“Hypnotherapy may help pregnant women turn their breech baby around to the normal head-first, or vertex, position.” A researcher at the University of Vermont, Burlington, used hypnosis with one hundred pregnant women whose fetuses were in the breech (feet-first) position between the thirty-seventh and fortieth week of gestation.
The intervention group received hypnosis with suggestions for general relaxation and release of fear and anxiety. While under hypnosis, the women were also asked why their baby was in the breech position.
The study, which appeared in the Archives of Family Medicine, reported that 81 percent of the fetuses in the hypnosis group moved to the vertex position, compared with 48 percent of the control group. Not surprisingly, hypnosis was most effective for the women motivated to use the technique.”
Natural Health Magazine, November to December 1995
When treating a breach pregnancy in my hypnotherapy practice, the mommy-to-be often discovers she has low self-esteem, fear of pain, fear of failure, the need to please others more then herself, and interestingly enough, fear of success. Do we deserve to have what we desire?
At times, we fear success more then we fear failure. After all, most of us are familiar with failure. It is not that unnatural to endure failure or to foresee it. But, what of success? Do we know it as well? Do we even deserve it? Are we worthy of it? Can it really be possible for us?
You deserve to be great, for your greatness does not belong to you alone. Your greatness is here to serve others. You deserve to have the birthing experience you crave because it is not just your birth but it is your child’s most significant moment in life.
When you ask and hope for a natural childbirth remember you are not jus asking for yourself but also for your child. In fact ask your child how he prefers to be born, if he could have anything he wanted. Yes, anything at all. Imagine, step by step, what that labor will be like; look around and see who will be there, how it will proceed and how the baby will emerge. Feel the baby in your arms, see her, smell her, hear him coo…smile at him. Have him participate in all your decisions, make him feel safe, wanted, cherished and important right now. From peri and prenatal psychology we are learning that babies can and will accrue memories while in the womb. It is thought that babies feel and embrace mom’s, and at times dad’s emotions. If fear, and low self-esteem is what you feel most of the time, so will they. I
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