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HypnoBirthing - Hypnosis for Childbirth
Courses at Annandale and Glenorie
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You are having a baby!
A very special event is taking place in your life, a wonderfully natural, healthy and spiritual event. It is one of the most beautiful and joyous experiences. New life is forming, growing and moving within you. The realisation that you will give birth and become a mum soon is bound to evoke feelings and emotions that you may not have felt before.
Satisfying, healthy and natural childbirth has a lot to do with healthy, happy and loving expectation. Through the HypnoBirthing childbirth education course, you will learn how your mind can build and achieve that healthy and happy expectation for a satisfying outcome.
By attending HypnoBirthing classes you will come to know how nature has been working with you from the beginning to prepare your body, and how your body and mind continue to work with you throughout your pregnancy and childbirth. Nature is wise, learn to draw on that wisdom to give birth in a most natural, comfortable way. When a woman is healthy and her baby is healthy, her desire for a natural calm birth can become a reality.
What is HypnoBirthing?
HypnoBirthing - The Mongan Method, is a unique method of natural childbirth education. Enhanced by self-hypnosis, it provides the missing link, that allows women to use their natural instincts to bring about a safer, easier, more comfortable birth in a way that most mirrors nature. As a birth method, HypnoBirthing is as new as tomorrow and as old as ancient times. HypnoBirthing helps reduce tension, anxiety and fear, which often prevent a mum from experiencing a positive birth.
HypnoBirthing is not meant to replace the valuable assistance that obstetricians, midwives or birth centre staff can provide during labour. Should special circumstances arise, the midwife and staff are on hand to deal with a mum who is relaxed, focused and in control, rather than someone who is panicky, in pain and out of control. You can make the whole experience easier and more comfortable for yourself; your baby and everyone involved.
Through relaxation and natural techniques taught in the HypnoBirthing course, you will learn to replace fear and anxiety with confidence, serenity and happy celebration. Class attendance entitles you to receive an additional Childbirth meditation CD to help you continue to practice the techniques you will learn in the HypnoBirthing class.
In learning this most natural and calm birth method, you will find that you have so many options available. Learn how to allow your mind, your body and your baby to work together in natural harmony to provide you the safe and satisfying birth that you seek. Women love to share their birth stories with us, many have given birth using the active birth methods learned in the HypnoBirthing course.
"Active birth story - Learning the Hypnobirthing method allowed Jasper and me to have such a wonderful, unforgettable birth experience. The knowledge of just how our bodies worked during birth proved invaluable, I then understood how to work with and take my queues from my body. To flow with and relax and let Jasper do his thing - beautiful and amazing! The midwife was truly impressed by the whole birth, she said it was amazing.
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Father's or Support Partner's role
As a father or support partner, you may be unsure of your role. Many fathers hold fear surrounding their ability to watch someone they love experience discomfort. The HypnoBirthing course will help you to overcome those fears. You will come to know that through this programme you and the mum-to-be will learn techniques that will reduce her discomfort in labour and help her experience a truly satisfying birth. It's your love and support that make a true difference.
HypnoBirthing is a relaxing, rewarding and stress-free approach to prepare a pregnant woman and her support partner for a more comfortable childbirth experience... what other parents say...
"Thank you so much for helping me learn how to have a baby naturally. Hypnobirthing is an incredible experience.
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What is Hypnosis?
To understand more about hypnosis view our separate page... About Hypnosis
The HypnoBirthing course will teach you to use hypnosis in a constructive and empowering way. Self-hypnosis is a valuable skill, useful in many areas of everyday life.
Hypnosis is a valuable tool, ideal for pregnancy and childbirth. Its main advantage is reducing anxiety and fear, and alleviating pain. Your HypnoBirthing practitioner provides the opportunity for this learning to take place easily, so that you can use it effectively during the birth of your baby, to have a peaceful, calm birth.
HypnoBirthing Origins
The HypnoBirthing Course was developed in the USA in 1989 by Marie Mongan, a Childbirth Educator and Hypnotherapist. It is based on the work of an obstetrician Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, the early promoter of Natural Childbirth. Dr. Read coined the phrase Fear-Tension-Pain syndrome, which he believed to be the underlying reason for pain in childbirth. Marie Mongan added self-hypnosis to the specific birth breathing rhythms and combined with Dr. Reads findings, enhanced the method of teaching natural childbirth, helping mothers around the Globe to have an easier more comfortable and calm birth.
HypnoBirthing practitioners are currently working throughout Australia, New Zealand, the USA, the UK, Canada and Europe.
About Your HypnoBirthing Practitioner
Katherine Ferris was certified as a HypnoBirthing practitioner at the very first course held by Marie Mongan in Australia. Katherine is very passionate about helping mums gain confidence to have a more comfortable birth. She has a natural teaching ability, which is a valuable tool in the field of childbirth education and HypnoBirthing teaching methods. Having been a mother and experienced natural childbirth, she is able to share with other women the joy of welcoming a baby into this world in a calm and peaceful way, the way nature intended. Several snapshots depicted above are of her own two daughters during their pregnancy. Both have used the HypnoBirthing Method of childbirth and are thrilled with their birth experience.
Katherine Ferris GSPP; MASTA; CHBE; CMAHA
Registered P.S.H. Therapist
BodyMind Psychotherapist
Clinical Hypnotherapist
Certified HypnoBirthing Educator
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