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Baker’s HypnoBirth – A Surrogate Birth
Baby Bakers Birth - A Gift From Anna - Her Surrogacy Journey Anna McKie is one of those rare gifts to the world. A selfless human that had a dream of helping another family (or many families) have the chance to love and raise a child, just like she has been blessed...
The Powerful VBAC of Emilia Hilton
I Did It! My heart was full – my body had created and I had birthed my babe. Naturally. Drug free. Intervention free. I won’t receive any medals, and I don’t want them – I just want to honour my body for the goddess she is! A Healing HypnoBirthing VBAC Lauren and Matt...
Our Magical Hospital Birth During COVID-19
The Dream Birth of Little River - A Hospital Birth in Water During COVID-19 Mila and Ricky attended HypnoBirthing classes in Victoria with HypnoBirthing Educator Meagan Otu to gain skills, confidence and trust for their upcoming birth! Their birth of little River in a...
Birth Centre Birth Turned Surprise Home Birth
“I think Baby will come tonight”. I had told Matt the same thing at dinner the night before. My evening carried on as usual and then I lay in bed, resting but unable to sleep. During surges, I focused on my breathing and visualised my uterus muscles drawing up and my...
Home Water Birth with Posterior Baby
It was not luck that enabled me to have this amazing birth experience, where pain was not a factor. We were faced with some challenges and were able to meet them with calmness and support. My birth preparation and supportive birth team helped me to feel like a goddess throughout my birth experience.
Birth Story: 5cm to 10cm in 15 minutes
A Fast and Positive Birth Story Using the HypnoBirthing Techniques Going into my pregnancy, both my husband and I had ideas of what we wanted for the next 9 months and for our birth. Being my first child I wanted to be prepared and have as much knowledge as possible....
Meeting the Love of our Lives
Our birth story began the night before our due date, with my uterine seal and membranes releasing at 9:30pm. We headed to the hospital assuming we’d be home not long after to progress through labour at our own pace. With car packed, Nath put on the Rainbow Relaxation...
IVF Baby Birth Story
Our fertility journey spanned 4 years, 5 IUIs, 6 IVF cycles and one miscarriage. It was long, emotional and invasive. After all of our efforts we created one frozen embryo which we transferred as a last ditch effort before considering donor options. Amazingly the...
First Time Mum Has Super Fast Induction Birth
Mariella and Jad attended HypnoBirthing Classes in Melbourne, and share their amazing birth story of their fast induction birth. We are so grateful to them for sharing their birth story to help educate and inspire other couples! Jad and I classify my birth to Amelia...
Working With Special Circumstances: Jack’s Birth Part 2
Once in the birthing suite, my obstetrician came to chat and make sure that I was happy with the change in plans. She performed an internal examination (at about 1pm) and made sure that my waters had completely broken. I wanted to walk around for a while before...
Working With Special Circumstances: Jack’s Birth Part 1
Jo Fullerton from Birth From Within shares the story of Jack's Birth. Jack is Jo's second HypnoBirthing baby. “I am prepared to meet whatever turn my birthing may take” (Marie Mongan) The above affirmation was one that I never wanted to use, but I ended up repeating...
The Birth of a Mother and a Baby
That saying is most certainly true, that when a baby is born a mother is born also. No matter how many births and children you have, you are reborn. You are someone new after that, and that other Mum is still there but has changed. This is my positive HypnoBirthing...
HypnoBirthing Practitioner Births First Baby
Jo Fullerton from Birth From Within shares her birth story from 2013 with us. This was Jo's first birth and a beautiful HypnoBirth. It has been almost three years since my life changed for the better. At 3am on Friday 23rd August 2013 our beautiful son Max was born....
Mama Midwife Births First Baby At Home
Welcoming our baby, like many births I had been privileged to be apart of as a midwife, was challenging. At times I felt unsure, anxious and worried, but mostly I was stressed about the circumstances surrounding the Birth, not Birth itself. It all started on a sunny...
HypnoBirthing Baby Number Two Arrives
Julia and Julian welcomed their second son using HypnoBirthing the Mongan Method. You can read about Julia's first birth HERE. What a day!! It was the 17th of June and I was 40+6 weeks and ready to have this little bubba! At around 8am my membranes released but only a...
Positive HypnoBirthing Induction Story
My husband and I welcomed a beautiful baby boy on the 9th of September 2017 named Valentino. We experienced an amazing HypnoBirthing birth at the St Vincent's private hospital. I had an amazingly healthy and pleasant pregnancy never really feeling pregnant as I really...
How the Duchess of Cambridge was able to look so fresh after Royal Baby
Source: The Courier Mail Author: JACKIE SINNERTON, ANNABEL HENNESSY It’s Official! The Duchess of Cambridge Used HypnoBirthing for her Positive Births! There has been much speculation around whether the Royal couple used HypnoBirthing for the birth of their 3...
Bush midwife arrives just in time for unplanned home HypnoBirth!
Baby Whitney Surprised her Parents and Chose to Be Born at Home! Isabelle and Dan are a HypnoBirthing couple from the tiny western country town of Quilpie in QLD. They had all intentions to birth at the local hospital, but their new baby daughter chose to be born in...
