Welcome to cloud nine HypnoBirthing
“My dream is that every woman, everywhere, will know the joy of a safe, satisfying birth for both her baby and herself - one she’ll not need to forget.”
(Marie F. Mongan, 1999)
My name is Alison and I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist working as a HypnoBirthing Practitioner primarily in Edinburgh and East Lothian. If you would like to read a little more about me do check out BEST clinics main webpage.
Congratulations on your pregnancy, it is such a truly special and important time in your life and that of your baby. I am delighted that you are considering the Mongan Method of HypnoBirthing to support the pregnancy and birth of your baby.
“The original and still the best.”
The Mongan Method of HypnoBirthing® is the longest running community dedicated to using hypnosis in childbirth. It was founded in the United States in early 1989 by Marie “Mickey” Mongan. The Mongan Method of HypnoBirthing® is the pioneer and leader in birth education with hypnosis. Several decades and thousands of classes later, HypnoBirthing® is the most widely used childbirth hypnosis program in the world. Today, there are HypnoBirthing® practitioners in 46 countries around the world who are helping women become aware of the benefits of calm, instinctive birthing for themselves and their babies.
About HypnoBirthing
HypnoBirthing using the Mongan method is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing. HypnoBirthing teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner. You will learn to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant and thus lessen or eliminate discomfort and the need for medication.
You will be fascinated as you view HypnoBirthing films showing labouring mothers, awake, alert and in good humour as they experience the kind of gentle birth that you, too, can experience. I love watching these films and have added a link to one here that I think you may enjoy.
Daisy’s HypnoBirthing Story
HypnoBirthing teaches you to release all prior programming about birth, how to trust your body and work with it, as well as how to free yourself of harmful emotions that lead to pain-causing fear and unyielding muscles.
HypnoBirthing will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing instincts. With HypnoBirthing you will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.
A mother's experience...
It was so easy, that I didn’t think I could be far along already...........every time I felt a surge coming, I shut my eyes and made a humming noise that tailed off to just slow breathing/almost blowing out as the surge ended....
I got out of the pool and went to the bathroom, had two surges and felt my baby coming out on the 3rd surge!
A dad's experience:
Our beautiful daughter was eventually born with the aid of a birthing stool at 12.38pm. My wife did an amazing job and gave birth without pain-killers of drugs. That meant that when our baby was born, she was alert, calm and fed pretty much straight away. I instantly saw beyond the blood, vernix and the other stuff and I cut the cord without fear and with a sense of pride and calm that still makes me smile today. My daughter and I had skin to skin contact within five to ten minutes of the birth...it was amazing!!
Cloud nine HypnoBirthing Programme – The Mongan Method
The programme is made up of 5 sessions each lasting about 2.5 hours. Where possible these will be take place weekly although this is flexible. I currently deliver the programme in private classes for you and your partner, birth companion or whoever you would like to be there to support you. I am happy to work with you in your own home, BEST Hypnotherapy office at 3 Coates place in Edinburgh or alternatively from my home in Dunbar.
What will you learn on the programme?
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Everything you need to know to achieve safer, easier and more comfortable birth
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To explode the myth that pain is a necessary accompaniment to labour
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To consider child birthing history in order to understand where we are today in respect of pregnancy and birthing of our babies
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Techniques of deep relaxation to help you eliminate the fear and tension and swap these for feelings of relaxation and release
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How your body is naturally designed to conceive, nurture and birth your baby with ease and comfort
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To create your body’s own natural relaxant, this will help enhance your pregnancy and birth experience and allow you to experience a calmer and more gentle birth for your baby
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Natural ways to bring your body into labour without artificial chemical induction
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How you and your birthing companion can create a birthing environment that is calm, serene and joyful, rather than tense and stressful
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Gentle birthing techniques that allow you to breathe your baby into the world without the use of hard physical pushing
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To use your natural birthing instincts to birth your baby in a way that most mirrors the way that nature intended
What you will get?
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A copy of the HypnoBirthing Text book written by the founder of the Mongan Method which we will use during the programme and you can use at home.
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5 sessions that will be made up of information, guidance, techniques, and lots of relaxation!
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5 professionally written scripts for your home practice
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A CDs or MP3 for your relaxation called the ‘Rainbow Relaxation’
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Guidance and information sheets for planning your Birth Preferences
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A set of Birth Prompts and supportive materials for your Birth Companion
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Demonstration and practice in optimal birth positions
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Hypnotic sessions in building birth confidence and eliminating fears
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Several deep relaxation techniques for use during pregnancy and birthing
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Well-paced instruction designed to build your confidence and help you to have a safer, easier, and more comfortable birthing
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Special Calm Breathing methods for use throughout labour and during birthing
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One to one basis (or with Birth companion) for personal attention
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Body toning exercises and practice
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The advantage and confidence of the Mongan Method reputation for top-quality birthing preparation
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Some fun and laughter!
How do I book and what is the cost?
Please feel free to call me to discuss any questions you may have, it is often helpful to have an initial chat and then I can send you the registration and booking forms.
The programme costs £350 (There may be additional charges for travel dependent on the distance to your home or preferred venue).
My mobile number is: 07515 665 032
My email is: Alison@cloud9hypnobirthing.co.uk
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you
Alison