If you’re looking to have a natural birth. Regardless at home or in the hospital practicing the art of hypnobirthing might be something you’d want to consider.
When I discuss this as an option with the families that I work with, my very first question that I’m always asked is what the hell is that?
So in this blog, I’m going to take a deep dive into what hypnobirthing is and how it can assist you.
Hypnobirthing teaches you the physiology of birth, how your body is designed to grow and birth a baby comfortably and efficiently.
It also teaches you how your mind triggers the production of certain hormones during pregnancy, labor and birth, which can either disrupt the natural flow of your physiology or help it work more efficiently. This teaches you how to stay calm during pregnancy.
One of the biggest problems we sit with in our generation is that we don’t know what birth truly is. In a non-biased way birth has become a very medical event. It’s something in my business that I’ve been trying to bring awareness to. Because…
Hypnobirthing brings back birth to its primal basics and it teaches you how capable the system you already have in place really is.
Now when I talk about hypnobirthing I’m always met with much confusion. I remember the first time I brought it up with my mom… she had me back in the year 2000, she was in her late 30s when she had me. So every time I talk about something she’s always fascinated by how new she thinks it is when I try to explain that it was there before me.
When I first told her about it she automatically thought it was about hypnotism and she thought that if I became a coach I would end up hypnotizing people during labor. At least that’s my understanding of how that conversation went.
But in all reality it’s through the use of positive affirmations and a sound understanding of the process that you’ll learn how important hypnobirthing can be. It enables you to clear any negative messages you have surrounding birth.
Maybe at first glance you can’t even think of one negative thing around birth but your subconscious mind holds many things and with hypnobirthing it can reprogram your beliefs to create a calmness and confidence about the experience.
Rather than gearing yourself up for trauma and disaster you are inadvertently taught to expect you will become excited and well equipped for an empowering and enjoyable experience.
Often when I ask new families what they fear about birth I’m often met with similar statements. (Having a doula can sometimes help you work through these fears.)
With hypnobirthing you’re going to gain wisdom and confidence that’s going to carry you into parenthood.
It isn’t a new way of birthing. It requires no leap of faith and it allows birth to happen in a closer alignment to the natural maternal and mammalian instincts.
So that’s what it truly means when you decide you’re going to study hypnobirthing. There are many books located in our library and even more online.
You can even find courses and hypnobirthing teachers.
But truly my highest recommendation is if you aren’t ready to implement an actionable step into this birth…then hypnobirthing might not be right for you.
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