Hypnobirthing tought in UK Hospitals

Hypnobirthing, a technique to help mums have easy, drug-free births through hypnosis, is coming to three north Essex hospitals.

It is thought Colchester Hospital Trust will be only the second in the UK to offer classes on the practice.

Starting later this spring at Colchester Hospital, as well as at Clacton and Harwich hospitals, they will be given by midwives specially trained to be hypnobirthing practitioners.

Teri Gavin-Jones, one of the three who have just completed their training, said: “Hypnobirthing is going to make a remarkable difference to women and their experience of labour, whatever type of birth they have.

“If you’re going to run a marathon, you prepare for it mentally and physically, and hypnobirthing is a way to help couples prepare mentally and physically for labour and childbirth.

“Pregnancy is not an illness, but labour and childbirth have in many ways become over-medicalised and I firmly believe that hypnobirthing will help to redress the balance.

“I am confident it will in the future benefit thousands of women and their partners and, as a forward-thinking trust, we are keen to embrace it.”

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