Using HypnoBirthing with Special Circumstances
The Empowering Birth of Evelyn Not all Births play out as we expect. In HypnoBirthing we are teaching couples tools and techniques to keep them calm and positive in whatever turn their birthing takes. Although Amy and Ryan ended up needing intervention, the birth of...
5 Hour Stress Free HypnoBirth
Another Positive & Calm HypnoBirth Baby Mylah's gentle birth in Perth, 1st August 2016. “Well we have a beautiful little baby girl - Mylah Bennie. She came into the world on my birthday! Monday at 1.38am the 1st August, weighing in at 3.535kg - 7lb 12oz and...
A Beautiful Unplanned Home HypnoBirthing
Babies Come In Their Own Time! Before I was introduced to Helena I was very nervous about giving birth and being pregnant in general. My friend recommended that I see Helena and do a HypnoBirthing course with her. My husband (who was reluctant at first) and I attended...
Positive HypnoBirthing of Jaxon Howard Emery
A Magical Beginning for Our Beautiful Son Jaxon Prior to becoming pregnant I held a deep fear that I would not be able to handle the pain of natural childbirth. I simultaneously held a deep desire to bring my child into the world in a peaceful and healthful way; the...
Confident First Time Melbourne Mum Births Like A Rockstar
Water Birth of Baby Joseph 16 August 2016 On the 16th of August I woke up at about 6.30am and started to feel these really subtle pulling feelings inside my tummy. I got all excited and started timing them and soon realised they were happening about every 10 minutes...
HypnoBirthing Mama Achieves a VBAC Waterbirth
The Calm HypnoBirthing of Blake Hudson Born at Nambour Hospital on 29 Oct 2016 Samantha came to see practitioner, Carrie Jeff early in her pregnancy to ask if HypnoBirthing could help her achieve a much wanted VBAC. Her and her husband embraced the philosophy and...
HypnoBirthing Midwife Shares Her Empowering Home Birth Story
Inspiring Midwife Uses the HypnoBirthing Techniques for her Home Birth After Only a Few Weeks of Practice! Penita is a dedicated independent midwife from South Australia that has been supporting women in birth for many years. In September 2016 Penita attended the...
Birth of Sasha Rose
We used all the tools we learnt in our HypnoBirthing course! Sasha Rose was born at Buderim Hospital, QLD on 27 sept 2016 We prepared in every way to welcome our little miracle into the world! Rainbow Relaxation, breathing practice and birth affirmations had become...
The Intense, Powerful, Beautiful & Exhausting Water HypnoBirth of Chase
I couldn't be more grateful that I invested time into the 5 week Hypnobirthing course with Carrie at Joymamma! We welcomed our baby boy "Chase Eddie Sutton" into the world 1.44 am 08/09. 7 pound 52 cms! I started to feel really crappy that morning, by the time we...
Q & A with Melbourne HypnoBirthing Couple
"You Can't Be Overprepared for Your Birth, But You Can Be Underprepared" HypnoBirthing Practitioner, Natalie Jones Interviews HypnoBirthing Couple Penne & Tim from Melbourne! What did you find most valuable from the HypnoBirthing International Course? Penne: The...
The Home Birth of Siena Grace
Siena Comes Earthside with Amazing Grace! At 41 weeks pregnant, on the night of my 25th birthday we went to bed early, as we knew that the following day would be our special day! Sure enough, I awoke on the 4th of April feeling crampy and ready! By 9am my surges were...
When Sage Came Down From the Stars!
Home HypnoBirthing of Baby Sage! "I have absolutely no fear, and the strength that gets me through each surge is primal. Instinctive. Like I knew that my baby and my body were working perfectly together". "At one point I look around and it’s beginning to get light...
Proud HypnoBirthing Grandpa’s Letter
This is a Red Letter Day Anna birthed her little boy Ewan at home with her family by her side, supporting her, and welcoming little Ewan to the world. The experience had a profound impact on her father, Ewan's grandad, and he wrote this letter to the family after the...
Empowering Home HypnoBirth of Ewan!
I feel so blessed to have done the HypnoBirthing course which enabled me to have the birth I wanted, but to think that my video could be beneficial to other mums out there is icing on the cake! I wanted to record the birth (partly for myself and my family) but also to...
My HypnoBirth with Ivy Mae
Just as Nature Intended! I woke up Friday morning feeling a little grumpy and over being pregnant. I felt I had a great pregnancy and this was unusual for me. For the past two weeks I had experienced practise-labour on almost a daily basis and was always wondering if...
HypnoBirthing mum talks about how HypnoBirthing taught her to trust her body!
We welcomed both of our beautiful children into the world using the incredibly powerful techniques of HypnoBirthing - The Mongan Method. HypnoBirthing gave us the skills and was able to focus our minds to create beautiful, calm births for our children. So many woman...
