Episode 9 -What is HypnoBirthing with Anthea Thomas?

What is HypnoBirthing? What does it teach? Will it prepare me for birth? Will it prepare my partner for birth? Am I “ under hypnosis”? Can I do Hypnobirthing if I am planning intervention or a hospital birth (yes you absolutely can is the answer btw!)? 

When we first become pregnant it can be confusing and over whelming knowing where to even start with birth preparation education. So for this episode we are going to chat all about what HypnoBirthing is and what it offers as well as debunk some of the many myths surrounding this comprehensive childbirth preparation class.

And who better to chat HypnoBirthing with then the Vice President of the HypnoBirthing® International Institute- Anthea Thomas! 

Anthea Thomas

In addition to being the Vice President Internationally for HypnoBirthing, Anthea is also the director and Faculty Trainer of HypnoBirthing International in Australia.

Anthea is a passionate health professional, an experienced Antenatal Educator with over 17 years experience, a public speaker and a Clinical Hypnotherapist supporting families in conception, pregnancy, birthing and parenting as well as a Global Presence Ambassador for Parenting 2.0 and Former Vice President of CAPEA QLD (Childbirth and Parenting Educators of Australia). 

Anthea is working with therapy based on the philosophy that our unconscious minds can heal our bodies, and control the delicate process of conception and birthing. She is focused on helping people find their unlimited potential in all areas of life, and on helping women to rediscover their natural birthing instincts and works  to provide couples with information about their bodies, the birth process, how their mind affects conception and birth helping to empower them to take control of their own journey. 

In this episode we chat about:

• Anthea’s own incredibly heartfelt inspirational story of how she first learnt about HypnoBirthing
• Anthea’s own personal experience with having a VBAC and how HypnoBirthing completely removed her partners and her own fears for that birth.
• We take a deep dive into what this course involves and what makes it such a comprehensive childbirth class
• We discuss the Autonomic Nervous System and the impact it has on birth
• We discuss labour and birth physiology
• We discuss how HypnoBirthing prepares our partners for birth and the postpartum
• We debunk the many myths surrounding hypnobirthing

And so so much more…

I guarantee it will inspire and inform you.

 Books and links mentioned

HypnoBirthing

In Australia

https://hypnobirthing.com.au

Internationally

https://hypnobirthing.com

Marie F. Mongan- HypnoBirthing- The Mongan Method

Lily Nichols- Real Food for Gestational Diabetes and Real Food for Pregnancy

Dr Sarah Buckley – Gentle Birth Gentle Mothering

Dr Oscar Serrallach- The Postnatal Depletion cure

Hang Ou- The First Forty Days

Ina May Gaskin- Guide to Childbirth

For full show notes and links mentioned in this episode head over to:

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Check out Hypnobirthing International over at;

In Australia

https://hypnobirthing.com.au

Internationally

https://hypnobirthing.com

Follow HypnoBirthing International on Instagram at;

https://www.instagram.com/hypnobirthinginternational/

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Please note all information shared on this Podcast by myself or guests is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for medical advice