A recent natural birth organization emailed me an article about the benefits of hypnobirthing, one of the benefits as cited in the article was "creating a strong bond between Mother and Child."

As a Naturopathic psychology student, naturopath doctor, and a previous home and hospital birther-I have a lot to share in this area.

Hypnotizing oneself and dissociating from ones birth is a far cry from what is described in the hypnotic birth article as creating a strong bond between Mother and child-

What is the difference between drugging and numbing yourself with drugs-
or numbing yourself emotionally in hypnosis? In each case you bypass your consciousness and escape the moment.

Many experts who are advocates of contactful and bonded birthing-such as Dr. Michel Odent, Dr. Bradley, and Wilhelm Reich- discouraged women from disconnecting through hypnosis in birth and to seek remaining in full contact of their emotions-consciously as a worthy birth goal.

Hypnotism is a very dangerous tool that causes the subject to become more easily suggestable each time they go under and let down their conscious "guard" -opening the mind and rendering it "weaker"-having an effect like fluoride and aluminum does on the brain as in the case of anti-depressants, anti-anxiety meds (the usuage of fluoride to numb and weaken the brain was started in World War II in Nazi Germany, where mass amounts of Fluoride were pumped into the water system to keep the people emotionally "grazing" and emotionally dead. Fluoride/aluminum is also the number one common factor in all alzheimer cases.)

In a society such as ours that preys on "suggestable" and vulnerable individuals-through hypnotic sales tactics and capitalist tricks-

It is far better for us as natural birthers to encourage women to birth in the light of consciousness and not in fear and emotional escape...

Perhaps a tactic such as hypnosis and/or drugging might only be necessary if the woman was at some time exposed to severe sexual abuse or rape and therefore experiences chronic womb stasis with the emotional inability to open up and release the baby through the pelvis-this woman would also be a likely candidate for c-section-so, hypnotic birth might be a plausable alternative.

Keep in mind- I advocate unearthing emotional issues and releasing trauma through the AMH and Orgonomy treatments- this would be releasing and healing the core issue and not just avoiding it with different types of natural and unnatural tactics. This would not just benefit the woman in birth but also throughout her life-positively effecting her relationships with others; having the most notable and immediate effect on the parent/child, husband/wife relationships.

Just my two natural birth cents,

Aurore

Aurore Adamkiewicz, ND
beyondnaturalmedicine.com