HypnoBirthing® - The Mongan Method
Are you excited to be pregnant, but dread the idea of a painful birthing process?
Do you have specific fears or anxieties about giving birth based on your own previous experiences, or hearing stories of other’s birth experiences?
Do you want your birthing partner to know how to best play a supportive and active role in your birthing process, but you don’t really know how to guide them in this?
Or maybe you just want to educate yourself about natural, instinctive birth, feel more connected to the baby growing inside you, and feel as confident, calm and relaxed as you can, going into your birthing process!
About HypnoBirthing
HypnoBirthing, the original Marie Mongan method, is all about empowering you to trust your body and your innate ability to birth your baby, and giving you the knowledge, tools and techniques to do this with confidence, and in a relaxing and comfortable way! It also empowers and educates your birth partner to play an informed, active role in supporting you throughout your birthing process.
This amazing program teaches you, along with your birth partner, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner.
You will learn how to call upon your body’s own natural relaxant, and therefore lessen, or even eliminate, discomfort and the need for medication.
When you are properly prepared for childbirth and when the mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all mothers in nature.
Through self-hypnosis, special breathing and visualization techniques, HypnoBirthing teaches you to release fear and trust your body’s ability to birth instinctively.
Evidence Based Support
Studies have shown, when a woman feels safe, relaxed and supported through childbirth, there is a:
50% reduction in the caesarean rate
25% shorter labor
60% reduction in epidural requests
40% reduction in Pitocin use
30% reduction in analgesia use
40% reduction in forceps delivery
HypnoBirthing Advantages
Teaches you deep levels of relaxation to eliminate the fear that causes tension and pain.
Gives your partner or birthing companion an integral role in the birthing.
Teaches you and your birthing partner how to work alongside your birthing team to achieve the birth you desire.
Shortens the first phase of labor by several hours.
Leaves you feeling alert, fresh and awake with energy during your labor.
Reduces the need for an episiotomy.
Empowers parents with techniques to achieve a gentle, calm birth for themselves and their baby whatever turn their birthing takes.
Embraces the concept of pre-birth parenting.
Teaches you breathing techniques that allow you to breath your baby into the world without the violence of hard, physical pushing.
Empowers you and your partner to approach birth and parenting feeling informed and prepared!
What You Will Learn
Everything you need to know to achieve a safer, easier and more comfortable birth.
The role of your birth partner in supporting and advocating for you and the baby.
What’s gone wrong with labor as we know it, why and how to overcome it.
What the Fear - Tension - Pain syndrome is, and how to avoid it and reduce pain.
Relaxation and self-hypnosis to eliminate fear and tension throughout pregnancy and birth.
Techniques of deep relaxation, massage and visualization during labor.
Special breathing techniques to have a shorter, more comfortable labor.
How your body is naturally designed to conceive, nurture and birth your baby with ease and comfort.
How to greatly reduce the need for drugs and other interventions.
How to create your body’s own natural pain relief.
Natural ways to stimulate labor without chemical induction.
The importance of bonding before and after the birth of your baby.
Gentle birthing techniques that allow you to avoid hard physical pushing and tearing.
A toolbox of techniques that will not only change your birth, but will change your life!
HypnoBirthing Online Class Details
The course includes:
Five classes of 2.5 hours/class, for a total of 12.5 hours, usually taught over the course of 5-7 weeks.
The HypnoBirthing Book by Marie Mongan.
A class workbook filled with helpful and pertinent information.
Several downloadable audios that support what you are learning.
Lots of extras from Laura’s personal collection of info.
The course is designed for pregnant women and their birth partners.
The ideal time to attend the HypnoBirthing® course is between 16-35 weeks pregnant.
Online Group or Private Classes are Available
*Online Classes for late September through November 2021 are forming now!
Group class investment: $449/couple.
This includes all course materials. I schedule group classes ongoingly throughout the year. The class is done completely over Zoom, and I keep the groups small, from 2-5 couples.
I create the classes organically, based on who is interested, where you are in your pregnancy, and what time works best for you. Please click on the orange button below if you are interested in participating in a group class!
Private class investment: $699/couple.
This can be scheduled at your convenience. You will be the only two in the class, and will have my undivided attention.
In addition to the class materials, I will create additional personalized audios and /or other information as needed.
How to Register: I’d like to talk briefly with you before registration. Please click on the button below to schedule your free consult. This way, you can get your questions answered, and and I can make sure the class is a good fit for you and your partner, based on your needs.
On a Personal Note…
I am passionate about teaching this class! I feel strongly that it is so important for you to feel empowered, and to truly believe in yourself, your body, and your ability to birth your baby in a natural, instinctive way - and that you have understanding, knowledge, and confidence to do this!
“My partner and I took the official HypnoBirthing® course with Laura via Zoom in preparation for our birth. We absolutely loved it, and were sad when our 5 sessions were up! Laura was very calm, confident and experienced in sharing her wisdom and knowledge of training the subconscious. She was incredibly engaged and thorough, following up with each of our sessions. Laura definitely cared immensely about us, our success and the work she does! Our labour had some unexpected turns, but the tools she gave us were invaluable…not only for my labour and delivery, but for our lives! We commented many times on how the course, Laura, and the Hypnobirthing philosophy had positive effects on both our relationship and attitude. I would highly recommend the Hypnobirthing course with Laura!”
Private individual sessions for pregnant women available too!
Perhaps, you would prefer to prepare for your birthing experience with 1:1 sessions.
You have some issues you’d like to resolve before your little one arrives, in conjunction with your birth preparation.
Or you’d just prefer to prepare for your birthing process with private sessions that are tailored to your individual needs.
Typically I would recommend a program of 6-8 sessions, depending on where you are in your pregnancy when we begin to work together.
“My wife and I took a hynobirthing class from Laura in preparation for the birth of our first child. I am so glad we did!! I felt the class really prepared us and gave us the tools to have the birth experience we wanted! While there were definitely some unanticipated turns, I felt like I had the tools to support and advocate for my wife. I was able to be present mentally and physically throughout the whole experience and really feel confident in my support throughout the process. I can also say many of the ideas/concepts/tools have helped us in our relationship as a whole as well. Laura did a really nice job of presenting the material, guiding us through it as well as encouraging us to do the necessary homework and daily preparation in advance of the birth.”
““My husband and I were lucky to take Laura’s HypnoBirthing® classes upon recommendation by our chiropractor. I speak for both my other half and me when I say, I am so grateful to Laura for her kindness and excellent care leading up to and during our birth!
I am also so grateful to have been able to practice all of the HypnoBirthing techniques in and out of class as much as I did, as Laura’s teachings were invaluable during a challenging labor; subsequently, I have found them extremely helpful while in recovery as well, during which time I have only taken over the counter Tylenol to manage pain — all the rest is managed with self hypnosis and deep relaxation.
The teachings and techniques have also been great tools during breastfeeding, as well and managing the daily stress of parenting our other child, a toddler!
Finally, the class really did create an opening for my husband to play an active role in the whole process, as well as be a more communicative vessel on my behalf during labor.
Thank you, Laura, for everything. Your encouragement during our sessions made my husband the best advocate he could be during our birth experience, and your compassion and knowledge of hypnotherapy and relaxation techniques have been incredible tools for us on this next chapter of family life. Thank you for helping us to bring our little Ansel Earthside!””