Danielle Aitken Counselling & Hypnotherapy

1. When a woman was calm, centred and relaxed the process of labour and delivery became a beautiful and memorable experience, for the woman , her attending family and the Midwife. It is my firm belief that all women have a natural ability to achieve this state, and many do it with no training what so ever. In fact in many cultures around the world the birthing process is expected to be free of discomfort.
2. The second group of women presented generally in a state of tension or heightened anxiety, often afraid of the unknown. Generally these deliveries’ had the potential to be far more difficult, longer and many developed complications such as a longer first stage and the need for epidural and / or assisted delivery.

Obviously there were exceptions to this, but after many years’ experience and retrospective review, I found this was often the case.

Hypnotherapy is the safest and most natural form of therapy known to man.

By utilizing Hypnosis before , during and even after labour, the process known as “Hypnobirthing” provides, through conditioning, the potential for a women to access her body’s own powerful ability to achieve natural analgesia and in some cases anaesthesia, effectively reducing the need for chemical pain killers in labour.

Uncomplicated child birth is a natural process, and by utilising hypnosis, the mother to be can achieve a strong sense of autonomy and control over her labour.

Using hypnosis during labour a woman is able to remain relaxed and calm, and in doing so eliminate the fear response, thus reducing muscular tension and reducing the length of the first stage of labour significantly. This has been shown by practitioners such as Dave Elman, who is well known for his work in teaching and instructing Obstetricians in the art and benefits of hypnosis during labour, as far back as the 1960’s.

Benefits of Hypnosis during labour include,

• Conservation of energy during stage one, effectively enabling the woman to focus her energy and strength in the second stage of labour when it is needed to deliver the baby.
• Shortening of the overall length of labour.
• Reducing the need for chemical analgesia or anaesthesia
• Providing women and their companions with a positive antenatal, natal and post natal experience.
• Empowering women to make effective choices which will direct and effect their birthing experience.
• Utilization through hypnotherapy of positive visualization techniques, enabling the woman to get in touch with her body, promoting bonding, both before and after birth.

Danielle now includes BWRT in her successful Hypnosis And Natural Childbirth Program to produce even better results.
BWRT is an innovative therapy that has rapid results. It is science based and works to change or redirect neural pathways that are responsible for our problem habit patterns.