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HypnoBirthing®-A Pure Natural Childbirth Experience by Lori Drienka
An early twentieth-century obstetrician named Dr. Grantly Dick-Read wrote,
- “Childbirth is fundamentally a spiritual, as well as physical experience.”
What if every person were brought into the world in a gentle, peaceful way? What effect would this have on society as a whole? It’s interesting to note that women in third world countries birth their children in much the same way that animals give birth, peaceful and gentle without the use of monitors, Pitocin, epidurals, etc. I have often wondered why women that don’t make it to the hospital to deliver are the ones that have the quickest, easiest deliveries. While it is true that there are cases that require medical intervention, most births can be done safely without medical intervention and certainly without the use of drugs to induce, intensify labor and supposedly kill the pain. In fact, there doesn’t have to be pain involved in the process at all.
HypnoBirthing®, a childbirth method developed by Marie Mongan originated in part out of the theories of Dr. Grantly Dick-Read who defined the “Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome”. He offered a primary premise that fear is the cause of tension within the body, and in Sign up for our newsletter hereparticular, in the uterus and that tension inhibits the natural birthing process, prolonging labor and causing pain. Eliminate the fear and you eliminate the tension and the pain. This method teaches a woman to work with her body and her baby to experience childbirth in a gentle, peaceful manner that most mirrors nature, free of drugs, pain and unnecessary stress on the baby, the mother and the birth companion. This can be done in a hospital setting as well as in birthing centers, home births, etc.
Childbirth is a natural, normal physiological function and normal, healthy women and their healthy babies can experience this process without pain or peril. Eliminating the fear and fatigue allows the mother to call upon her natural maternal instincts through the process to achieve a pure natural, joyous and comfortable experience. The result is shorter, truly rewarding and satisfying childbirth. HypnoBirthing® teaches the mother to breath the baby down rather than to push at the time of birth. Doesn’t this sound like a nicer way to come into this world rather than by being ‘pushed’ out?
Copyright Lori Drienka is a Certified HypnoBirthing® Practitioner. For more information please call the Eli Ashby Healing Arts Center of Arvada at (303) 463-6565 (Colorada, USA). http://EliAshbyHealingArts.com