Self-Hypnosis For Easier Childbirth

Lot of awareness and the need to have a safe delivery without pain and complications have made women realize that the best way to go about childbirth is through self hypnosis. As this does not make use of modern day medications and drugs that could bring about an adverse effect on the new born baby.

Some of the modern day medications are not only harmful to the baby but can cause great health problems to the mother too. Drugs like Demerol and Stadol have known to cause respiratory problems and can make the situation worse as it becomes hard for the mother and her baby to get enough supply of oxygen could damage vital organs permanently as these drugs cut off the circulation of oxygen in the blood. Nubain yet another drug causes drowsiness in both the mother and the baby and it takes some time before the effects of the drug wears out.

Epidural is used for the purpose of anesthesia and has been found to cause hypotension leading to a dip in the blood pressure leading to the slow down of the heart rate of the baby. This can lead to a prolonged delivery causing damage to the baby. Cesarean cases may lead to complications during future pregnancies, vacuum extraction leads to hemorrhage and forceps delivery leave marks on the baby’s head.

Taking all these into consideration women nowadays opt for natural childbirth with the help of hypnosis which is a far safer way to deliver a baby without complications.

What is self-hypnosis?

Self-hypnosis is nothing but programming your mind in such a way that you perceive the pain during labor helping you to give birth to your baby in a natural manner without the use of medication and other unnecessary electronic gadgets. which can cause harm to both the mother and child.

Self-hypnosis has shown to reduce labor pains to a large extent. Due to labor pain there is a lot of fear, anxiety and tension in the mothers mind and self-hypnosis has proved to reduce the tension, pain and the pushing of the baby outside allowing the mind to relax along with a more stable and sure mental strength. Due to the relaxed state of body you can push your baby outside the uterus without much force.

Self-hypnosis does not need to use modern day medicines or drugs nor does it require any long procedure nor do they require stitches after the delivery but at the same time it enables you to give birth to your baby without the fear of having harmed your baby with the use of drugs that could cause temporary or sometimes permanent damage.

There are hypno-therapists who conduct self-hypnosis classes teaching you the techniques of self restraint. There are a number of audio and well as video CD’s helping you to learn this art of self-hypnosis. As a mother you get an upper hand in this self-hypnosis as you are in full control over your body and mind.