To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I knew I wanted to do something with hypnobirthing but some of the stuff out there, you can't share bad birthing stories and you van say certain words like contraction, really threw me off.

Early on there were wonderful birth stories, of people whose experience of birth was so much better than their expectation. This meant that rather than going into birth with a deep-seated belief that they had all the resources they needed within them, they were worried that the hypnosis wouldn’t work. It can be taught over 1 day, but practitioners usually run sessions of 3×2 hours online (currently early 2022). If we engage with them fully, however vulnerable we feel and however challenging they are, it somehow frees us to enjoy our lives more fully. My midwives tried aromatherapy in the room and I focused on the breathing techniques that I had learnt, with the help of some gas and air.I would recommend this book to all the moms, who want to experience birth in a positive and relaxed atmosphere and are interested in exploring the power of our mind. I feel it would have certainly helped in the later stages if I had read this and applied the techniques. Sophie Fletcher's book was great for learning how to instantly relax, and how to manage the sensations of the birthing process in that relaxed state. I thought it might have something to do with staying calm, having a nice environment, being allowed to choose my birthing position and focusing my thoughts on to my favorite beach rather than on the gas masks hanging on the wall but I wasn't sure.

There is immense pressure to induce and understanding why this is and how to stay as close to your birth preferences as possible can be the key to a positive birth. In Mindful Hypnobirthing you use a lot of short, simple and easy to learn conditioning tools, so that your soothing system is activated unconsciously without thoughts getting in the way.

Preparation using conditioning works well with hypnosis, as it means little and often works brilliantly and easy to fit in, even if you have a busy lifestyle. Using a powerful combination of mindfulness, hypnosis and relaxation techniques, this book shows you how to: use your mind and body together to stay focused and in control; draw on visualisation and breathing techniques to help birth progress; feel positive and empowered, before, during and after you give birth. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Hypnosis tools are extremely effective at reducing pain, and increasing confidence and emotional well-being.