What Can it Help
Promoting a Calm and Positive Birth Experience
Confident Childbirth is a series of treatments which incorporates
hypnotherapy, self hypnosis, relaxation, positive visualisations, pain
management strategies and many more highly effective tools to thoroughly
prepare the expectant mother mentally, emotionally and physically.
You'll have taken your mind and body through so many positive mental rehearsals for the birth that your body can be "primed" to go though its natural process very smoothly. You'll discover that severe pain does not have to go hand in hand with labour. You'll learn how to release the fears and anxieties that you may have about giving birth. This also means how to overcome any previous traumatic births allowing you to experience the true joy of birth.
You won't be in a trance or asleep - instead, you'll be able to chat, totally relaxed, but fully in control. You'll always be aware of what is happening to you, and around you. You'll learn how to remain in control of your labour and birth - rather than turning your birthing experience over to medical staff unnecessarily. This all means that mothers enter their labour and birth experience peacefully, confidently, calmly and fully in control - equipped to deal with whatever happens.
Confident Childbirth can be used for any type of birth whether at home, in hospital or at a birthing centre and it can be used for any future births too. It is a flexible approach taking into account your birth plan.
There are so many benefits you can gain by using Confident Childbirth, some are listed below:
Pre Birth
- The experience of pregnancy is an altogether a healthier, more enjoyable, positive and exciting process
- Provides the mother with more confidence to have a positive birth experience
- Increased coping mechanisms and ability to accommodate levels of discomfort
- Can clear trauma around previous negative birth experiences to allow mother to engage with the present pregnancy with a more confident and optimistic outlook
At Birth
- Increases the mother's ability to relax mentally and physically. This reduces fear, tension and pain in the mother thereby eliminating or greatly reducing the need for chemical painkillers
- Shorter labour times
- Paces the mother to her experience so that she is able to control her energy levels
- Calmer and more accepting mental state even in the the event the birth takes an unexpected turn or involves complications
- Reduced incidence of medical interventions deliveries (forceps, ventouse, Caesarean sections)
- Fewer breech presentations and other other complications
- No depression of respiratory or circulatory functions in mother or child
- No interference with normal mechanisms of labour
Post Birth
- Promotes higher Apgar score
- Reduced use of pain medication means reduction of undesirable post-operative effects for mother and baby
- Shorter hospital stay and quicker postnatal recovery
- Reduced incidence of post-natal depression
- Helps bonding of mother and baby
- Calmer, better adjusted baby which feeds and sleeps better due to its gentle passage into his/her new world
- Promotes lactation
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