Hypnobirthing

[transfattyacid]

Does anyone here have experience with hypnobirthing? I have a little over a month left until my due date and just started to look into it. Is there enough time for me to train myself to use this method? Any stories?

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[violetnancyboy]

I don't know about hypnobirthing but I used my own meditations when I gave birth to my daughter. They worked extremely well and i ended up having no pain relief. I just imagined pushing the pain away and calm, tranquil images every time I had a contraction and sometimes, if it was really bad I would talk to myself and reassure myself that everything was progressing the way it should. I don't think it's too late for you to start.

[snuck]

Never too late if you really want it. Well probably too late if you are already in labour or just a day out from it and haven't started working on it. But a month or more could be plenty of time.

I took techniques from it (I read the book/CD) in my labour and only use NO2 and between the two it worked really well.

I wound up with an emergency c-section, but my placenta was partially blocking my cervix and a c-section was always very highly likely for me.

[scribblescrawl]

I did Hypnobabies and it worked amazingly well for me. It's probably too late to do the full course (It's a 5-week self study), unless you condensed it a bit, but it never hurts to practice relaxing and visualizations that will help you cope. I'm not familiar with exactly how hypnobirthing is different, but I'm a bit believer in the general concept of self-hypnosis for child birth. Whatever you can do will help you be prepared!

[allisonjayne]

I did hypnobirthing (took a course and read the book by Marie Mongan, and the course came with tracks for you to listen to before and during labour, which I did). I found it extremely useful. I went all the way to pushing (for 6.5 hours) with no pain relief. I ended up getting the epidural because they thought I'd need a C (daughter's head was stuck sideways or something) but ended up with forceps. But I never felt like I *needed* pain relief, even after 24+ hours of labour that was following 2-3 days early labour. I felt like labour didn't get hard until I was 6 or 7 cm dilated when I started puking. Before that it was pretty manageable. And even after that...it wasn't that bad, I was just tired from puking.

We/I didn't practice as much as we should have, but I did listen to the tracks on the ipod every night before going to bed and as soon as my wife put them on during labour I started napping in between contractions.

[survivinglove]

I used hypnobirthing. You could start now if you dedicated yourself which isn't a bad idea anyway being closer to your due date and being more immersed in a birthing technique.

B/c of my doula and my hypnobirthing training..I went for 24 hours (from water breaking and 4cm dilated..longer if you count the time before my water broke)...without any pain meds or interventions (aside from antibiotics every 4 hours).

So I would say..yes..its great:)