Posts Tagged ‘hypnobabies’

• Hypnobirthing mothers are so calm during labor and birth!

  Date: 2011.07.21 | Category: Birth | Response: 5

  Hypnobirthing is, I have to admit, something that I have always been skeptical of. Hypnobirthing and hypnobabies are techniques that are designed to help laboring women cope with the pain of labor through a type of self-hypnosis and positive affirmations during their births. Feeling dubious towards these techniques is probably natural for… well, skeptics like myself, but after watching numerous videos of women using hypnobirth techniques on YouTube, I have to say that I am definitely sold!

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• Natural pain relief techniques during labor

  Date: 2010.08.07 | Category: Birth | Response: 7

  Yesterday, I discussed the many risks of epidural anesthesia, which has become such a wide-spread pain relief method in childbirth that many women think it is their only option. Today, we will take a look at other pain relief techniques during labor. There are many proactive steps a laboring woman can undertake to gain relief from the pain that sometimes comes with contractions. Many of them are simple and common-sense. Here are some things any woman can do to make her labor and birth a more pleasant, and less painful experience. Read the rest of this entry »