Take 2 Scottish Midwives.... In January 2012 midwives Donna Burns and Alison Fyfe won the Royal College of Midwives Award for Promoting Normal Birth by using HypnoBirthing, The Mongan Method to help women achieve a calm, natural birth. Since July 2009 Ayrshire and Arran NHS Trust have audited the referral of women by medical staff to the HypnoBirthing ...
Category Archives: HypnoBirthing
Diary of a free range pregnancy: Birth
My Uber parenting day Got up, had irregular twinges through morning, had friend for brunch, put toddler down for nap, told friends coming to tea to come, continued twinging lying on the sofa, farmed toddler out to neighbours for tea, told friends coming for tea not to come, birthed baby, champagne and sausages for supper, in ...
How reliable is ultrasound in detecing big babies?
Being told you have a big baby is a serious concern for many women. It often sets in motion a stream of suggestions that mother and baby are monitored and restrictions are put on options around birth, invariably that the mother has to be in a hospital if not on an operating table. American ...
Introduction to HypnoBirthing: Short film by Maternal Link
I have made a short film to introduce HypnoBirthing explaining why it is necessary and what it can achieve. It includes amazing footage of calm births and explanations of how HypnoBirthing came into being.
One Born Every Minute: The complication of Obesity
The RCOG now describes obesity as the most common complication and risk factor in obstetric practice. Carole shows all the fears and lack of preparation expected from watching the other women ‘cared for’ by this hospital.
Book Review: Childbirth Without Fear by Grantly Dick-Read
Guest blogger Sarah Buchanan, a HypnoBirthing Practitioner in Wales writes about the ground breaking book by Grantly Dick-Read.
Women should not feel guilty for having a caesarean-section
Kirsty Allsopp confesses to the upset she has caused by publicly saying that she has had two caesarean-sections and does not think that women should feel guilty
HypnoBirthing in the press
British RCT on HypnoBirthing A randomised control trial (RCT), the gold standard of medical trials has got underway in Lancashire and is attracting press attention because it is assessing the effectiveness of HypnoBirthing. Written up recently in leading newspapers (Daily Mail, Mail Online and The Sunday Times) it appears to attract mixed feelings. The ...
Birth Nature’s way: how other mammals do it
People often talk of how easily other mammals give birth and wander why humans are different. Ever wandered how an elephant does it? Take a look at this! Although in an elephant safari on concrete, the elephant is calm showing no signs of distress and nature takes its course. Perfectly. The role of HypnoBirthing (for humans!) ...
One Born Every Minute: Violence and fear all in a day’s work
He ain’t stopped cryin’ After a forceps delivery (fairly normal following an induction which often leads to a ‘cascade of intervention’ where one intervention leads to the next and the next) Julia’s baby cried and cried. As Dean succinctly put it “He ain’t stopped cryin’”. Such deliveries are often distressing for the baby who is ...