Expecting a Baby, But Not the Pain



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Posted by Ed 14 yrs ago
When she gave birth to her daughter last July, Cassie Friesen, of Broomfield, Colo., imagined she was inside a bubble and repeated the word "peace" with each contraction.


The 25-year-old former nanny learned these relaxation and visualization techniques in a hypnotherapy course she took in hopes of minimizing the pain of childbirth. "It's so corny-sounding," she says, and yet it worked. She describes her daughter Aster's July 7 arrival as "fun—even enjoyable," words not many other mothers use when describing the experience.


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cookie09 14 yrs ago
good stuff. we used hypnobirthing and at a bare minimum it provides for a very valuable alternative viewpoint to all the mainstream and uninformedness at hong kong hospitals...


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