277: Hypnobirthing Confessions: These Women Tried it - Here is the Truth!
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Hypnobirthing? What’s that? Basically, it is a natural birthing technique without any medication, that uses self-hypnosis techniques to combat fear and pain during labor. The result: you’re not screaming in agony (like the typical birthing scene in films!), you’re not linked up to all those bleeping machines in a brightly lit room with doctors and nurses running around you, and you’re not pumped full of painkiller meds. Instead, birthing becomes a connective, intensely powerful female experience.
That’s why more and more women are opting out of the traditional hospital birth, and going for natural hypnobirthing instead. Like today’s co-host Laura Petersen (which you know from some of our previous episodes). Laura is a best-selling author and self-publishing coach, and she’s expecting her first child. She’s opted for a natural hospital birth using the Mongan Method.
Melissa Tucker, podcast host and marketing expert, has one of the most intriguing birth stories we’ve ever heard. After having two children the traditional, hospitalized, way, she was inspired to go natural. For her third child, she chose home hypnobirthing. Without epidurals, without drugs, and without doctors, she used self-hypnosis to keep herself calm, focused and centered. The experience was so magical, she wanted to do it all over again.
Katherine Maslen is a clinical naturopath, nutritionist, author, and host of the Shift podcast. And she too has an amazing natural birth story. But you’ll have to listen to the episode for the details!
Here are the best resources if you want to research alternatives to hospital childbirth:
- Watch the Business of Being Born documentary
- The Birth Education Centre in San Diego
- Hypnobabies
- The Mongan Method
- www.evidencebasedbirth.com
- Research your doctor and your hospital (some have higher rates of c-sections than others)
- Listen to Katherine’s podcast The Shift.
You can connect with Melissa via her website www.MelissaSueTucker.com. You can connect with Laura via Instagram @LaptopLaura or her website www.copythatpops.com. And you can connect with Katherine via her website https://www.theshiftclinic.com/ or https://katherinemaslen.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Food Heels podcast, episode 277. |
| 0:06.2 | Birth can also be a beautiful experience. And your mindset around how it's going to work out is a really important part of that. |
| 0:13.5 | I can just stay calm and relax and trust that my body was designed to give birth and my baby was designed to be birthed to just let it |
| 0:22.2 | happen as naturally as I can. Being in the water takes away a lot of the pressure and it's just so |
| 0:28.5 | much easier on your muscles than being out of the water. So I highly, highly recommend it. |
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| 1:04.9 | immediately. All right, welcome, Food Heals Nation. Thanks for joining us. I'm Alison Melody. And today's topic is a fun one. It is |
| 1:12.1 | hypno birthing. We are talking to two ladies who have done it and loved it and one who is about to go |
| 1:18.7 | through the hypno birthing process because she's literally about to pop. So what is hypno birthing? |
| 1:25.2 | Hypno birthing is a way of giving birth naturally without pain |
| 1:27.9 | medication that teaches self-hypnosis techniques to combat fear and pain during labor. So this |
| 1:34.4 | involves doing visualization, relaxation, deep breathing techniques, and really what fascinates |
| 1:40.5 | me about it the most is the amount of women having pain-free pregnancies and deliveries |
| 1:45.3 | using this method. So, of course, I just had to learn more. So first up, I'm talking to Catherine |
| 1:50.9 | Maslin. She is a mother, a clinical naturopath, a nutritionist, an author, a speaker, and host of |
| 1:57.1 | the Shift podcast. Go check that out. Then I'll be chatting with Melissa Tucker and Laura Peterson. |
| 2:03.0 | Melissa is a marketing expert by day whose last pregnancy was so magical that it made her want to give |
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