HypnoBirthing® Information for International Use
  
As the information age advances more and more woman are realizing that pregnancy and childbirth are a natural happening. What most people do not know is that 95% of the time pregnant woman are at low or no risk for complications. Many complications you hear about in the hospital are preventable.  In the United States the need for medical interventions during labor and delivery are usually due to inducing labor, trying to speed up labor, epidural use and/or restrictions from eating.  Often in this busy day and age people are using these medical interventions for personal preferance rather than out of medical necessity.  Even though many doctors and/or birthing mothers choose to interfere with the normal process of pregancy and birthing YOU do not have to.  You CAN have a natural safe birth in the hospital without medical intervention.
 
 Imagine a natural, calm, safe Birth. . .
Imagine not using any drugs during or after Labor. . .
Imagine having the birth you saw in your own mind prior to having an amazing hypnobirth. . .
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All you have to do to is to make one good decision and stick to that decision.  That decision is to allow the normal process of pregnancy AND birthing to happen at their own pace.  Most people decide to interfere with the natural process of birth because of FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real).  They think they will likely have pain.   By PREPARING for a great natural birth you will likely avoid using medical intervention because you will learn that you do not have to experience pain with child birth. You will know what to expect during the birthing process and realize that birth can be a wonderful calm experience.  One method of natural childbirth that is becoming very popular today is HypnoBirthing®
HypnoBirthing®is not to be used as an alternative to the advice of a medical professional. By taking the courses with a certified educator you will learn how to ask the right questions to avoid routine, arbitrary or unnecessary medical interventions.
 
What is HypnoBirthing®? 
 
HypnoBirthing® “The Mongan Method” is a philosophy as well as a technique for having a safer, easier, more comfortable birth. The term HypnoBirthing® with a capital B was trademarked by Marie Mongan in the late 1980’s. Other people use the term hypnobirthing to describe their way of using hypnosis with birthing. The content here refers to HypnoBirthing®as researched and studied by Marie Mongan.
 
HypnoBirthing®“The Mongan Method” is taught by an educator who has been certified by the HypnoBirthing Institute and reviewed by Marie Mongan herself. There are five two and a half hour childbirth classes in which you learn how to have the natural birth you are looking for. More details on the class can be found by clicking on Birth Class here or at the top of the page.
 
About the history. . .
This concept has been being used for centuries by women all over the world. It was recognized and recorded as early as Hippocrates and Aristotle. A twentieth-century English obstetrician named Dr. Grantly Dick-Read held the theories of this methods origin. You can read about his theories in Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth . As for the rest of the history Marie Mongan states it best in her book HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method: A natural approach to a safe, easier, more comfortable birthing (3rd Edition)