Hypnobirthing
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Topic: Hypnobirthing
Posted By: _SMS_
Subject: Hypnobirthing
Date Posted: 02 January 2011 at 5:35pm
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Has anyone done this???
Also does anyone know if there are classes in the Hutt Valley or Wellington??? Also has anyone had success doing this after a bad first labour/birth??? Thanks -------------  
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Posted By: rachelsea
Date Posted: 02 January 2011 at 5:52pm
I know Karen used hypnobirthing during her labour (she borrowed a DVD or something of Emma) so you could ask her at the next coffee group  ------------- DD 4yrs DS 2yrs http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: sarasal
Date Posted: 02 January 2011 at 5:53pm
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I looked into it but there was no one doing it in my area & it was really expensive. You can get cds to learn it yourself. Self-hypnosis techniques are pretty simple. You just have to come up with a few affirmations for yourself, like "I trust my body" or "I'm willing to have a beautiful, gentle birth" or whatever you like. Then just go through the usual relaxation & visualisation techniques ... there are lots of videos on you-tube etc to teach yourself.
They generally go something like this: visualise yourself slowly descending a staircase into a lovely pool of water. The water gets deeper with each step. You go down 10 steps until you are totally immersed, you see a glowing light, swim towards it, find a treasure chest, open it and find one of your affirmations inside. Slowly back up the stairs into normal consciousness. |
Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 02 January 2011 at 8:57pm
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I don't know if I did hypnobirthing as such during my labour, but I did find keeping an open and positive mind and pretending each contraction was a wave that I was riding and 'one less' helped me a lot to a. dilate and b. take my mind off the pain.
Once I started thinking negatively was when it all went 'down hill' so to speak. But I found visualising myself riding that wave, and the end result, myself dilating, helped as did keeping the positive frame of mind that I could do this, each contraction was one less I had to experience and one step closer to meeting DD... That I just had to trust my body that it knew what to do. Hope that makes sense. ETA: The wave was during each contraction along with the 'one less' line. The rest was in between contractions. I had my eyes shut for all my contractions though, I found if I was watching the clock or anything it drove me batty timing! It was much quicker to visualise and not look at the clock! I also was in the birthing tub and moved my hands back and forward through the water like I was swimming kinda. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kalimirella
Date Posted: 03 January 2011 at 5:25am
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I didn't do hypnobirthing as such, but I did just tell myself, my body can do this, I have great inner faith that our bodies are made to do this naturally.
And i agree, I never watched the clock either. The other thing you might find useful, is I just relaxed into the contractions, and told myself this too shall FADE!!! And I seriously slept in between contractions :P, my body was very efficient and i went from 1cm to 10cm in 1h40mins :D ------------- Kiara is 3 and Teagan is 2, now we're expecting our long awaited 3rd! http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Emmecat
Date Posted: 03 January 2011 at 3:40pm
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Yes I borrowed the CD and book from Emma and yes the labour itself was awesome (till transition and birth and then it went to custard I LOVED the hypnobirthing and would totally do it again- not that I'm gonna lol- time went by really quickly and considering my labour was quick and I went from 4cm to fully dilated in 2 hours, I can say the contractions must've been coming pretty quickly. I could feel them but yeah, they didn't really hurt so much. I just went inside myself iykwim and focused on breathing and feeling them. I used a bit of gas and the birthing pool and they were both awesome -------------   http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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(But that had NOTHING to do with hypnobirthing not working- just everything to do with baby being in wrong position and getting badly stuck).Posted By: FionaO
Date Posted: 05 January 2011 at 3:21pm
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Oooh can someone tell me more about this. I am freaking out about giving birth, not that I had an awful birth, but I felt out of control which for me is probably what freaked me the most, I am a big believe of mind control so if anyone can point me to website reading info on this i would love to read it and just see what its all about. Sorry to thread jack. ------------- 
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Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 05 January 2011 at 4:52pm
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I got a book from the library Fiona. Its just given me a basic idea what it is but mainly talks about women from other cultures and how they birth and how much births have changed from being a natural thing to the complete opposite.
