All Mindful Mamma teachers are trained in Mindful Hypnobirthing, but many have also done additional training in how to apply these tools to an induction, caesarean birth and the early days.

This reliance on something external took away from the experience that they could do it without the tools, but also busied the mind when it should be quietening down ready for birth. When you work with me you'll be setting goals and working in a way that gently a unlocks a power within you; a power that you know is there, but haven't known how to access. This message also applies to the book itself - you don’t need this book to have a positive birth experience! The hypnobirthing benefit for baby is that your baby feels what you feel and can also enjoy the time out to relax and let go.Hypnosis and mindfulness are not just relaxation techniques, when you are taught in a class like ours you will really understand the difference. Whether you have a homebirth or you have a gentle caesarean our practitioners will support you and give you what you need to make it the best possible experience it can be. I liked the explanations of how and why mindful hypnosis is effective for birthing and the stories from other parents were inspiring and reassuring.

If you want to guarantee the best birth experience possible, or like me just want to make sense of your birth experiences and be equipped to give the best advise to your daughters - I strongly recommend this book.It also gives you some powerful tools and techniques to further enhance your pregnancy journey and the birth of your child. In Mindful Hypnobirthing you use a lot of short, simple and easy to learn conditioning tools, so that your soothing system is activated unconsciously without thoughts getting in the way. Random House presents the unabridged, downloadable audio edition of Mindful Hypnobirthing: Hypnosis and Mindfulness Techniques for a Calm and Confident Birth by Sophie Fletcher, read by the author.

It doesn’t tell you what to do, it doesn’t preach about what is right or wrong, but gives wonderful, up-to-date, pertinent and fascinating information. It mostly angered me and stressed me out (clearly not the intended effect), though it did make me laugh very hard in a few places. I do think the mindfulness techniques helped me roll with the changes to my birth plan and deal confidently and calmly with an emergency situation. This set is designed for relaxation, confidence and even has a track for rapid rest and regeneration for while your baby is napping. For a birth partner understanding what your own fears and worries are, and why they can impact your partners labour, and learning what you can do about it, is some of the best preparation you can do.It creates a fluidity between the use of practical hypnosis tools and the experience of mindfully being in a natural birthing state.