Over the last century, a revolution has taken place in childbirth, and the pendulum is swinging towards natural birth, with the back-up of medical expertise where needed, but we are beginning to realize that that need is less than previously thought.
A hundred and fifty to two hundred years ago, th…
Before they’re pregnant, many women think they’ll take ‘the soft option’ and have a caesarean. Then they become pregnant and their hormones do somersaults. They read some more about caesareans and realize that maybe they aren’t the soft option they’d thought, either for themselves or their babies…
Since the beginning of time there have been myths and old wives’s tales surrounding pregnancy and childbirth, as well as genuine practices which we would today consider barbaric or just plain strange! So we thought it would be fun to take a look back to see how our ancestors coped.
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The fame of Hypnobirthing is spreading fast by word of mouth, simply because it works so well, and that’s how it has always spread.
Probably the person accredited with the origin of the term Hypnobirthing is Michelle Leclaire O’Neill in 1987 [www.leclairemethod.com], who authored books on the subje…
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