Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle, Jessica Alba and some Russian stars who used soft hypnosis in the process of childbirth, attracted great attention to this practice. Why is it so good and why more and more women become “hypnomams”?
In the minds of many women, childbirth and pain are closely connected, and get rid of fears in anticipation of this event is not easy. Special techniques of relaxation and visualization help women calm down and positively configure themselves both during pregnancy and during childbirth.
Soft hypnosis (for example, with audio recording of a specialist-hypnologist) and self-hypnosis help to calm the mind so much, relax muscles that childbirth is harmonious and as natural as possible.
Plunging into hypnosis, for a while we are abstracting from reality. The body seems to go silent, heavily, the effect of detachment from it arises. And natural hypnoanesthesia (hypnotic anesthesia) is gradually manifested.
Hypnosis in childbirth was one of the first to use the British obstetrician Grantley Dick Reid in the 30s of the last century and wrote the book “Faced without fear”, it is available in Russian. Later, on research, Dick-Reida founded her technique by the American Hipnologist Mary Mongan (“The Book of Healthy and Safe Rades. Hypnorods – Mongan Method “, all, 2011).
Studies show that the use of hypnosis in childbirth reduces the use of pharmacological anesthesia, reduces the duration of the first stage of childbirth (Kenyon, 2013). And the self -hypnosis course improves the experience of childbirth in women, and also reduces the level of fear (werner a., Uldbjerg n., Zachariae r., Wu C. S., Nohr e. A., Denmark, 2013).
Mongan writes that soft hypnosis does not contradict the ideas of natural childbirth. “Hypnorods are not a loss of control, but a condition in which the environment becomes not so important, because attention is concentrated inside. Sometimes this condition is also called focused relaxation, ”explains Anastasia Ivanova, psychologist, hypnosis specialist and author of the course.
Since 2015, in some Russian maternity hospitals, hypnorod techniques have been practiced, and more and more obstetricians in maternity hospitals are trained in this method.
How everything goes into practice?
In fact, childbirth under hypnosis is only one part of the method. Hypnorods involve thorough preparation during pregnancy, which includes daily affirmations, visualization (for example, their ideal birth), the implementation of the “6-stage calming breathing” technique, listening to audio recordings with https://www.immobilien-karl.de/vhod-v-gama-dostupnye-frispiny-igrovye-avtomaty/ hypnosis, and relaxation and reassurance exercises.
Regularity here is very important, it allows you to bring the respiratory technique to automatism, which in a stressful situation can be useful. You can immerse yourself in hypnosis using various techniques. One of those that Anastasia Ivanova offers in his course is called the technique “6-storey sedative breathing”.
Technique “6-storey sedative breathing”
In order for the concentration to be as effective as possible, it is important to comply with the three conditions: to choose a suitable place and time where you are comfortable, where no one will distract you, turn off the phone;find a convenient pose in which you would like to fall asleep or relax very deeply and tune in.
Hypnomams use this text of self -hypnosis: “I do this exercise in order to prepare the mind and body for soft comfortable childbirth. I want to develop the skill to plunge into a comfortable state of hypnosis in any circumstances. I want my mind to learn to be calm and trusted the course of life. I want my body to be relaxed and malleable in childbirth “.
There are usually a few repetitions of affirmation, and the mind begins to calm down.
First stage
Any breathing technique begins with passive observation of their own breath. Therefore, you sit down or lie down, close your eyes, put one hand on your chest, the second on your stomach and, as it were, from the side, watch the natural rhythm “inhale and exhale”. You can mentally pronounce to yourself “inokhookh” and “sizydooh”, as if synchronizing the rhythm.
Explanation: This method creates the position of an external observer, which helps a lot in childbirth, to release conscious control. It is easier to focus on your own sensations with closed eyes. The surface level of trance is when the external ceases to be so significant for you.
Second phase
After you have come down to your natural breathing rhythm, pay attention to how you inhale: through your nose or through your mouth. For deep relaxation breathing, it is better to breathe through the nose.
Explanation: breathing through the nose improves the nutrition of the brain and contributes to better and deeper relaxation.
The third stage
You are born with your body, you inhale through your nose and pay attention to breathing with your belly, that is, with each breath, your stomach rises.
Explanation: diaphragmatic breathing helps to relax deeper and better fill it with oxygen, so the blocks and clamps are removed in the body. Breathing with the abdomen is natural for us. If you observe children, you will notice that they breathe stomach.
The fourth stage
You are born with your body, you inhale through your nose and breathe with your stomach and help the exhalations be slower and longer. It will be wonderful if the exhalation is twice longer than inhalation. For example, inhale at 3, exhale at 6. Inhale at 4 – exhale at 8. Make a few cycles of such a breath.
Explanation: Having increased the depth of exhalation, we help to stand out to the neurotransmitter Acetylholin, which relaxes the nerves and helps relaxation. Breathing should not be enhanced until pain or tension in the abdomen’s muscles. Your goal is calm and relaxation.
The fifth stage
You are born with your body, you inhale through your nose, breathe with your stomach and help the exhalations be slower and longer. And you just repeat this rhythm to yourself for some time: “Oooh – Vyyyydooooh”. That is, as if mentally pronouncing your breath. If you are one of those people who like to count, then consider to yourself. For example, inhale 1–2–3–4, exhale 1–2–4–4–6–7–8–8. Some prefer to simply say to themselves this rhythm “inhale – exhale”.
Explanation: Deep breath causes a reaction of relaxation, followed by a chain of beneficial changes in the body: slowdown in heart rhythm, blood flow to the limbs and muscle relaxation.
The sixth stage
You are born with your body, you inhale through your nose, breathe with your stomach and help the exhalations be slower and longer. Now think about the feeling that you want to fill up, which would be useful for you now. It can be joy, tenderness, calm, lightness.
Ask a question what you need at this moment, and with each inhale fill yourself with this feeling. Self -hypnosis at this moment: “With every breath, I inhale … (joy/comfort/lightness/tranquility, etc. D.), with each exhalation, I exhale excess, unnecessary “.
For inspiration and exhalation, it is important to choose one thing-what is now preventing you from feeling comfort. The performance of the entire exercise takes 2-3 minutes. This is one of the remarkable practices of soft hypnosis in childbirth, which can be used between the waves of fights.
Avoid false expectations
The authors of the method claim that hypnorods have no contraindications. But whether this method is suitable for all women?
Svetlana Bezrokova, midwife
“It is important to understand why the woman turned to this method. What do you expect from hypnorods? If you want to master another breathing technique, relaxation, another beautiful tool to establish contact with the body and more calmly live contractions and attempts, then the experience of hypnorods will most likely be positive.
But if a woman is very afraid of pain and hopes to get a magic tablet that will completely save her from suffering, she may be disappointed. Hypnorods can relieve pain, but are not able to exclude it.
Когда женщина вдруг в потугах или во время схваток испытывает очень сильные ощущения, у нее возникает шок: как? Why do I feel pain if they told me in the courses that the child will easily and imperceptibly come out of me? I guess I’m some kind of “not like”.
In addition, there are women who are immune to hypnosis, to (in itself) suggestion, and it is likely that this technique will not work on them. There are women who are not able to live pain, dissociating from the body and carrying somewhere in rainbow fantasies. They need to face internal, real sensations in contractions to understand how to interact with them.
So I recommend not to rely on this method as the only possible for myself and master different methods of self -help in childbirth. This will help to avoid frustration and disappointment in itself “.
