HypnoBirthing in the News...
 | Hypno What? Jessica Alba’s Strange-Sounding Birthing Class
Jessica Alba had fans scratching their heads when she announced to the world that she’s a huge fan of HypnoBirthing classes. Does the pregnant star stare at a swinging stopwatch until she’s feeling very sleepy? And if so, why? ...“[New England Patriots] quarterback Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen also did it. It’s not based on the theory of getting mom through labor — it’s teaching her how labor is natural and how her body was made to do it,” Read on... |
 | Birth Bliss
The phone rang at 7:30 a.m. and I stumbled out of bed, bleary-eyed and eight months pregnant, to find a message from Dan Gilman: his wife Laura Beth was in labor. I had never met the Gilmans, but they had generously invited me to witness the birth of their third child. They were using a pain-control technique I was learning myself: hypnobirthing. Read on... |
 | Look into my eyes...You won't feel a thing There is evidence that “hypnobirthing” works. At the University of Florida, Professor Paul Schaubel and his colleagues showed how women who learnt self-hypnosis before giving birth needed less medication, had fewer complications and were more likely to deliver healthier babies. They also suffered less stress and anxiety in the weeks before birth. Read on... |
 | WebMD: Hypnosis in the Delivery Room Breakey used HypnoBirthing® for two of her three children. HypnoBirthing® teaches women how to hypnotize themselves to manage their labor, helping them to relax and let their bodies take over. The theory is that, in the absence of fear and tension, severe pain does not have to accompany labor. In this calm state, endorphins — naturally occurring chemicals in the body that can relieve pain — replace the stress hormones that contribute to pain, proponents say. Read on... |
 | I swore I'd never be there, but my baby's birth was mesmerising Ms Mongan, by contrast, insisted that "men do feel wonderful" being present at the birth, and that being on hand is, "part of completing what you started as a couple" and that my prespositionedence was necessary to pass on the right "energy" to the child. Read on... |
 | HypnoBirthing®: No Swinging Watch or Pain Jessica Alba, Pamela Anderson Chose Mind of Matter to Create Calm Labor and Birth. In Marie Mongan’s day, child birth meant a sterile, medicalized birth with drugs, and if you happened to be awake, lots of painful pushing. “Most women were totally anesthetized and out cold, and their babies were taken from them with forceps, except for the very few who didn’t make it to the hospital and had them by the side of the road,” said Mongan, now 77. Read on... |
