HypnoBirthing Utah classes now in Salt Lake City and Utah County

December 15, 2011
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Our newest HypnoBirthing Utah class location: Better Birth in Salt Lake City 3538 S Highland Drive, Salt Lake City Our Salt Lake HypnoBirthing class runs for five weeks, every Wednesday night from 6:30 – 9:30 PM. I absolutely love teaching at this birth center, giving moms an opportunity to explore their birthing choices. About 40% of [...]

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Christina’s First Birth: 24 hour relaxed labor, totally unmedicated, arrived at hospital at 10 cm dilation

December 13, 2011
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I was Christina’s doula, and I have a lot of amazing memories of this birth. One thing that stands out to me as a truly beautiful moment was her husband, Darren, telling the story of how they met and fell and love, as Christina was pushing. It had everyone in the room smiling, and the [...]

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Sally’s First Birth: Water Birth at a Birth Center. Stayed calm and focused even with intense back labor.

December 13, 2011
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“The point of HypnoBirthing is NOT to birth without pain. The point is to birth with LOVE and CONFIDENCE, without FEAR, without unnecessary INTERVENTION, and with a supportive team who shares your birth vision. THAT is the definition of a successful hypnobirth.” ~Laura Curtis HBCE On Tuesday, June 21st at 6:30 am, I woke up [...]

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Ecstatic Birth: Your hormones are your helpers

December 11, 2011
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By Dr Sarah J. Buckley, MD 2005 www.sarahbuckley.com Previously published in Australia’s Parents Pregnancy magazine, Autumn 1999, as “Your Hormones are your Helpers” An updated version is published in Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices (Sarah J Buckley MD, Celestial Arts, 2009).   Imagine this: Your [...]

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Mackenzie’s First Birth:

December 6, 2011
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Ruby is 6 days old! I can hardly believe that this time last week my body was prepping itself to deliver her. Sunday I felt completely terrible, I threw-up in the morning and then again after dinner, I missed church because I just felt so awful. I was hoping these were all signs that I [...]

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Holly’s First Birth: Quick progress, Euphoric birth!

December 6, 2011
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Our sweet baby boy came to us on Wednesday, October 19, 2011 at 11:01am. Here is his story… At 3:40 in the morning, I woke up to a tightened belly and what I realized  was a real surge! I got up to go to the bathroom and the feeling went away. When the next one [...]

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Marissa’s first birth: Unmedicated at the Hospital

November 8, 2011
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Monday night I couldn’t sleep, for the first time I was having practice surges. I thought nothing of it. I thought about calling in sick to work the next morning because I got no sleep and the surges were still coming every once and a while. But I decided to go anyways. At work I [...]

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First-time Mama, 9 lb baby, Six hour labor, Peaceful Home Water Birth

November 7, 2011
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Kat was one of my most dedicated hypno-birthers ever. She really put her heart and soul into preparing for this birth, and with the help of her wonderful husband and excellent midwife, Richelle Jolley, she gave her baby such a beautiful welcome on his birthday. This story gave me the chills. Today Phineas is a [...]

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What happens when your birth takes an unexpected turn?

October 14, 2011
Jen Snyder

This post has been a long time coming. It is something that needs to be addressed in a sensitive way, because we always want to “focus on the positive” in HypnoBirthing. However, the beautiful thing about the universe is that sometimes the greatest good comes from our greatest trials. I have had three very different [...]

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Carolee’s First Birth: Long challenging labor, beautiful home birth

October 13, 2011
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It’s Sunday morning and I’m sitting at my computer for the first time in what seems like forever. It’s time to write down the feelings in my heart before these feelings fade into new feelings and experiences. I don’t know if there are words to adequately express exactly how I feel at this moment- but [...]

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