limited
data is also available from the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention, 2004 (CDC.) Therefore, data from those reports were
used in order to have a comparison for the data from HypnoBirthing
couples.
HypnoBirthing® mothers experienced surgical birth (Cesarean section)
at a much lower rate than that reported by LTM II or the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
17% of HypnoBirthing® (HB) mothers birthed via Cesarean section,
compared to 32% of the mothers in LTM II. The CDC reported the
Cesarean rate for all births in 2004 was 29.1%. HB data does not
differentiate between primary and repeat Cesareans.
Labor interventions: HypnoBirthing® mothers used far fewer
interventions during their labors than other mothers.
Fifty-eight percent of HypnoBirthing mothers had their babies
with no pain medications at all, and only 27% chose to receive an
epidural. (Seventy-one percent of LTM II mothers had an epidural.)
HypnoBirthing mothers had their labors induced only half as
often as mothers responding to the LTM II survey.
Twenty percent of HypnoBirthing mothers who birthed vaginally
had Pitocin during their labor, versus 55% of the LTM II mothers.
Satisfaction: Nearly all HypnoBirthing® mothers were highly satisfied
with HypnoBirthing®; 80% were highly satisfied with their care
provider.
Sense of Well-being: Ninety-four percent of HypnoBirthing® mothers
reported feeling very healthy after the birth.
For most of their lives, women have been inundated with the negative
stories of other women’s birth experiences. Everyone, from their
mothers, sisters, 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 birth; and because of
this, women today hold an unprecedented fear of giving birth. This
extreme fear causes their bodies to become tense, and that tension
often prevents them from easily performing the normal, physiological
function of birth. The result?—exactly what they feared most--long,
painful, disappointing birthings.
People who are drawn to HypnoBirthing have long been searching for a
way that helps women give birth as calmly, safely, and gently as
possible. Until HypnoBirthing® was founded, it seemed almost
unattainable.
Through a very simple program of self-hypnosis and education, women
learn to release emotions tied to fear-based stories and
misinformation, 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.
About HypnoBirthing®
HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for
achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing.
This amazing program teaches you, along with your birthing companion,
the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner.
You will learn how to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant and
thus lessen, or even eliminate, discomfort and the need for medication.
When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and
body are in harmony, Nature is free to function in the same well-
designed manner that it does with all animal mothers in Nature.
You will be fascinated as you view HypnoBirthing® films, showing
laboring mothers, awake, alert and in good humor as they experience
the kind of gentle birth that you, too, can know when you are free of
the fear that causes pain and tension. Through self-hypnosis, special
breathing, and visualization, HypnoBirthing® teaches you to release all
prior programming about birth, how to trust your body and work with
it, as well as how to free yourself of harmful emotions that lead to pain-
causing fear and unyielding muscles.
HypnoBirthing® will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing
instincts. With HypnoBirthing®, you will not be in a trance or a sleep
state. You will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.
HypnoBirthing® Advantages
Teaches deep levels of relaxation to eliminate the fear that
causes tension
and, thus, pain
Greatly reduces and often eliminates the need for chemical
painkillers and drugs
Shortens the first phase of labor
Leaves mother alert, fresh, awake and with energy
Helps keep oxygen supplied to baby during birthing
Reduces the need for an episiotomy
Reduces and often eliminates fatigue during labor
Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm
birth for themselves and their baby
Gives the birthing companion an integral role in the birthing
Embraces the concept of pre-birth parenting
Teaches breathing techniques that allow a woman to gently
breathe her baby into the world without the violence of hard, physical
pushing.
Founder
Marie “Mickey” Mongan, founder of HypnoBirthing®, is an award-
winning therapist with over 30 years’ experience in counseling and
teaching on the college level and in the private sector. She holds
several awards in hypnotherapy, including the National Guild of
Hypnotists President’s Award and the coveted Charles Tebbetts
Award. In 2005, she became the first woman ever to receive the Guild’
s highest honor, the Rexford L. North Award.
Early in her career, she was named one of five outstanding educational
leaders in New Hampshire. And, in 1992, she taught in Moscow as a
diplomat for the Bridges for Peace Foundation.
She is the mother of four adult children, born in the mid-‘50s and early
‘60s, using the theories on which HypnoBirthing is based.
Her widely acclaimed book, HypnoBirthing® The Mongan Method, is the
textbook used in HypnoBirthing® classes.
For information about HypnoBirthing® classes, click the Classes button
or contact Kathie Dolce (303-684-6674, Kathie@PeacefulBaby.com) or
Susan Lynch 303-250-5888, Susan@PeacefulBaby.com )
Does HypnoBirthing® “work”?
Between October 2005 and November 2006, 596 parents’ birth
reports were sent to the HypnoBirthing Institute. Of the 596 birth
reports, 99 were from outside the United States. The information
presented here was derived from the 497 birth reports from
HypnoBirthing® couples in the US.
The most comprehensive data currently available on birthing in the
United Sates are from Listening to Mothers II Report of the First
National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiences. New York:
Maternity Center Association, October 2006. www.maternitywise.
org/listeningtomothers/ (hereafter abbreviated as LTM II.) Limited
data is also available from the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention, 2004 (CDC.) Therefore, data from those reports were
used in order to have a comparison for the data from HypnoBirthing
couples.
HypnoBirthing® mothers experienced surgical birth (Cesarean section)
at a much lower rate than that reported by LTM II or the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
17% of HypnoBirthing® (HB) mothers birthed via Cesarean section,
compared to 32% of the mothers in LTM II. The CDC reported the
Cesarean rate for all births in 2004 was 29.1%. HB data does not
differentiate between primary and repeat Cesareans.
Labor interventions: HypnoBirthing® mothers used far fewer
interventions during their labors than other mothers.
Fifty-eight percent of HypnoBirthing mothers had their babies
with no pain medications at all, and only 27% chose to receive an
epidural. (Seventy-one percent of LTM II mothers had an epidural.)
HypnoBirthing mothers had their labors induced only half as
often as mothers responding to the LTM II survey.
Twenty percent of HypnoBirthing mothers who birthed vaginally
had Pitocin during their labor, versus 55% of the LTM II mothers.
Satisfaction: Nearly all HypnoBirthing® mothers were highly satisfied
with HypnoBirthing®; 80% were highly satisfied with their care
provider.
Sense of Well-being: Ninety-four percent of HypnoBirthing® mothers
reported feeling very healthy after the birth.
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