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Express & Star
March 27th 2008
Clare to help
father - to- be by Chris Gorman
Shropshire Life
Magazine March 2008
More Help for new mums
1 page article on
Doula's and the support they offer based on Clare's
Doula service!
Radio WCR 16 August
2007
Chat about Doula's
and HypnoBirthing with Saul
Stafford Chronicle 16
August 2007
Open day information
Stafford General
Hospital Radio 3rd August 2007
Clare has a lively
chat with present Dee about HypnoBirthing!
Pick Me Up magazine 2
August 2007
Hypnotised to have a baby
Express and Star
14th June 2007
How hypnosis eases the pain of childbirth by Victoria
Nash
Read it now at:
http://www.expressandstar.co.uk/2007/06/14/hypnosis-eases-childbirth-pain/
Stafford and Stone
Chronicle 14th June 2007
Mum teaches 'hypno-birth' by Sarah Taylor
Stafford Post 6th
June 2007
Help on web for an enjoyable delivery By Matt Lloyd
Most people picture
birth as stressful, painful and difficult but a Gnosall
mum of two has launched a website to ensure parents to
be have a positive, enjoyable and empowering birthing
experience.
Clare Taggart's
business Beautiful Births, offers antenatal classes on
HypnoBirthing allowing mums to experience a calm,
relaxed and fear free natural birth through deep
relaxation.
Clare became
interested in the process after a difficult birth with
her son.
She said " it was
quite unpleasant but I realised at the times I was
relaxed it didn't hurt that much. When I became pregnant
again I decided I wasn't going through that again and
looked into HypnoBirths. The birth of my daughter was
much better because I was relaxed and not panicking"
Clare says most births are made harder because mothers
panic, causing stress levels to rise.
"They go into labour
and panic sets in and it's made worse by media reports
that there aren't enough midwives.
"They expect to start
giving birth and for the midwife to leave and not come
back but it's not the case.
"Most difficult
births are down to stress, so we teach parents to relax
trough breathing techniques and self hypnosis and that
helps them see the birth in a positive and empowering
way"
"During hypnosis the
mother is totally awake and aware of what's going on,
but is relaxed and can rewrite the subconscious to
overcome the fear of birth."
Clare says her
classes show women that birth is not painful and in one
case a patient was so relaxed she did not realise she
was in labour.
"it's amazing, people
see birth on TV with the screaming but it's just drama.
"if they showed a
birth with self hypnosis people would fall asleep
because it's so easy.
"The feedback we've
had has been really positive, people can't believe how
easy birth can be if your relaxed and not panicking"
For more information
about HypnoBirths visit www.beautifulbirths.co.uk
Prediction Magazine
Clare's birth story
Radio WCR 19th April
2007
35 minute interview
with Clare by Saul and Kay!
Cannock Chronicle 12th April 2007
Cannock Chase Post 12th Aril 2007
'Hypnotism scheme to ease birth pain' - by Mike Bradley
BBC Radio WM 11th April 2007
Phil Upton Interviews Clare on HypnoBirthing on the
Breakfast show.
The Sunday Mercury 4th March 2007
'How Hypnosis helped me to have an easy birth'
Excellent article on
HypnoBirthing
"How Hypnosis helped
me to have an easy birth"
by Fionnuala Bourke
The Ishta Centre, Stone - Newsletter 28th February
2007
Features an article
written by Clare read it now using the link below
www.ishtacentre.co.uk/Connections/Therapies/HypnoBirthing.html
BBC Radio Stoke 13th February 2007
Lamont Howie interviews Clare Taggart on HypnoBirthing
and it's benefits.
HypnoBirthing
Can childbirth be pain free, calm and relaxed? By
Clare Taggart
If you were told you
could give birth with little or no pain at all, without
using drugs you would think they had lost their marbles!
– right?
Wrong…..
HypnoBirthing is a childbirth education program that can
eliminate or greatly reduce the need for chemical pain
relief in labour.
The HypnoBirthing
philosophy is that birth is a normal, natural bodily
function for a woman. It is based on English
obstetrician Dr Grantly Dick Reads Fear-Tension-Pain
Syndrome. If fear (perceived or not) and tension can be
eliminated then pain should not be present.
HypnoBirthing is not a new phenomenon, it is now in it’s
eighteenth year and has allowed many hundreds of mums to
have an amazing, calm, relaxed and fear free birth.
HypnoBirthing classes will teach you special breathing
techniques, visualizations, time distortion, fear
release, light touch massage and deep relaxation,
regaining your trust in your birthing body and enabling
you to experience this fabulous one off occasion –
awake, calm, relaxed and yet energized.
Staffordshire mum of two Clare used HypnoBirthing with
her second child “Compared to my first labour this was
truly unbelievable, I was having complications but I
still managed to stay deeply relaxed and had a beautiful
natural birth with out needing pain killers! My daughter
was born alert, awake and breastfed easily. I loved
every minute and would happily give birth every day; now
I look at pregnant mums with envy!”
For more information
contact
www.hypnobirthingbabies.co.uk
Staffordshire Newsletter 25th January 2007
Pain-Free childbirth - in a trance
PAIN-FREE childbirth can be virtually guaranteed
according to a Gnosall resident who teaches women to
hypnotise themselves before labour.
Mother of two Clare Taggart is the only practitioner of
HypnoBirthing in Staffordshire. The 30 year old promises
gruelling 24- hour labours can be made a thing of the
past through hypnosis.
The Shelmore Way resident starts weekly classes next
month after being inspired to investigate labour pain
relief following the birth of her first child, Callum 2.
She said " I felt completely out of control of the
situation and scared to death. I was so spaced out
during and after his birth it feels like a haze. I
got pregnant again when my son was 9 months old and with
the memory of his birth fresh in my mind I decided to
look into pain relief options in more detail.
