HypnoBirthing®

The Mongan Method

Learn techniques to eliminate the fear and tension that cause pain in birthing.

For most of their lives, women have been inundated with the negative stories of other women's birth experiences. They have been conditioned to believe that excruciating pain is associated with birth. 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 and natural. They learn to trust their natural instincts and work with their bodies to bring their babies into the world in the calm, comfortable and gentle way that nature intended.

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 other creatures in nature.

You will be fascinated as you view HypnoBirthing® films, showing labouring mothers, awake, alert and in good humour 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, you are taught HypnoBirthing® techniques to release all prior programming about birth. You are shown 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 to work with your body. With HypnoBirthing®, you will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.

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• Teaches deep levels of relaxation to help you eliminate the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome
• Greatly reduces and often eliminates the need for chemical painkillers and drugs
• Shortens the first phase of labour
• Leaves mother alert, fresh, awake and with energy
• Teaches breathing techniques that allow a woman to gently breathe her baby into the world without the violence of hard, physical pushing
• Reduces the need for an episiotomy
• Explodes the myth that pain is a necessary accompaniment to labour
• 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

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"It was undoubtedly the most calm, exhilarating, beautiful birth (not to mention one of the shortest) I've attended so far as a birth doula. I plan to suggest it to all my upcoming clients."

-Leila Botsford, C.D.

"HypnoBirthing® has changed the way I practice obstetrics."

- Dr. Jeffrey Segil, FACOG, NH

"Outstanding! Easy-to-learn relaxation and breathing patterns guided me through a five- hour, pain-free labor. I will treasure the experience forever!"

-Kim Sweers, FL

"I'm a labor and delivery nurse. I work in the field of Obstetrics everyday. I can hardly believe my eyes as I watch HypnoBirthing® mothers in labor. It's amazing."

"How could I believe this when I had gone through not one, but two, long and excruciating labors? I was petrified. Then I found HypnoBirthing®. This birth took just over four hours. I was relaxed and comfortable all the way. It was wonderful!"

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The course is based on the widely acclaimed book, HypnoBirthing® The Mongan Method, by Marie "Mickey" Mongan, founder of HypnoBirthing®. Each couple will receive this book, plus the specially designed "Rainbow Relaxation" CD and class notes as part of the course.

The course is held at Indooroopilly in a very relaxed, friendly environment with a maximum of 4 couples attending each course. There are two options for attending my HypnoBirthing® courses. You can choose to attend:

1. 5 x classes held on Thursday evenings (6.30pm-9pm) …OR…
2. 3 x classes held on Sunday afternoons (1pm-5pm)

Private sessions may be negotiated if the above options are not possible for you.
Contact Evonne for more details (see below).

A natural approach to a safe, easier and more comfortable birthing.

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