Hypnobirthing Australia has been featured in The Parenting Biz Podcast.
In this podcast Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner Debra Wakefield from Empowered to Birth in Bendigo, Victoria shared how to have a “Calm Natural Birth and Beyond with Hypnobirthing”.
Here is a Summary of the Podcast and what Debra talked to Podcast Presenter Amber Prosia about.
As a Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner, our number one goal is your safety – just like a midwife’s goal for you and the baby
- 75% of first-time mothers who have an epidural will end up having an instrumental or cesarean birth
- Where we place our focus, is where we’re going
- Hypnobirthing affirmations and language is different than traditional labour (e.g Contraction vs Surge)
- Breathe your baby down instead of ‘pushing’ and holding your breath
Having Your Lights On – one of the most important elements when rowing at dawn or dusk for everyone’s safety
- Your environment is VERY important – make it so it’s NOT stimulating
- Lights dim
- Covering clocks
- Warmth in the room
- Familiar things around you (i.e pillow, wearing your own clothes, photos)
- Affirmation board/cards
- Salt lamps
- Candles (LED candles)
- Your own playlist
- Aromatherapy
- Birth Preference / Birth Plan / Birth Wish
- The Positive Birth Movement – by Milli Hill
- If you fail to plan, you plan to fail
- It’s not the document that’s important, it’s the process of getting to what you want
Familiarize Yourself with Any Pinch Points in Your Local Area – coming around the bend…
- We don’t want adrenaline in our early labour because that’s our fight/flight response
- Acupressure helps remind women to let go and relax
- Surrendering can trigger the endorphin flow (20-40x more powerful than morphine)
Keep away from Ferries – The waves from the ferry can capsize the boat…
- The Hypnobirthing Australia Course – Melissa Spilsted
- The beach analogy of birth
- Surrender to the wave rather than fight against it
- 4th trimester is really important
*Final message from the podcast:
- Birth is the beginning of parenting
- Getting independent birth education is paramount
- You don’t walk up to a bank manager and ask him how to invest your money
- Don’t expect to rock up to the hospital and think their education will teach you everything you need to know
Want to contact the guest?
- Find your local Hypnobirthing Practitioner (plug in your postal code)
- Book time with Debra on her website
- Connect with Debra on Facebook
