hypnobirthing

/ ˈhɪpnəʊˌbɜːθɪŋ /

noun

1. the use of hypnotic techniques during labour by an expectant mother to reduce the pain and emotional stress of delivery

Example Sentences

Her surgery came just a day too late: Ms. Goodlander, 37, delivered the baby in 2023 at a hotel near the hospital, relying on her experience taking a hypnobirthing course on YouTube.

From New York Times

BRISTOL, Vt. — Eight years ago, shortly before the birth of her first child, the musician Anaïs Mitchell was instructed in a hypnobirthing class to envision her “happy place,” and was flooded with a sense memory from her rural Vermont childhood.

From New York Times

He held Soneni's hand and together they put the breathing exercises they'd learnt at their hypnobirthing classes into practice.

From BBC

“In looking back now,” she wrote, “I must admit — the acceptance of HypnoBirthing didn’t come the way I thought it would. It was a very steep uphill climb. A few times a doctor would inquire, ‘What did you say this is?’

From Washington Post

Marie Mongan, an educator who helped popularize a childbirth-preparation technique known as hypnobirthing, which has been used by British royals Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, actress Jessica Alba and hundreds of thousands of other women to achieve a gentler birth experience, has died at 86.

From Washington Post