Diane Gardner                  
  HypnoBirthing® and calmbirth® 
                            Practitioner
                                  Melbourne, Victoria Australia

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       The HypnoBirthing® Concept:

HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy as it is a natural childbirth technique. The concept of HypnoBirthing® is not new, but rather recaptured in the work of Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, an English obstetrician and father of natural childbirth, who first forwarded the concept of natural birthing in the 1920’s.

The HypnoBirthing® natural childbirth method teaches you that in the absence of fear and tension (Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome), severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labour. Grantly Dick-Read, discovered that when labouring mothers were free of fear, their bodies relaxed; the muscles of their cervix relaxed; and something wonderful happened that permitted an easier natural birth.

You will gain an understanding of how the Birthing muscles work in perfect harmony
– as they were designed to do – when your body is sufficiently relaxed.

When you have your baby with HypnoBirthing® you will not be asleep. What you will experience is similar to the daydreaming or focusing that occurs when you are engrossed in a book or a movie or staring into a fire.

You will be conversant and in good spirits- totally relaxed, but fully in control. Awake
throughout, you will be aware of your body’s surges; but because you will have trained
yourself to reach complete relaxation, you will be able to determine the degree to which you will feel the surges. In this calm state your body’s natural anesthesia, endorphins, replaces the stress hormones that constrict and cause pain.