Reducing levels of pain.

Reducing the need for chemical anaesthesia and analgesia.

Shortening the length of labour, particularly in the first stage.

Increase the ability to cope during medical intervention.*

Change preconceptions and expectations about labour, therefore feeling more in control of the process.

Through the hypnotic phenomenon of ‘time distortion’ being able to reduced the perceived length of contractions.

An increased ability to relax during labour.

* In those cases where medical intervention is necessary, hypnosis is not an alternative.

Why birthinmind?

A lot of hypnotherapeutic intervention around labour is based on pre-prepared scripts and frameworks.

We believe that each client is an individual and therefore standardised approaches can be useful, but of limited value.

Each one-to-one session is tailored to the individual.

Our aim is to create an ability in each woman to prepare mentally for their birth using their own natural (though sometimes untapped) resources.

What our mothers say

"I never really had confidence in myself. So I went through the labour and I had the baby and then after it was over … looking back … wow. Without realising it I was totally prepared for a natural labour. I have to say without too much pain.

“Before it was all … I’ve got to have a contraction, oh no … the only way you can deal with that is to kind of bear down. This was a million miles from that. It was much more peaceful and relaxed. And much less painful.”

Theresa – fourth pregnancy with Rafael


“I’m sure the hypnosis helped with my perception of the pain ... I didn’t really need any pain relief. The pain didn’t really bother me … Both the midwives said that they’d never seen anyone have a natural labour like that over that period of time. One said that normally after five or six hours of that kind of labour, at that strength, someone would be screaming for an epidural, but at no point did I ever feel that I didn’t need to experience the pain because I felt that I was able to cope with it and that it was doing the job it needed to do. It was more of a friend than a foe.

“It didn’t seem like a whole day; it seemed like a period of hours. I didn’t keep looking at the clock.”

Nania – first pregnancy with Arlo


To find out more about our free introductory talks email info@changeinmind.net