Hypnobirthing - Your Labour Companion can be used during labour to help keep you calm, focused, relaxed and breathing effectively. Includes Relaxing Birth Music - the same background music of the Natal Hypnotherapy Hypnobirthing range!To get the maximum benefit from this album, you should learn the techniques from the Natal Hypnotherapy birth preparation albums and book during the last trimester of your pregnancy. This album can then be used to reinforce the techniques during the birth. The album contains both the relaxing birth music and three distinct hypnosis tracks which can be listened to at different stages of labour and these have been designed to reflect the emotional stages you are likely to go through. The reduce adrenaline track is particularly useful if you are disturbed during the later stages of labour.Track 1 - Excitement phase Track 2 - Serious phase Track 3 - Reduce adrenaline Track 4 - Relaxing Birth MusicThe calming voice of Maggie Howell with the background relaxing birth music will reassure you and remind you of all the relaxation, visualisation and breathing techniques you have learnt during your pregnancy.When to listen to Hypnobirthing - Your Labour CompanionMums can benefit by listening throughout the labour or select the appropriate tracks to assist them at particular times during labour. Benefits of listening to Hypnobirthing - Your Labour Companion;* Triggers the deep state of relaxation in birth you practiced during your pregnancy while listening to the Natal Hypnotherapy birth preparation tacks.* Enables you to inwardly focus more easily and visualise the positive images you practiced during your birth preparation* Maintains a sense of calm in your birthing environment* Helps you let go and allows your body to get on with birthing your baby.

About the Author

Maggie didnt set out to become a birth expert - in fact, shes an unlikely convert. She was a busy international sales executive who only reluctantly attended a self hypnosis course to help her with her first birth. But she was blown away by the minds ability to control the bodys response to pain and 3 months later, she had a peaceful, manageable birth at home without so much as a paracetamol - to the surprise of her and her NHS midwife who said: Maggie appeared to be sleeping during most of her contractions, breathing slightly more deeply as they peaked. She used no pharmacological methods of pain relief and conducted her labour and delivery entirely under self-hypnosis. She appeared to experience no pain and very little discomfort. It was the turning point in her life. Inspired by her experiences, she trained to become a clinical hypnotherapist and left her job to pursue her new life goal: to teach other women the techniques which help them have a positive birth. The result was Natal Hypnotherapy(t), the UKs leading provider of hypnosis for childbirth. The philosophy is simple: to help women have a better birth. Maggies work is revolutionising womens birth experiences by teaching them to overcome fear and work with their bodies during birth. Maggie says: In our society, fear has become the overriding emotion pregnant women feel about childbirth - something fuelled by TV depictions and horror stories other mums love to tell. We have not been brought up to see birth as a positive thing, so weve lost confidence in our own ability to give birth naturally and so go into it fearful and anxious - feelings which cause much of the pain and complications in birth. The facts speak for themselves: Natal Hypnotherapy(t) users have an average caesarean rate up to half the national average and are recommended by 97% of users. Medical research has repeatedly found that hypnosis reduces surgical intervention, use of pain medication, mums pain perception, and labour times. Maggie says: This could revolutionise the way women give birth. If we could give every pregnant woman in the UK a Natal Hypnotherapy(t) CD to listen to we could save the NHS a fortune and change birthing culture! It may not be on prescription yet, but Maggies work is already changing the birthing world. Thanks to Maggie, effective birth preparation is no longer only available for those with the luxury of money and time. Her range of self-hypnosis CDs for pregnancy and birth, and new book effective birth preparation - your practical guide to a better birth are accessible for everyone, and designed to fit into a hectic life. From terrified teenage mums to women planning their sixth home birth, the techniques have helped women from all walks of life have a more positive birth. Today, Maggie has personally trained over 500 midwives, has a network of practitioners who teach the techniques in comprehensive workshops all over the country, regularly appears as a birth expert across the media, and has used the techniques for the births of each of her five sons plus helping in excess of 100,000 women have a better pregnancy and birth experience!