Welcome to Enjoy your Birth™
Childbirth can be one of the most rewarding and enjoyable experiences that life has to offer, yet too many women (and men!) spend their entire pregnancy worrying about how awful it might be, believing the only choices ahead of them are extreme pain, chemicals or surgery. Enjoy your Birth™ gives you the option of looking forward to the birth of your baby with confidence; to be calm, comfortable and in control when the time arrives, so you can look back on the birth with fondness and fulfilment. The techniques you'll learn have been tried and tested, and with practice are quite straightforward to master.
Whether on a workshop or through individual sessions, you'll learn how to use your mind to effect changes in your body; why labour can be painful and why it doesn't have to be; and how to release fear so that your body can function at its best. We'll cover simple yet highly effective self-hypnosis, relaxation and pain management techniques so you can prepare your mind and your body for the birth of your baby.
"Research at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide, Australia, where hypnosis is used for women in labour, shows it is highly effective. Women taught self-hypnosis reduced their need for analgesia by half, reduced epidurals by 70 per cent, and were more than twice as likely to be satisfied with their pain management in labour compared with other women." The Independent (30th January 2007)
Fathers are encouraged to attend and will not only experience the techniques first-hand but will also learn additional ways to support their partner through pregnancy, birth and beyond.
The Enjoy your Birth™ programme is suitable at any stage in your pregnancy. The sooner you start the more time you'll have to practice, though clients who've had time for only a couple of sessions have found even that's made a big difference.
Give me - Angela Massey - a call on 07811 284426 or email me today to talk about your specific needs or to book a session.
Is this the same as HypnoBirthing®
No, the Enjoy your Birth™ programme isn't the same as hypnobirthing. There will be similarities, as the techniques you'll learn in this programme and those employed in hypnobirthing are widely used, not only in childbirth, but also to help people cope with stress, remedy sleep problems, promote good health generally and even in place of anaesthetic in dentistry and minor surgery. For those who had never heard of hypnobirthing before now, hypnobirthing is a US-based ante-natal programme promoting natural birth and building on the work of Grantly Dick-Read, the British obstetrician who famously and successfully challenged the presumption that childbirth had to be painful, and inspired our very own NCT (National Childbirth Trust).