Re: [ozmidwifery] Hypnobirthing

2003-10-31 Thread Marilyn Kleidon
I don't think that any of the breathwork modalities take away from women the owning of their own birth experience. Nor are they the answer for every woman or for every birth. As much as birth is a natural event for women, I think we need to acknowledge ourselves as social animals, and just as we ma

[ozmidwifery] hypnobirth

2003-10-31 Thread gresch
This is really intersting to me as I am pregnant with the "bonus" fourth child. I have birthed three boys, all under my own steam, first in hospital with strangers, 2nd and 3rd at home with the same midwidfe, as I hope to do again. For me I see this as the last chance to personally explore what I

Re: [ozmidwifery] Hypnobirthing

2003-10-31 Thread Marilyn Kleidon
- Original Message - From: "Belinda Maier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 6:06 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Hypnobirthing > My concern is and always has been that any therapy asserted as being the > answer to what women need for a 'good' birt

Re: [ozmidwifery] Hypnobirthing

2003-10-31 Thread Belinda Maier
My concern is and always has been that any therapy asserted as being the answer to what women need for a 'good' birth confines the needs and experiecnes of women. Do women really need to have a hypno birth use acupuncture, aromatherapy or epiducral? Maybe where women are at the time of their lives

[ozmidwifery] hypnobirthing

2003-10-31 Thread Mary Murphy
From another list: " I had a class reunion this afternoon. The intervention rate was unbelievable. We were more than three quarters around the group's birth experiences before we got a natural birth. The breast feeding rate was about fifty per cent of the group"   If hypnobirthing and the lik

Re: [ozmidwifery] Hypnobirthing

2003-10-31 Thread Mary Murphy
Jodie wrote:  "I think we all naturally hypno-birth when we're in the right environment, safe, supported and of sound mind.  This is just another method that gives women access to the skills to endure childbirth more comfortably." I just love this conversation... I recently completed the hy

RE: [ozmidwifery] Hypnobirthing

2003-10-31 Thread Tracey Anderson Askew
Probably true Andrea, but is this not the same effect that hypno-birthing type skills illicit within the body? Same thing I would have thought. I agree I like this kind of discussion too, it helps me to 'reframe' my experiences and learn from them. Tracey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PR

Re: [ozmidwifery] Andrea's Hypnobirthing entry

2003-10-31 Thread Elissa and David
I am curious how you can "have direct experience with Grantly Dick Read through his son" . He's not a medium is he ? Cheers, David - Original Message - From: "Andrea Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 6:15 PM

Re: [ozmidwifery] Andrea's Hypnobirthing entry

2003-10-31 Thread Jodie Miller
On Friday 31 October 2003 17:15, Andrea Robertson wrote: > I also have direct experience > with Grantly Dick Read through his son, who enrolled in our Graduate > Diploma but failed to complete the written work. We had the opportunity to > discuss the underlying ideas of his father in a workshop, bu

RE: [ozmidwifery] Hypnobirthing

2003-10-31 Thread Andrea Robertson
Hi Tracey, I like to get people to think... that is always my first aim! I wonder if what you were feeling in your third birth was actually the effect of endorphin release? As you know, the endorphins are directly affected by fear and anxiety and perhaps the wodnerful support you had in your p

Re: [ozmidwifery] Andrea's Hypnobirthing entry

2003-10-31 Thread Andrea Robertson
Hello Diane, Are you suggesting that I am not open minded? I do have a very broad perspective on things, coming from a widely travelled background and actual experience in many births and places I also have direct experience with Grantly Dick Read through his son, who enrolled in our Grad