CONCEPTION TO BIRTH HYPNOTHERAPY

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      My name is Susan Ghent and I'm a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, as well as, a Certified Hypnobabies Childbirth Instructor.  But first and foremost, I am a mother and grandmother who wants to help women realize their dreams of becoming mothers and birthing their babies with gentleness, calmness, love and joy with little or no pain and/or drugs.

     My practice is dedicated to all aspects of childbirth because I am passionalte about mothers and babies; passionate about mothers experiencing birth in a gentle, relaxed, stress-free environment and welcoming their babies with calmness, love and joy.  Making birth what it used to be...an awesome, natural and miraculous celebration of life instead of the fear provoking event many women experience.

     I am committed to educating women on the nature of conception and birth and to helping them overcome a lifetime of negative programming and fear.  Through education about the mind/body connection and hypnosis, I am able to help women relax and release the fear and tension they are holding that prevents them from conceiving, carrying their baby to term and/or birthing their baby with calmness, love and joy with little or no pain and/or drugs.

      I'm so committed to educating women on conception and birth because I was not one of the fortunate mothers who knew of, nor was told about the way birth should be, and because of this, my births were exactly what I thought they'd be...long, and painful.  But, I have since learned about the mind/body connection and how what we think and expect to happen, is exactly what will happen.  I have learned that childbirth doesn't have to be painful and it is not a medical problem to be managed or interfered with...It is a natural function of life and our bodies know exactly how to birth our babies.

     When our mind is relaxed and open to positive outcomes and expectations, then our bodies are relaxed and function the way nature intended.  When we are fearful, tense, and negative then our body experiences pain in childbirth because our uterine muscles cannot perform optimally and harmoniously due to decreased blood flow caused by the fear and tension we hold in our mind and body.

     This fear, tension, pain syndrome is commonly known as "fight/flight" and protects us when we are in immediate danger by preparing our body to fight or run away.  However, our mind does not know the difference between real or imagined (worry, negative thoughts, ideas & beliefs) danger and reacts accordingly.  Through hypnosis these long held negative thoughts, ideas, and beliefs can be changed, resulting in a positive outlook and a natural, pain free or virtually pain free, drugless birth.

     Today, there are still cultures that view childbirth as a "celebration of life" and where the women give birth naturally and without pain because they do not expect anything else, and their daughters grow up looking forward to childbirth with excitement and joy!

     It is a proven fact that our bodies know exactly what to do.  When the time is right, the body of a comatose woman will birth her baby easily and naturally...her uterine muscles know exactly how to perform whether she is conscious or not and since she is relaxed and her uterine muscles are receiving the appropriate blood flow they work harmoniously and her baby enters the world without pain, drugs, or high drama.

     So, how is hypnosis effective in conception?  Again, it is the mind/body connection that is so important.  Fear, tension and negative expectations--conscious or subconscious--play a significant role in female and/or male fertility especially when there is no medical reason cited. 

     Recent studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Women's Association and the journal Fertility and Sterility indicate that "infertile" women utilizing hypnosis techniques have a 42% - 55% conception rate as compared with IVF alone.