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What is hypnobirthing?

This labour and delivery management technique promises a nearly pain-free birth. Here's how it works

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Originally published on TodaysParent.com August 06, 2011


Suzanne Csizmar had what many would consider a dream labour and delivery. “It was uncomfortable, but no worse than constipation,” she says of her first baby’s birth. “It almost didn’t hurt at all.” The whole process lasted nine hours and she did the entire thing drug-free. She had, however studied HypnoBirthing, which she says trained her to use breathing techniques, music and visualization for a drug-free birth.

Advocates say HypnoBirthing is the key to experiencing a painless (or less painful), joyful drug-free birth. Based on the work of British obstetrician Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, the specialized prenatal courses teach women to trust in the natural experience of labour, kissing fear, and therefore pain, goodbye.

“This technique and philosophy teaches mothers their bodies are made to give birth,” says Ilona Fritsch, the Montreal-based hypnotherapist who brought the Mongan Method of HypnoBirthing to Canada 14 years ago. “We teach women to do what their bodies already know how to do.”

Fritsch, a mother of three, says through self-hypnosis techniques, women are able to release their own natural endorphins allowing birth to take place in a calm and controlled environment, often without the use of drugs.

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