HypnoBirthing®, the Mongan Method, founded in 1989 by Marie Mongan, is a comprehensive childbirth education class that helps parents have a more peaceful, empowered birth. We teach that pregnancy and birth are natural, normal, and healthy events for a woman. Anatomy, physiology, and relaxation skills are covered to demonstrate that birth can be easier and more comfortable than what is taught in traditional childbirth classes. If you desire the most positive and wonderful birth experience possible, then HypnoBirthing is a great addition to that vision. HypnoBirthing teaches an expectant mother, along with her companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a comfortable and confident manner, often free from severe discomfort and the need for medication. This childbirth method is a way of restoring faith and trust in a woman's body to give birth, and includes skills that flow into all parts of life. It is as much a philosophy as it is a technique for achieving a rewarding, relaxing, and stress-free birth.

The classes are five weekly 3-hour sessions in my home with no more than four couples, plus a potluck with parents who have recently birthed to hear birth stories. I call this session "Show and Tell." The cost of the class is a sliding scale. Please contact me for more information. The fee includes the HypnoBirthing book, a conditioning CD, many handouts, and class instruction, plus watching videos of other HypnoBirthing moms.

You will be fascinated as you view HypnoBirthing films showing laboring mothers, awake, alert, and in good humor as they experience the kind of gentle birth that you, too, can know. HypnoBirthing teaches you to release all prior programming about birth, to trust your body and work with it, as well as how to free yourself of harmful emotions that lead to constricting, pain-causing fear.

When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and her mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all other creatures.

When you have your baby with HypnoBirthing, you will not be in a trance or a sleep state. You will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.

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Course highlights:

  • How the mind and emotions affect the body
  • Why labor can hurt and why it does not have to
  • Releasing fear--the enemy of labor
  • Preparing your mind and body for birthing
  • Avoiding artificial induction and episiotomy
  • Developing ultimate depth relaxation
  • Understanding the phases of labor
  • Preparing your Birth Preferences
  • Breathing your baby down to birth

Read Heidi's birth stories for her children, Kate, Zach, and Tess

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