What is HypnoBirthing®
The HypnoBirthing® advantage
More benefits
Does it help the baby too?
At last…a role for Dad
Why choose to learn HypnoBirthing® with me?
See HypnoBirthing® for yourself
I began teaching this amazing childbirth education system in 2005 when I was looking for ways to encourage my birth clients to relax. Midwives and obstetricians, even those who were initially sceptical, are now warmly embracing hypnotherapy for childbirth.
I teach small friendly classes in the Hammersmith/ Shepherds Bush area: fees and dates
If you can’t manage a group class, ask me about private HypnoBirthing® classes in your own home.
What is HypnoBirthing®
HypnoBirthing® is a complete birth education programme that teaches simple but specific self hypnosis, relaxation and breathing techniques for a better birth.
HypnoBirthing® is much more than just self hypnosis or hypnotherapy for childbirth
With HypnoBirthing®, you'll discover that severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labour.
- You'll learn how to release the fears and anxieties you may currently have about giving birth, and how to overcome previous traumatic births
- HypnoBirthing® lets you discover and experience the joy and magic of birth - rather than the horrific ordeal everyone else seems hell-bent on telling you about.
Most importantly, you'll learn how to put yourself back in control of your birth.
You will not be in a trance or a sleep. You will be totally relaxed, but fully in control. You'll always be aware of what is happening to you, and around you but you will learn how to “go within” to your birthing body during labour.
HypnoBirthing® doesn't require any particular belief system, or prior experience. Some of our mums (and especially their partners!) have been very sceptical at first - until they experience it for themselves.
In fact, the more sceptical they are to start with, the more evangelical they are when they discover the power of HypnoBirthing®.
Just imagine welcoming each surge! Feeling peaceful... relaxing... and even smiling as your baby comes closer to you!
In short, HypnoBirthing® allows you to experience birth in an atmosphere of calm relaxation, free of the fear and tension that prevents the birthing muscles of your body from functioning as Nature intended them to.
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The HypnoBirthing® advantage
- Breathing techniques that actually help the birth.
- Massive reduction of need for any medication at all.
- Reduce your risk of needing an episiotomy during birth with a stunningly simple massage technique.
- How to be confident and informed when dealing with the medical staff - when to question, what to ask...and when it's time to let them take charge.
- How to release any fears you might have about childbirth...regardless of where they come from.
- Most importantly, you'll know how to relax and stay calm and in control - regardless of what's happening around you.
HypnoBirthing® is designed as a structured but informal class format that teaches about the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of birth. You'll learn why your body does what it does, as well as how.
The standard HypnoBirthing course includes a 196-page text book "HypnoBirthing®: A Celebration Of Life", an affirmations and relaxation CD, and numerous weekly handouts, in the price.
When you learn HypnoBirthing® with me, you will also be presented with THREE ADDITIONAL CDs and a FREE BIRTHEASE® BIRTH BALL AND PUMP.
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More benefits
Additional benefits that have been reported by mums include:
- Considerably shorter labour and birthing.
- Significantly fewer surgical births and fewer instrumental deliveries.
- A high rate of success in assisting breech-presented babies to turn into appropriate birthing position with the use of posture and hypnosis (in a study done at the University of Vermont of 100 women at 37 to 40 weeks, there was a 81% success rate with hypnosis).
- Highly energized mums in good spirits following births that are calm and gentle.
- You'll learn the techniques once for this birth, but then you can then use them again and again, no matter how many children you have.
- HypnoBirthing® techniques work very effectively with home births, water births, hospital births, birthing centres... It's your choice what kind of birth to have: HypnoBirthing® helps them all.
No reputable practitioner can promise you a 'perfect' birth but we can promise you a much, much more comfortable and relaxed birth than you would have had otherwise; and if your birth takes a different turn and intervention is necessary, you will find that HypnoBirthing® prepares and relaxes you in the face of the unexpected. You will be less likely to panic and thus less likely to cause the baby extra stress.
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Does it help the baby too?
Yes. We find that babies born using HypnoBirthing® tend to be calmer, feed better, sleep better and experience less trauma, because they are gently and calmly breathed into the world at their own pace.
Scientific research has also shown that the babies usually have higher Agpar scores as well (a measure of how well your baby is doing immediately after the birth, and then five minutes later).
At last - something useful for the dad or birth companion to do!
Instead of your birth companion being a helpless onlooker, they become a central part of the birthing process, helping you to stay calm and focussed on the techniques you've been taught. Your birth companion will learn how to support you in ways that will help labour and birth move forwards: how to be an active and useful participant, not a useless onlooker.
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There are so many HypnoBirthing practitioners…so why choose to learn HypnoBirthing® with Sarah Johnson?
- My course is enhanced and enriched by my own birthing experience and as a birth doula supporting clients birthing at local London hospitals.
- In addition to the traditional HypnoBirthing® syllabus I will be explaining to you:
- how to get your baby into the best position for birth;
- how to use movement in labour;
- breastfeeding basics;
- soothing your baby.
- My group classes are small and friendly – no chilly hall or hard chairs!
- I have been teaching HypnoBirthing® with clients all over London since 2005.
- One of my clients was filmed having her baby on UK Living’s Home Grown Babies series. Nancy’s birth is now shown in HypnoBirthing classes all over the country as a classic example of the great effects of HypnoBirthing®.
- As a doula I have seen HypnoBirthing® in action and I know it works.
- I am currently working towards the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy Certificate in Hypnotherapy and the prestigious National Childbirth Trust diploma in Antenatal Education. So I am combining birth AND hypnotherapy knowledge.
- In addition, if you choose to learn privately with me, you know you will complete the course…because I won’t let you skip classes! We plan the course around YOUR diary so that you AND your partner can devote time to learning how to make sure you are relaxed, informed and confident for the biggest day of your lives.
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See HypnoBirthing® for yourself
I will send you a DVD of the Home Grown Babies episode featuring my client Nancy and her wonderful home waterbirth using HypnoBirthing®. The nominal £2.00 cost (£5 to HypnoBirthing practitioners) will be refunded if you book a course with me.
Click here to request a DVD of Nancy’s birth story
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