All the talk about hypno birthing is very interesting. My understanding was that only copies of Dick-Reads book childbirth without fear written prior to 1939 were actually written exclusively by him and since then has been modified by many others. I own this book and while I can imagine how someone came up with a term like hypno birthing I didn't feel that's what Dick-Read was saying. I saw what he says as meaning that women had to relax and to go within in order to let the natural pain killers we have work so well. I'm amazed that people always find ways to make money of others with some new method for helping women birth better or easier. I agree with Marilyn to some extent. I don't think we need to learn how to birth but I do believe that natural birth has become so surpressed in our society that the inate knowledge of women to birth their babies is being stiffled. Women need to be encouraged that it is within them, the need to be told that they can do it and that with good relaxation pain can be reduced. Many of us know that pain can be caused physiologically through fear, not just of pain but of many other things. And by the way, women should be informed that having a baby is not something we control, I tell my clients to take their logical brain and put it up on a shelf because the body needs to work uninterupted by the logic we place such high value on.
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