Natural Breech HypnoBirth
This is a reminder that Breech Babies are Just a Variation of Normal! "I had my beautiful baby girl at 12:27am on the 1st October 2015! Exactly 1 week early! Mary Willow O'Neill had been breech the whole pregnancy and my obstetrician told me a c section was my only...
My 27 Hour HypnoBirth was More Incredible than I Even Imagined!
Our beautiful princess, Sadie Winslow McDermott, was earth born on 30th January 2016, and the entire experience for me was soul changing .... more incredible than I even imagined! We were prepared, we were supported, we were calm and we were excited. I say 'we'...
Pregnant Couple Reflect on their Birth Preparation with HypnoBirthing
Elizabeth and Harley Talk to Trish Cumming Just Before their 2nd HypnoBirth! Elizabeth contacted me in her first pregnancy, after a referral from our local Chiropractor at nearly 37 weeks. Luckily for us all, Elizabeth was now on maternity leave and as her partner is...
We HypnoBirthed Our Baby Boy Oliver! A Team Effort!
Our Journey through HypnoBirthing - Hear from both Parents Brooke's Journey My husband and I hypnobirthed our first son born in January 2016. I say WE hypnobirthed because it truly was a team effort. With the assistance of our beautiful midwives from My Midwives,...
My VBAC HypnoBirth
An Incredible VBAC Journey with HypnoBirthing First a little background info In 2010 I gave birth to my first child. At 2 weeks overdue I was induced and my labour was horrific. I now almost 100% attribute this to the fact labor was artificially induced and unable to...
HypnoBirthing Helped us Work as a Team During Birth
“We feel we had an amazing birth experience" "We attribute much of this to the HypnoBirthing course we undertook with you!" This Western Australian couple sent in this letter of thanks, and shared the empowering story of their daughters birth. My first “waves” started...
Sherie’s calm HypnoBirthing birth
I truly loved my second HypnoBirthing birth and was pleasantly surprised at how everything fell into place even easier this time. First time around we did HypnoBirthing to get more informed and prepared for our first baby, and it set the foundations for positive...
The Proud Moments of A HypnoBirthing Mum as She Stays True to Her Beliefs
Renee and James Chose a Holistic Approach to Pregnancy & Birth Before I fell pregnant, I was in the process of changing my diet. I had started by eliminating dairy then gluten and was feeling pretty good. I was generally eating pretty healthy, but would have a...
HypnoBirthing Father Shares His Transformational Experience
Many fathers approach the birth and parenthood feeling totally unprepared, and in many cases, a little lost. HypnoBirthing has been developed to prepare a couple, not just the mother. The program not only teaches birthing companions how to support the birthing mother,...
Surprise Unassisted HypnoBirthing HomeBirth
Sometimes nature has other plans! Practitioner Carla Morgan shares with us her spiritual & empowering birth journey. I kept telling my husband not to call our midwife, not yet, thinking I might be a long way off… But I was already in the zone and was actually very...
Powerful Personal Birth Story from a HypnoBirthing Practitioner
Water Birth of Kingsley James at Toowoomba Birth Centre- 26 May 2015 Alecia Staines shares her birth story of her little boy in water at the Birth Centre in Toowoomba. Alecia is a HypnoBirthing® - The Mongan Method Practitioner in Toowoomba. This little man arrived...
HypnoBirthing Baby Yi Yang’s Birth Video
HypnoBirthing® Malaysia Shares a Touching Video HypnoBirthing® - the Mongan Method is an International Program and we have women all over the world using the same techniques and preparation for their births. Birth doesn't have borders, the body functions the same,...
Calm HypnoBirthing Mumma Achieves a 100% Natural Birth
Birth of Edison - March 2015 Written by HypnoBirthing® Practitioner & Doula - Helena Hentz My warmest congratulations to J & K on birth of their precious son Edison. J & K were attending my HypnoBirthing® classes and at their 39 week asked me if I would...
HypnoBirthing Practitioners Surprise Birth at Home
Melbourne Practitioner, Natalie Jones shares the birth story of her second baby On Wednesday 18th June 2014 we welcomed our second son into the world ... he unexpectedly arrived in our bedroom! As I look back on our son’s Birth Day I never want to forget the...
Gentle Home Water Birth of Angus
HypnoBirthing® Practitioner - Ellie Robison Shares her Birthing Day with Us! Angus’s Home Birth – 23.10.14 @ 2:16 am– 8.1pounds When I was in my first trimester with my second son Angus, I met a couple through my HypnoBirthing® practice that was home birthing when...
HypnoBirthing® Mum Achieves a Natural Birth Against All Odds
Georgia's Dreambirth - August 2014 What an incredible story behind these pictures......This beautiful HypnoBirthing® Mongan Method mummy who planned a peaceful homebirth for her little baby, had to cancel her plans at 29 weeks due to placenta previa. She had to...
HypnoBirthing® Mum has a dream home birth after previous caesarean
Jai's Dreambirth in Perth - 20 October 2014 This little cheeky man had his own plans and surprised us with his calm gentle speedy entrance into this world, at his parent's bedroom. Mummy S wrote: "He's here! And like a pro, he entered the world in grand style, later...
