I used Hypnobabies, which is a home study course I ordered online. I tried a calmbirthing course as well but shouldnt have. We didnt go back to the 2nd day. I enjoyed hypnobabies more. DS1 was a drug free vaginal breech birth (until 3rd stage). Ds2 was an induction with only gas on low for the last hour or so, but we had other issues there, obviously. I didnt finish the course before DS1 was born and it was still helpful.
I loved learning the techniques during pregnancy. It helped me bond with baby and manage my anxiety.
In addition, we also had an IM, which made a huge difference to our birth experiences.
The birth of ds was the most unbelievable experience of my life. We did hypnobirthing by reading the book and I practised the breathing every day. my birth story is in my signature.
Sparkles, you're pregnant!!!!! YAY!!! The book I purchased was Hypnobirthing The Mongan Method by Marie F. Mongan. I just had a look back to my original post and I didn't really say that much about the book itself (I must have been in a hurry)! There is lots of info about how we are made for birthing and that kind of empowering stuff and then there's the breathing to practice and lots of visualisations of which you can pick and choose which ones fit best with you. There is also a rainbow relaxation which they speak about. Now that was AMAZING because my dh is a certified NLP practitioner so we took what they spoke about and he made our own rainbow relaxation which he spoke and recorded as a meditation and then put the recommend music to it (which they mention in the book). We fully juiced up the wording and included things that also radiated with the colours energy when that colour can up. The rainbow relaxation is basically visualising each colour washing over you. I imagine that each colour is healing whatever needs to be healed from that colours vibration as that time. If you are interested in what each colour is about you can google colour healing. I didn't really do any of the other visualisations in teh book as I made up my own 'fairy' one LOL. Oh and how ironic that I'd be talking about the rainbow relaxation because I LOVE rainbows and just happens to be what it says under my user name at the moment Good luck with everything hon xx
OMG how looney am I.... it doesn't say that under my user name, I changed it yesterday! hahahaha and I'm not even pregnant
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Good luck with everything hon xx
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