• Eliminates or greatly reduces the need for chemical painkillers.
• Shortens the first stage of labor by several hours.
• Eliminates fatigue during labor, leaving mother fresh, awake, and with energy for actual birthing.
• Eliminates risk of hyperventilation from "shallow" breathing methods.
• Promotes special bonding of mother, baby, and birthing companion.
• More rapid postnatal recovery.
• Returns birthing to the beautiful, peaceful experience nature intended.
• Creates a more integral role for birthing companion.

What will you learn?

• Relaxation and self-hypnosis techniques to eliminate the fear and tension that cause long labor and pain, replacing it with confidence, calm, and comfort.
• Other techniques to produce a shorter, more comfortable labor.
• The creation and control of the body's own natural anesthesia.
• The source of the myth that pain must accompany normal birthing.
• Why women in other cultures have birthings almost entirely free of discomfort.
• How the mother's body is designed to work in neuro-muscular harmony with nature throughout labor.
• Practice in deep relaxation during and between uterine surges.
• The importance of prenatal and perinatal bonding.

Morning sickness is the nausea and/or vomiting that some women have when they become pregnant.

For some women morning sickness will go away by the fourth or fifth month for others it could last into the ninth month. It isn’t easy to say when it will stop because each woman is different.

The dictum to “treat the patient who has the vomiting rather than the vomiting” is important.

Nausea and vomiting and even hyperemesis gravidarum are astonishingly susceptible to hypnosis.

Studies in England, Russia and Israel have success rates of 85% to 90%.

The woman’s confidence and self-esteem are increased when she realizes that the power to eradicate the symptoms are easily accomplished, and no dependency on drugs or the doctor is required.

Insomnia is difficulty in falling asleep or staying asleep or a disturbance in sleep that makes people feel as if they've had insufficient sleep when they awaken. Insomnia can be successfully treated in as little as two sessions.