Pregnancy Health: Hypnosis for Childbirth – Part 2
Oh wow this week has been a nightmare – I’ve had major issues with my computer – hence my silence for the past few days! Anyway as promised here’s the write up of the interview with Sheridan on Tuesday night and the links that I promised you:
Sheridan runs a group called Hypnobabies which is hypnosis for pregnancy and childbirth. So many women are choosing to go the natural route these days and this is where hypnosis for childbirth can really work.
Now as you probably know, this is something I was really keen on with my own pregnancy but I had some really bad experiences with the CD’s that I chose. At the time, I had not heard of Hypnobabies (to my dismay) and although I still believed in the effectiveness of the method, I was yet to find a good course that worked.
Then I met Sheridan. Sheridan is a mother of 3 and used hypnosis for childbirth with the younger two of her children. She had a great experience and later trained as a Hynobabies instructor. Sheridan is also a Doula, so she has a wealth of experience under her belt, (excuse the pun!).
The hypnobabies course is a complete course which runs for 5 weeks if you attend the class and 4 weeks if you choose the home study route. It takes you through several stages including learning how to put yourself into hypnosis, how to create a natural anaesthesia in your body and how to stop the fear-tension cycle.
The hypnobabies classes teach you a number of different tools to help with different stages of the birth, like different cues that you can use on your own or with your partner to help you relax or block out any inteference that may cause you to become apprehensive and create tension.
The result is that instead of feeling pain, you feel pressure – and Sheridan told me that even when the head is crowning (which feels like intense burning if you have no pain relief!), she felt no pain.
So here’s the links if you want to know more:
And if you have any questions please just pop them in the comments box and I will pass them over to Sheridan
