Hypnobirthing and Child Birth Articles by Katharine Graves
Katharine writes a number of articles and has appeared in the press a number of times during the course of her work.
Please read and enjoy a selection of her writings here - we hope you find them useful and entertaining.
Any comments, questions or feedback is always appreciated.
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Written by Katharine Graves
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Friday, 20 February 2009 00:07 |
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Hypnosis for Birth is a term often used interchangeably with Hypnobirthing, and it does emphasise a little some of the interesting aspects of the process that we teach.
When you talk about hypnosis people instantly seem to associate the activity with television shows - you know the type where the volunteers go up on to the stage, and are then hypnotised into doing strange things they would never normally do.
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Written by Katharine Graves
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Saturday, 07 March 2009 09:07 |
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"Hypnotherapy for birth" is a broad term describing the number of processes using self-hypnosis and relaxation techniques to make it easy for you as a mother to give birth to your child. It is a term that is being used more and more and goes hand in hand with a mother's desire to give her child and herself the best possible start in this world.
Hypnobirthing is without doubt the most well know 'brand' in the hypnotherapy birth arena, but there are some similar systems including "Hypnobabies", "Natal Hypnotherapy" which are similar, though of course they naturally claim to have some differences.
Typically some of these techniques include much more than simple hypnotherapy. Many mothers at our classes are heard to make comments like "when is the hypnosis going to begin?", because no body has started waving pendulums in front of their faces, or told them they are going to sleep! In reality the process is really much more subtle than that, and might better be described as "relaxing while practising thinking about a certain action or process in order to make the practice of it easier later on!" It includes a variety of techniques to help you relax and be in control of your own body and mind.
So What is the Childbirth problem that this helps?
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Written by Webmaster
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Tuesday, 12 August 2008 14:01 |
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We are working on a new "Hypnobirthing Knol", which is a reference piece about Hypnobirthing on the new Google web site: http://knol.google.com. The site is meant to be a definitive source of knowledge on any topic, with expertise provided by individual subject experts.
Google define a knol as being "a unit of Knowledge", and describe the site as the following: "Peer-reviewed encyclopedia from Google. Articles are written by named contributors."
Our piece about Hypnobirthing can be viewed at; Hypnobirthing Knol
Any feedback, suggestions and other ideas will be welcomed.
Regards,
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Katharine had a lovely article in the Times recently. It wasn't about her Hypnobirthing work, but it was about her Kinesiology, and specifically how she managed to help an initially sceptical client to get over some problems with Back Pain. The full article is here: Katharine Graves - Disarming Back Pain in The Times. |
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Written by Katharine Graves
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Friday, 08 August 2008 09:45 |
There’s a lovely article on the BBC website that you might like to read. It’s called ‘Why I Chose Hypnobirthing’ at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2136691.stm It gives the story of a typical hypnobirthing birth. The thing about hypnobirthing is that it is not ‘managing pain’. This dreadful phrase is on the lips of every midwife. The concept that it is unnatural for pain to exist in childbirth is something that people find it very difficult to understand because they have been programmed from a very early age to ‘know’ that birth is painful. But when you stop to think for a moment, how is it that one muscle, working in the way that it is intended to work, is painful when every other muscle in the miracle that is the human body is comfortable? It seems illogical, doesn’t it, and, when you reflect, it’s a pretty bit design fault when everything within our bodies is so complex that it’s almost magical, and it works so well. All mammals give birth in comfort. We are mammals. And yet many women suffer extreme pain. The difference between us and other mammals is that we have the rational brain, the neocortex, and it is this part of the brain that registers fear and is the cause of pain in childbirth. In the hypnobirthing course you learn why this is so, and how to drop the programming that is the cause of all the trouble. Fascinating? Yes. Almost unbelievable? Possibly. But it works. |
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Written by Katharine Graves
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Monday, 17 March 2008 16:11 |
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Until twenty to thirty years ago, no-one had thought of giving birth in water. Now it’s considered perfectly normal, if not desirable. Why should this be, and how has the change come about?
One of the obstetricians who has made the greatest difference to our view of birth today is Michel Odent. At his unit at Pithivier near Paris in the 1980s he propounded many aspects of natural birth that are widely used today.
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