"
I remembered reading an article on HypnoBirthing and
thought it sounded to good to be true. People have a lot
of misconceptions about hypnosis. I prefer to call it
deep relaxation. You can't be hypnotised unless you want
to and you won't do anything you aren't comfortable with
so you shouldn't worry.
"if you want it to work it will We can't guarantee
painfree childbirth but it works 95% of the time. You
get a pain free labour, obviously there is some
discomfort but there is no pain.
Four week long programmes of classes start at Walton
Community Centre, Whitemill Lane, Stone on Feb 3.
Staffordshire Life January 2007
Painfree childbirth - By Jenny Amphlett
If
a woman told you she'd happily give birth every day of
the week you'd think she was barking mad or had lost the
ability to feel pain. But Clare Taggart is neither of
those things - she's simply discovered HypnoBirthing.
Jenny Amphlett met up with the Gnosall mum of two, who
wants to help other mums-to-be achieve a comfortable
childbirth.
As
soon as a woman becomes pregnant she starts being told
horror stories about 26 hour labours,12lb babies and
pain, lots and lots of pain.
But Staffordshire woman Clare Taggart says that need not
be necessarily be the case. She says women can choose a
calm, comfortable labour. The 30-year-old former
building society sales trainer had her second child
using HypnoBirthing, and was so moved by the experience
that she has trained as a practitioner herself. Now
Clare is leading group sessions and one-to-one classes
for parents to be.
She said " I gave birth to my son using Pethedine and
gas and air. I wanted an epidural but was unable to have
one. I felt completely out of control of the situation
and scared to death. I was so spaced out during and
after his birth it feels like a haze. I got pregnant
again when my son was nine months old and with the
memory of his birth fresh in mind I decided to look into
pain relief options in more detail. I remembered reading
an article on HypnoBirthing and thought it sounded to
good to be true"
Clare struggled to find anyone to help her with the
process. While her midwife had heard of HypnoBirthing
she didn't have any information, and hunting on the
internet didn't unearth a practitioner in Staffordshire.
But then Clare discovered that a friend had given birth
to twins using the technique ( and without pain relief).
"I went to see her in hospital the morning after the
birth and she looked fantastic. "She said it was really
easy, and I knew that was the sort of birth I wanted."
Clare's second experience of childbirth couldn't
have been more different from the first. " The
techniques kept me calm and I felt fine" she said. " I
had a relaxing CD on repeat and a book about
HypnoBirthing by the side of my bed. Without it I know
Id have been in a real panic. Giving birth wasn't
comfortable but I wouldn't describe it as painful. It
was the most amazing experience I've ever had."
Clare said she was laughing and joking with the midwife,
felt superb as soon as her daughter had been born and
was soon applying her make-up.
The principle behind HypnoBirthing is that it doesn't
work by masking the pain, it takes away the pain. The
theory is that when the mother-to-be is stressed she
tenses her muscles, which causes pain. if she's relaxed
her muscles aren't working against each other and pain
is drastically reduced.
"
The more you panic the more you tense up and the more
pain you feel," Clare said. "HypnoBirthing works by
making you really relaxed."
But Clare stresses that HypnoBirthing won't always work
for everyone, and it does necessitate commitment from
the parents-to-be.
People who want to use the method need to attend weekly
classes and then practice at home on a daily basis. They
can't simply read a book the day before the birth and
expect the techniques to work. Clare starts classes by
taking people through the myths and fears of hypnosis,
and revealing how it really works.
She then teaches them self-hypnosis, as she won't be on
hand for the actual birth. The farther-to-be has an
important role here, which Clare says can help fathers
feel more in control of the situation. They are given
scripts to read out which can help mum-to-be to
visualize a relaxed environment,
There was never any question for Clare that she would
train as a practitioner after experiencing HypnoBirthing
for herself.
"People hear so many horror stories that by the time
they're ready to give birth they're often absolutely
terrified. I'm determined to go out and tell everyone
that I had a fantastic birth, that it was great. and
whenever any of my friends get pregnant they know
they've got no alternative - they're going to have a
HypnoBirthing!"
HypnoBirthing is based on the work
of Dr Grantly Dick-Read, an English physician whose
principles are also the foundation of the National
childbirth Trust.
In his book Childbirth
without fear, originally published in 1933, he states
that " there is no physiological function in the body
that gives rise to pain in the normal course of health.
In no other animal species is the process of birth
apparently associated with any suffering, pain or agony,
except where pathology exists or in an unnatural state,
such as captivity."
When were afraid, our body diverts
blood and oxygen from non-essential defence organs to
large muscle groups in our extremities. Our face drains
of blood and we are said to be 'white with fear'.
Dr Grantly Dick-Read said the fear
felt by a woman during childbirth also caused blood to
be filtered away from the uterus, so it could be used by
the muscles that would flee the dangerous situation. As
a result, the uterus was left without oxygen and could
not perform it's functions efficiently or without pain.
This belief led to Dr. Grantly
Dick-Read's theory that fear and tension cause the
labour pains in approximately 95% of birthing women.
He termed this
phenomenon 'the fear-tension-pain syndrome of
childbirth' and he believed that by eliminating fear
women could return the uterus to it's normal function,
thereby eliminating the pain.
The HypnoBirthing Institute was
founded in the United states by Marie Mongan. Her book
HypnoBirthing a Celebration of life, was first published
in 1989 and HypnoBirthing is now taught in countries all
over the world.
Using her counselling skills as
a master hypnotherapist she developed the HypnoBirthing
program for her daughter and two friends.
The success of these
births brought other hypnotherapists to her office,
asking to be trained in what she was doing in birthing.
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