HypnoBirthing™ - The Mongan Method

HypnoBirthing™ is a preparation for childbirth course which teaches you how to access all the natural resources within your body to help you easily achieve a normal birth.

Marie Mongan the founder of HypnoBirthing™ believes that all women have the ability to have a comfortable, gentle enjoyable and safe birth for themselves and their baby.

She based her own knowledge of natural childbirth on Dr. Grantly Dick-Read – a London doctor - findings, from the early 1900s. He realised that if a woman feared birth, this would cause tension and in turn pain.

His experience helping a woman give birth in the London slums in 1913 led him to this conclusion. He offered the woman pain relief, which she refused. He then stood back and watched her birth her baby, quietly, gently and safely. When asked afterwards why she refused the pain relief she said “ It didn’t hurt. It wasn’t meant to was it doctor.”

From her own experience of giving birth she knew that when you are free from fear and anxiety birth can be the enjoyable and rewarding experience that it is
meant to be.

The HypnoBirthing™ Programme was created in 1989 although the BMA, as far back as 1955 said that, as the result of a science based study,

‘Hypnosis is recognised by the BMA to effectively relieve pain during labour without physically altering the course of the birth’.