I did have a bad birth with dd. So i really want to get started on learning this early so hopefully its changes my way of thinking and panicking. I think there are classes you can attend but unsure of where in Wellington they are yet -------------
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 05 January 2011 at 8:07pm
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I would ask your mw, she would probably know or know of someone who could point you in the right direction.
Which book did you get? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: FionaO
Date Posted: 05 January 2011 at 8:36pm
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I am seeing MW on friday and she already knows I am freaking out a bit, so hopefully she has some ideas. what is the name of the book, not even sure what section I would look under at library. -------------
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 05 January 2011 at 8:58pm
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I used the book "Hypnobirthing. The Mongan method".
I had a hideous first birth experience, with every intervention under the sun - apart from c-section. I got PTSD after it and later PND :( I was determined to be completely in control the second time. I planned absolutely everything! I read the book and practised some of the breathing techniques often. Had monthly accupuncture for relaxation/energy. Compliled a list of postive affirmations- some from the tribalbaby website and some from the book - and read them often and during labour. I read up on and taught my DH and Mum accupressure techniques to use on my during labour. I had a meeting with DH/Mum/midwife when I told them all how I wanted the birth to go and what I wanted each of them to do, and what would happen in different situations - and gave them all lists, lol. I decided not to time contractions or time labour. I decided not to have any routine interventions, and to only have interventions if there was something wrong with me/baby - had 1 scan all pregnancy, no stretch and sweeps, and told midwife I only wanted minimal internals during labour- and only if absolutely necessary. I cant say I really had a hypnobirth, but I did use the techniques, was very calm for most of it - started to panic at one point, but was reassured and relaxed again when the mw said it was cos I was in transition! DS is one next Mon, and I still cant believe what an awesome, amazing, natural experience his birth was. I was so freaked out after Isla's, I could never imagine that it could go so differently and so well! |
Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 05 January 2011 at 9:01pm
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The book ive got is called Hypnobirthing. Its just from the pregnancy section in the library. It was the first one i saw. So im going to have another look next time im there.
Im going to ask my mw next time about acupuncture. After dds labour & birth i just think i really need to try this so i dont have a repeat. -------------
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 05 January 2011 at 9:26pm
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Look into acupressure, a friend of mine did it with her first and went into labour a few hours later about 2 days before her DD, it's meant to be really effective, more so than acupuncture. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Topkat
Date Posted: 07 January 2011 at 11:08am
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My girlfriend takes class's in Nelson she lernt the art while living in the UK and is now a trained teacher as a result of her beautiful birth with her first baby
My first birth was horrible really long no patten to contractions baby round the wrong way etc and in the end a c-section due to waters baing broken for two long and getting an infection! I am very scared of giving birth again so am looking into hyponbirthing as I have herd nothing but good things does anyone know of class's in dunendin? I will most prob end up with a book or cd  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Jacobsmumma
Date Posted: 07 January 2011 at 12:09pm
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Hmm I might have to look into this further. Do you think reading the book will be enough? I know classes would be beneficial but I don't think our $$ will stretch that far. ------------- 
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Posted By: _SMS_
Date Posted: 07 January 2011 at 12:15pm
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I guess it depends how dare the classes are, but for us it would be more beneficial for dp to go to the classes. There is no way i could get him to read a book about it
I couldnt find any more books from my library so might try another library and see if they have any -------------
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 07 January 2011 at 3:17pm
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Sabrina, I went to my local library but they only had the one book which Kellz mentioned above. The Wellington Public Library might have more though but when I did a search that was the only one that came up...
There could be something online that you could rope your DP into watching but agree classes could be better and I know with my DP he wouldn't really 'care' unless he was in a class - anything I told him about babies he wasn't too interested until we went to antenatal then it was 'make sure you listen to EVERYTHING she says!'  ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Emmi_
Date Posted: 07 January 2011 at 9:51pm
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Sabrina, your more than welcome to borrow my book (Ive bnought it in prep for #2)
There are classes in welly, and LH, but they are about quite expensive from memory, about $400 I think?? Email her and ask (she seemed lovely) ------------- 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 10 January 2011 at 9:18am
| We would have liked to do the classes too but the only ones we could find were in Auck, and they ran over 6 weeks,....would possibly have done it if they were still running a weekend course tho. |
Posted By: Polina21225227
Date Posted: 05 October 2017 at 11:30pm
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