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Rel­e­vant Articles

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Birthing Videos

What can you expect? Watch the birthing videos on our site to see how well Hyp­nob­a­bies® has worked for others.

What is Hypnobabies?

This free MP3 intro­duces you to the ben­e­fits of using child­birth hyp­no­sis as well as the spe­cific advan­tages of our Hyp­nob­a­bies® program.

Free Relax Me MP3

This hyp­no­sis ses­sion allows you to expe­ri­ence deep phys­i­cal relax­ation through­out your entire body and a pow­er­ful hyp­no­sis session.

Have a Question?

Check out our Fre­quently Asked Ques­tions page for answers to the most com­monly asked ques­tions about the Hyp­nob­a­bies® program.

If you wish to accom­plish some­thing in real­ity, first pic­ture your­self achiev­ing it in the imagination.

- Galileo

Imag­ine this…

You enter your birthing time fully edu­cated and fully con­fi­dent that you will attain a peace­ful and bliss­ful birth. As you begin your birthing time your mind remains focused and your body remains com­pletely relaxed…so relaxed that your cervix just opens right up. Imag­ine that as your cervix opens your birthing waves (con­trac­tions) are effec­tive yet very com­fort­able. You think of these con­trac­tions as a gen­tle hug around your waist that will bring your baby closer to meet­ing you so you can begin this beau­ti­ful jour­ney together. Imag­ine that you are able to keep your eyes open, talk, laugh, move around, posi­tion your­self the way that feels most com­fort­able and most effec­tive at bring­ing your baby down and out. Imag­ine the sup­port you feel from those around you attend­ing your baby’s birth, the pos­i­tive calm energy that floats in the air and through­out your body, mind, and spirit. Imag­ine the euphoric feel­ing as you have just birthed your baby and you are now hold­ing your baby and begin breast­feed­ing successfully.

You did it!

You are feel­ing empow­ered and uplifted! You have just birthed your baby using a unique and very pow­er­ful com­plete child­birth course called Hypnobabies®.

Here at Bliss­fully Birthed, we are here for you! We are spe­cially trained to teach you  self hyp­no­sis, how to cre­ate med­ical anes­the­sia to the areas of your body to reduce or elim­i­nate pain, and retrain your mind to know that birth is nor­mal and nat­ural.  You will also learn how to have a healthy preg­nancy with in depth nutri­tion and exer­cise, bond with your baby in utero, and release fears related to preg­nancy and birth through using Hyp­nob­a­bies® in the greater St. Louis area.

For decades in the United States, birth has been per­ceived as “painful” and that your body is work­ing against you inef­fec­tively. When some­one tells you, you will expe­ri­ence pain, you are more likely to antic­i­pate pain there­fore, you will feel pain. Well, here at Hyp­nob­a­bies® and at Bliss­fully Birthed we are here to share with you that your body is amaz­ing and that it was designed to do this very mag­i­cal and sacred thing. We are here to share that through using neu­tral words and pow­er­ful hyp­notic sug­ges­tions you can recon­di­tion your mind to per­ceive these sen­sa­tions just as that… sen­sa­tions, a tight gen­tle hug.

At Bliss­fully Birthed fea­tur­ing Hyp­nob­a­bies®, we don’t teach pain cop­ing tech­niques, we teach pain elim­i­na­tion through the use of Ger­ald Kein’s amaz­ing med­ical hyp­notic anes­the­sia. We will teach you how to com­pletely relax every mus­cle and nerve in your body so that you can have a beau­ti­ful, bliss­ful, gen­tle, and peace­ful birth. Often our moth­ers will notice that their babies are calm, relaxed and alert after birth and in gen­eral have a calm dis­po­si­tion in early life. Most antepar­tum nurses notice a dif­fer­ence in the tem­pera­ment of a baby who has received pitocin, epidural, and/or a trau­matic entry by way of for­ceps or vac­uum deliv­ery. They state that those babies seem mad and cry a lot. Where as babies who were born nat­u­rally, seem to be calm,  happy and alert.

At Bliss­fully Birthed, we pro­vide you with the tools you need using Hyp­nob­a­bies® to attain the birth you desire. Birth Peace­fully. Birth Con­fi­dently. Birth Blissfully.

VISUALIZE IT. BELIEVE IT. ACHIEVE IT!

