For the official UK introduction to HypnoBirthing, please click on this 8 minute You Tube link: UK HypnoBirthing Introduction.
This will be of particular interest to anyone who feels sceptical whenever the word "hypno" is mentioned (Dads, you know who you are!). Media misinformation and stage shows aside, hypnotherapy is in fact the most widely researched field of complementary medicine and there is sufficient scientific evidence to support its use in mind-body medicine to warrant the NHS running an 18 month trial, starting in 2011, into its use in childbirth.
But don't take our word for it! If you would like to see evidence of natural birth using HypnoBirthing techniques, please click on any of the links below.
UK Living, Nancy and baby Sam. Nancy had previously had a bad labour in hospital and decided she would prefer to stay at home for the delivery of her second child. She has a waterbirth, and in this film clip you see her catching her own baby after a really calm natural delivery.
Hypnotherapy can help with: weight loss, quit smoking, IBS, HypnoBirthing ante-natal classes, stress, phobias, unwanted habits, eating disorders, and most mind-related matters - no matter how odd they may seem. Just ask.
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Alison Bird DHP MAPHP(Reg) HBCE is a member of the Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, and affiliated to the National Centre for Eating Disorders, Hypno-Band Weight Loss System, and the HypnoBirthing Institute.