Preparing with the HypBirth program will:

• Produce a faster and easier delivery
  
• Minimize pain dramatically during labor and birth
  
• Reduce the need for an episiotomy
  
• Enhance comfort and sleep in your pregnancy
  
• Give you higher levels of energy
  
• Help to reduce or eliminate postpartum depression
  
• Create deeper levels of bonding with your baby
  
• 80% of all clients give birth in less than six hours
  – including first time moms –

In as little as four weeks with HypBirth, you can gain confidence and comfort that your labor will be in control and generally much faster. How can this be?

Practicing daily with the HypBirth program will create the level of relaxation needed to stop the flow of catecholamines, stress hormones that are released during labor. These hormones are designed to signal the body of impending danger by creating an instant "fight-or-flight" response. Catecholamines work very well during stressful situations as when you are truly in danger, but in labor they only hinder the process.

When stopping the flow of catecholamines, the uterus functions at it's highest potential, pulling the long, lengthening muscles of the uterus over your baby's head easily and effortlessly. Catecholamines affect this process by making it difficult for the round, circular muscles of the uterus to relax, causing the long, lengthening muscles to do more work and creating longer harder contractions and a longer harder labor. Another effect of catecholamines is that the blood flow to the major organs of your body (including your uterus) is rerouted to your arms and legs. This provides less energy for your uterus and impedes its work. If you were being attacked, this "fight-or-flight" response is a great asset but during labor there is no attacker. Unfortunately, most women equate normal labor with being attacked, rather than the positive feeling of being empowered and at ease.

Without the presence of catecholamines your body is naturally filled with endorphins, nature's "love drug" and natural pain reliever. When endorphins are released, your muscles are relaxed and there is a feeling of well-being and safety. Catecholamine release is a fear-based response, creating constriction in the muscles that is generally associated with pain. What's most interesting about catecholamines and endorphins is that they don't simultaneously exist. However, they are both always present--one will always be more dominate. The goal therefore is to "turn off" catecholamines and "turn on" endorphins.

Hypbirth is a natural, in-house, self-hypnosis childbirth program. Click here to learn more about hypnobirthing, natural childbirth and self-hypnosis during pregancy and labor. Click here to purchase the 7-volume set on CD-ROM including an hour-and-a-half natural childbirth video.