Hyp­nob­a­bies® is a 6-week com­plete child­birth edu­ca­tion course cov­er­ing Nutri­tion, Pre­na­tal Exer­cise, Stay­ing Healthy and Low Risk, Birth Plans (pref­er­ences), Com­fort in Preg­nancy, Con­sumer issues (Birthing Choices), New Baby Care, and much more! Instead of doing pat­terned breath­ing or sim­ple relax­ation exer­cises, our Hypno-Moms and their Birth Part­ners do hyp­no­sis ses­sions in class using Ger­ald Kein’s Pain­less Child­birth tech­niques so that our Hypno-moms can work towards hav­ing lit­tle or no pain when giv­ing birth. We do a dif­fer­ent hyp­no­sis ses­sion in most of our classes and each hypno-couple takes home a mod­i­fied script of the same ses­sion to work with, learn­ing a new part of the pro­gram each week for 6 weeks. There is also read­ing home­work each week. Since Hyp­nob­a­bies is a com­plete child­birth edu­ca­tion pro­gram, there is no need for our stu­dents to take any other child­birth classes.  Hyp­nob­a­bies was designed to FULLY pre­pare you for your birthing day. We have it all!

Hypno-Ane-WHAT?

The most com­mon mis­con­cep­tions about Hyp­nob­a­bies Child­birth Hyp­no­sis are, that hyp­no­sis is merely another method of cop­ing with pain, or that it’s pain man­age­ment, or that hyp­no­sis is just flow­ery guided imagery deliv­ered in a monot­one voice that induces deeper relax­ation than other meth­ods, or that hyp­no­sis dis­tances a woman from her body dur­ing herbaby’s birthing and denies her basic phys­i­o­log­i­cal responses that oth­ers cre­ate through endur­ing pain, or that women won’t remem­ber their baby’s births, or that moms must lie still and lis­ten intently to hyp­no­sis record­ings… their birthings entirely scripted, for hyp­no­sis to be of any use. None of these assump­tions are true of real self-hypnosis, deep­ened to the level of ‘som­nam­bu­lism’, which is the depth of hyp­no­sis that one must achieve to cre­ate an anes­the­sia effect in the body.

When a birthing woman is pro­foundly relaxed and deeply in a state of self-hypnosis, she responds to pre-programmed, post-hypnotic sug­ges­tions so pro­foundly that her body cre­ates endor­phins, ser­a­tonins, mela­tonins and other relax­ing hor­mones and stress-reducing brain chem­i­cals. This hap­pens auto­mat­i­cally and all the smooth mus­cles in her body, all the mus­cles con­trolled by the auto­nomic ner­vous sys­tem relax so pow­er­fully, that a phys­i­o­log­i­cal response occurs that is per­ceived by the woman as a less­en­ing of phys­i­cal sen­sa­tions, or a pro­found dimin­ish­ing of dis­com­fort, and for the major­ity of them…the elim­i­na­tion of pain entirely. Hyp­nother­a­pists call this phe­nom­e­non, “hypno-anesthesia”.

It’s com­mon knowl­edge among those who teach clin­i­cal hyp­no­sis for med­ical purposes,that hyp­no­sis can slow a person’s pulse and res­pi­ra­tion rates, and lower blood pressure,and elim­i­nate pain entirely. Doc­tors and den­tists use this type of hyp­notic con­di­tion­ing with their patients to cre­ate “hypno-anesthesia” for their patients who are aller­gic to med­ical anes­the­sia. These doc­tors and den­tists per­form surg­eries with no med­ical anes­the­sia, with no pain and noside-effects.

Hyp­nob­a­bies eyes-open child­birth hyp­no­sis teaches the same med­ical self-hypnosis tech­niques that doc­tors and den­tists use for their patients who can­not have med­ical anes­the­sia. Women lis­ten to hyp­no­sis scripts to learn a cue to instantly enterself-hypnosis, and how to deepen it to the level of som­nam­bu­lism in order to cre­ate an anes­the­sia effect in their bod­ies. Hyp­nob­a­bies moth­ers expe­ri­ence their con­trac­tions as “only pres­sure” or a bear­ing down sensation,or even like being squeezed or hugged tightly. Many Hyp­nob­a­bies moms have described the sen­sa­tion of their con­trac­tions as being very much like the sen­sa­tion of a tight blood pres­sure cuff…intense, even some­times mildly uncom­fort­able, but not auto­mat­i­cally painful.

Hyp­nob­a­bies moms learn to cre­ate hypno-anesthesia at the drop of a fin­ger, lit­er­ally. They learn to deepen their abil­ity to do so by lis­ten­ing to a script des­ig­nated to this pur­pose. Then with prac­tice and by lis­ten­ing to other scripts, these women learn to strengthen the effects of this hypno-anesthesia in their bod­ies. They reg­u­larly prac­tice scripts with their birth part­ners dur­ing their preg­nan­cies to instill these skills as an auto­matic response to the sen­sa­tions of their con­trac­tions when their labor begins. Through rep­e­ti­tion and the result­ing com­pound­ing effect, Hyp­nob­a­bies moms learn to do all of this with their ‘eyes open’ so that they can move around and respond to their birthing body’s cues and their baby’s movements.

