So did it help you?

[Bel0v3d]

Can anyone recommend cd's I can't afford the classes but would like to try the meditations.

[Opinionated]

Wow, an old thread of mine get's dragged back to life just as I am interested in it. Thanks.

[beccacino]

Can anyone recommend cd's I can't afford the classes but would like to try the meditations.

Before I enrolled in the class and bought the book etc I borrowed the book "Hypnobirthing" The Mongan Method by Marie Mongan from our local library and it had the CD that comes with the book. There might be a wait for the book though so best to try asap to get hold of it. Not sure of the legal jumbo for a borrowed book but once we bought the book we imported the CD into my iPod for easy usage. We've had 2 from 2 awesome hypnobirths so far & highly recommend hypnobirthing to EVERYONE who is silly enough to tell us they are having a baby.

p.s I'm not sure what the difference between calmbirth & hypnobirth is exactly but my hypnobirth couldn't have been any calmer.

[Polly6034]

The Hypnobirthing book is only about $15 on Book Depository, bargain!

And our Hypnobirthing instructor said there's no difference between Calm Birth and Hypnobirthing except the name and that Calm Birth was adapted from Hypnobirthing by an Australian.

[breakthemould]

I just saw this thread and thought I'd add a technique that I used in my birth 5 months ago that really helped me.

I had only read about Calmbirthing and similar ideas, and read Juju Sundins book called Birth Skills. I had a 36 hour drug free birth for my DS 2 years ago and wanted to do it the same for my DD.

I did lots of rocking, swaying, blowing and the usual but one visualization which really helped me (and I'm not a visualisation kinda girl) was to picture a bottle, like a wine bottle, full. I would picture it as soon as the contraction started to build, and a would take really slow deep breaths and with each breath OUT I would picture some of the substance in the bottle disappearing. I would do this for the whole contraction, only a few breaths because I was breathing so deeply and slowly, and bottle would be empty as the contraction finished. I imagined 'blowing the pain away' - the pain was the substance in the bottle, and with each breath the pain was closer to being gone.

Its weird, and I don't know where I got it from, I think I made it up, but it REALLY worked for me. I tried to explain it to DH after one contraction and he looked at me like I'd lost the plot!

Maybe it will help someone else though

[bubhubby]

There is a significant difference between Calmbirth courses in Australia and Hypnobirthing and to learn about the differences scroll down the link page...here is a link to explain the difference between the two:
http://www.julieclarke.com.au/pages/...calmbirthr.php