Protecting Your Perineum For Birth With Perineal Massage This is a pretty hot topic for most women approaching their birthing day. We are all aiming to experience birth without trauma to this area, but there are some great recommendations to assist you to prepare your...
Expressing Liquid Gold While You're Pregnant Colostrum is often referred to as “liquid gold” due to its exceptional healing properties and its deep yellow colour. It’s full of antibodies, proteins, white blood cells, vitamins and minerals, which set up your baby’s...
We Want to Share a Secret Pregnancy List with you! The Only One You'll Need! As mothers-to-be we are bombarded by lists in pregnancy. Hospital appointments What you can’t eat Exercise you should be doing Supplements you need to take What to buy for the baby Names for...
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...
Your Birthing Environment Should Be Private, Safe and Unobserved When it comes to the labouring woman and what she needs in her birthing environment, there are three little words that pop up time and time again. Private Safe Unobserved Why do we want mum to feel these...
“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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
When you discover you are pregnant, choosing a place to birth your baby and your care provider is a top priority. Here at HypnoBirthing International, we love to see Australian parents getting the very best care, and we love the care and outcomes our parents are...
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...
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...
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....
Not Everyone is Looking for the Same Care Your ideal plan for pregnancy and birth, may not be the 'stock standard' care that is offered to most women. Is that okay? Are you able to request care that is 'outside the norm'? Of course, but many couples are not aware that...
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...
Doulas aren’t just for mums and babies – they’re for dads and partners, too! Darren Mattock from 'Becoming Dad' shares his insight into a Dad's perspective on hiring a doula. Let’s talk just dads in this post and make it all about dads, as that’s my area of experience...
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...
Affirmations not only influence our mindset, but can have a profound impact on our pregnancy and birth outcome. To realise just how important affirmations are in pregnancy, and how it can influence our mindset, it is important to realise that affirmations are, “…every...
Movement and positions like those taught in yoga have been passed down for centuries to help women prepare for birth. Many women are now using Yoga in conjunction with HypnoBirthing to strengthen their bodies and increase their physical and mental stamina. The...
I Understood What My Role Was! I have to admit I was sceptical about attending HypnoBirthing classes. My wife had told me it’s what she wanted to do and it didn’t seem like I had a choice. We were already going to four hospital classes so it seemed like overkill to...
As a male I would like to think that I have everything under control most of the time. At first I was a bit sceptical about the benefits of HypnoBirthing, however having completed the course and having seen the outcomes during labour I can't speak highly enough of the...
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...
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...
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...
Find a care provider who is “best fit” for you. When we are planning for our big day, we spend hours trawling through the latest glossy wedding magazines, eagerly dog-earing the pages, enthusiastically circling, ripping out bits and pieces to collate together and form...
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...
Bonding has Life Long Benefits Bonding during the prenatal period between mother, father with their unborn baby has life long benefits. The quality of that bond influences the baby’s future physical growth and the mental and emotional development for the rest of it’s...
Too many mothers are being led to believe that their babies are ‘big’, and may need intervention or c-section early to ensure that their baby is safe. Let’s look at the facts, and put mums at ease once and for all! Whilst predictions can be made, and it can be assumed...
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...
Choosing the 'best fit' care provider for your pregnancy and birth will be the most important decision you make to work toward reaching your goal of a positive and safe birth. Don't settle for just anybody. Shop around, and make sure that who you choose is supportive...
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...
“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...
What is Vitamin K? Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin that forms an essential part of our blood’s ability to clot. A newborn baby has very little Vitamin K, as the vitamin does not cross the placenta, and a baby’s gut bacteria (gained during the birth) has yet to...
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...
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,...
Celebrating 25 Years of Beautiful Birthing! HypnoBirthing Institute Marks 25th Anniversary with launch of World HypnoBirthing Day World HypnoBirthing Day will now be celebrated each year, and HypnoBirthing Practitioners across the globe plan a calendar of many...
Approaching our due date for our HypnoBirthing birth, I had been feeling the subtle tightening of pre labour surges on and off, they would come for two hours then disappear. Each time I wondered if it would kick into the real deal. Then on Sunday the 15th of July not...
Thank you Marilyn for being such a positive and inspiring part of our birth journey for Coco. I had a good birth with my first daughter 7 years ago, but it did seem a long time ago... I was gifted the HypnoBirthing book whilst pregnant this time and after reading it...
I am very happy to let you know that Brad and I welcomed William James into the world at 5.30am on Sunday 4 December! I started getting irregular and fairly mild surges on Saturday morning but by midnight on Saturday they were very intense so we decided to head to the...
Thank you for your care and attention during our HypnoBirthing classes. I have always known I wanted a natural, drug free birth but my husband was more from the pro-drug school of thought. When I made the decision to do the HypnoBirthing classes, he was sceptical...
This is a very belated birth announcement, but five days after leaving the HypnoBirthing Practitioner course in Perth I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy Gabriel Henry James, just shy of 10lbs. The birth was my most challenging and went on for the better part of...
Just a quick note to let you know I had a beautiful baby girl on July 21... Lulu was a very healthy 9 pound 4. I had an amazing birth, it was very quick with my membrane releasing before I was in labor. Unfortunately there was some meconium so we had to go straight...
I waned to thank you so much for the two HypnoBirthing courses that i did with you in Perth last year it was an amazing experience and so glad i did both. I had a beautiful (4Kg) baby girl on the 8th Feb named Lotte and had the most amazing HypnoBirthing water birth...
Following news that Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton used HypnoBirthing for her natural birth and hypnosis early in her pregnancy for morning sickness, a new wave of women are becoming interested in this natural approach to childbirth. The use of hypnosis for birth...
HypnoBirthing International (The Mongan Method) is the Gold Standard of HypnoBirthing Globally. We are the original and official HypnoBirthing Program here in Australia & the program chosen by the Royals! The Gold Seal signifies both credibility and professionalism of our Educators Internationally with accreditation from the HypnoBirthing Institute. This emblem is only given to those educators who have pushed themselves successfully to complete the extensive HypnoBirthing Certification and training. We have over 30 years of proven results and many, many successful, positive birth stories.