Why Choose Hypnobabies

  • The Ulti­mate Rea­son: a calm, com­fort­able and easy, nat­ural birth!
  • You and your part­ner will be more relaxed dur­ing preg­nancy, labor, and birth.
  • Shorter labor due to lack of resis­tance in your birthing muscles.
  • Fewer com­pli­ca­tions and inter­ven­tions, as your body and mind stay com­pletely relaxed dur­ing labor.
  • Proper posi­tion­ing of your baby dur­ing preg­nancy and birth: Pos­te­rior and Breech babies can be turned with hypnosis.
  • Fewer drugs or no drugs at all, mean­ing less risk of harm­ful side effects for you and your baby.
  • The birthing envi­ron­ment is much more calm and peace­ful when the nat­ural child­birth mother is com­fort­able, relaxed, and confident.
  • Birth part­ners are relaxed and con­fi­dent and are able to enjoy their part­ners preg­nancy and child­birth. These skills will ben­e­fit them for the rest of their lives.
  • Our Hypno-moms are eas­ily “depro­grammed” from the usual neg­a­tiv­ity of child­birth sto­ries and sce­nar­ios they may have heard or read by way of train­ing in Hyp­nob­a­bies classes and audio CD’s that have pos­i­tive mes­sages and hyp­notic sug­ges­tions. This auto­mat­i­cally allows them to have a much more pos­i­tive atti­tude and con­fi­dence in birthing.
  • Elim­i­na­tion of the Fear/Tension/Pain Cycle.

Yeah… but does it really work?

The fol­low­ing are sta­tis­tics from our founder’s stu­dents over sev­eral years:

  • Com­fort­able labors – 70–75% Women who report that they felt mostly pres­sure or tight­en­ing sen­sa­tions. Most of these women described their labor as “pain-free”.
  • Com­fort­able until tran­si­tion – 10–15% Pres­sure only until the 10–60 minute tran­si­tional period with mild to intense degrees of sen­sa­tion there­after. “Very manageable.”
  • Com­fort­able until active labor – 10% with mild to intense degrees of sen­sa­tion there­after. This group can have any num­ber of things that affect their birth expe­ri­ences: pos­te­rior or mal-presentations that do not resolve, other labor com­pli­ca­tions, emo­tional issues, lack of sup­port, or they sim­ply did not do their home­work (30 – 35 min­utes a day)! Hyp­no­sis won’t help some­one who is not will­ing to do the work involved in prepar­ing for her baby’s birth.
  • Hyp­nob­a­bies uses real Med­ical Hyp­no­sis tech­niques called “hypno-anesthesia.” These are the same ones used for non-anesthetic med­ical and den­tal sur­gi­cal pro­ce­dures, (for those peo­ple who are aller­gic to med­ical anes­thet­ics) and we have a very high suc­cess rate of unmed­icated com­fort­able births.
  • 7 instruc­tional hyp­no­sis scripts on CD, 6 scripts on paper, 2 Birthing CDs that keep our Hypno-moms in hyp­no­sis dur­ing labor, 18 hours of instruc­tion and includes a 218 page work­book. This is more than any other Hyp­no­sis for Child­birth pro­gram. All of this com­pound­ing (repi­ti­tion) is set­ting your inner mind up for success!
  • Birth Partner’s Relax and Be con­fi­dent CD along with their very own Birth Partner’s Guide Book­let and a Quick Ref­er­ence Guide for labor.
  • 2 Birthing Day CDs which our moms have said to be gold.
  • New Mom and Baby Care book­let and many handouts.
  • A Birthing Rehearsal in class 6: So that our Hypno-moms can expe­ri­ence using their actual Hyp­nob­a­bies tech­niques and many dif­fer­ent labor posi­tions while in hyp­no­sis in class which is invalu­able, and also shows the Birth Part­ner hands on exactly how to use his/her cues and assis­tance. What a con­fi­dence builder and is unique to Hypnobabies!
  • Six Hyp­nob­a­bies scripts in print and spiral-bound so your part­ner can learn how to guide you into hyp­no­sis and prac­tice with you regularly.
  • CD just for your part­ner: Birth Part­ner Be Calm & Confident
  • Do you need to see it to believe it? Videos of Hypno-parents just like you using their Hyp­nob­a­bies knowl­edge and skills dur­ing their baby’s birth!

Hyp­nob­a­bies National Med­ical Report