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Mindful Hypnobirthing

Hypnosis and Mindfulness Techniques for a Calm and Confident Birth

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Mindful Hypnobirthing

By: Sophie Fletcher
Narrated by: Sophie Fletcher
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Random House presents the audio edition of Mindful Hypnobirthing: Hypnosis and Mindfulness Techniques for a Calm and Confident Birth by Sophie Fletcher, read by the author.

Hypnotherapist and experienced doula Sophie Fletcher shares with you the secrets to having a safe, natural and positive birth. Using a powerful combination of mindfulness, hypnosis and relaxation techniques, Sophie will ensure you feel genuinely excited and completely prepared for birth.

With stories from women who have successfully used the tools in this audiobook, and downloadable hypnosis and relaxation tracks, discover how to:

  • Use your mind and body together to stay focused and in control
  • Draw on visualisation and breathing techniques to help birth progress
  • Feel positive and empowered, before, during and after you give birth

Reassuring, practical and based entirely on what works, Mindful Hypnobirthing is your essential guide to giving birth the way you want to.

Part 1: Preparation and Pregnancy

Chapter 1. What Is Mindful Hypnobirthing?

Chapter 2. The Benefits of a Mindful Hypnobirth

Chapter 3. Getting Ready for a Mindful Hypnobirth

Chapter 4. Getting to Know your Birthing Zone

Chapter 5. Letting Go of Fear and Anxiety

Chapter 6. Creating Positive Birth Beliefs

Chapter 7. The Power of Visualisation for Birth

Chapter 8. Your Birth Belongs to You

Chapter 9. Birth Preferences

Chapter 10. Birth Space, Relaxing Space

Chapter 11. Turning a Birth Partner into a Hypnobirth Partner

Chapter 12. When Will I Go into Labour?

Part 2: Birth

Chapter 13. This Is It! Signs That Labour Has Started

Chapter 14. My Baby’s Nearly Here!

Chapter 15. When Things Take a Different Path

Part 3: Welcoming your Baby to the Family

Chapter 16.Welcome Home

©2017 Sophie Fletcher (P)2017 Penguin Audio Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Self-Hypnosis Sexual & Reproductive Health Spirituality Meditation Mindfulness Sexual Health Pregnancy Mental Health Natural Labour
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I listened to this in my last trimester. I found it extremely soothing to listen to and the narrator's voice is perfect.
I found the hypno exercises really great for helping me fall back to sleep when I had 3rd trimester insomnia.
As for my birth, it all happened so quickly, I didn't get to listen to the tracks as planned. But I did try to remember the coping strategies as best as I could during labour. Who knows if giving birth was improved from this audio book or not; but overall I had a positive, fast, first time labour without any complications. So no complaints from mum and bub.

Good for insomnia and labour

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loved it. great meditations in between the chapters and the whole list of meditations at the end are so easy and convenient that I dont have to search for them, they are all lined up at the end. I listen to them every night and fall asleep easily.

worth it

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I felt there was a slight bias against hospitals throughout this book. Got to 6hours to go and just couldn’t persevere for the sake of it. Hoping to use the hypno birthing tracks for our labour (in a hospital).

Lovely narration, slight bias against hospitals

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a great hypnobirthing book even with sone hypnosis tracks to help through pregnancy and prepare for birth.

loved it

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I’m 34 week pregnant with first baby and have thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. Lots of helpful tips and meditations to do. Her voice is very calm and relaxing. Naturally she is all for births that are as natural and intervention free, but she doesn’t exclude discussing all other options as sometimes they are unavoidable (or the choice in your situation). I highly recommend this book to any mum to be that wishes for as natural as possible birth. I’m now so excited for my birth. Thank you

Incredible book

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I really enjoyed this. It helped me soften parts of my body I didn't realise were holding tension. looking forward to using these tools throughout my pregnancy & birth ❤️

So relaxing to listen to!

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Excellent book for beginners! In the last part you can find all the exercises. High recommend if you are planning to starting thinking about birth as a mindfulness journey.

Excellent for beginners

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I listened to this several times before the birth of my first child and I truly believe it was a key factor in me having a calm and intervention free natural birthing experience. I am now pregnant with my second child and am loving listening to it again.
Sophie's voice is so soothing and calming and all the different hypnosis tracks throughout the book are incredibly useful during pregnancy and labour.
I recommend this to all my pregnant friends.

Fantastic tool for a calm birth

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The book and concepts although very repetitive (but I guess that's needed for hypnosis bwah haa haa) was really good but audible format was frustrating I actually went and bought the MP3 tracks and borrowed the book from a girlfriend (who had recommended it) as I was unable to use the audio outside of audible app. I tried using bookmarks and clips but it was difficult as the chapter listing didn't come across into the app. So great book but not via audible. Sadly.

Needed to buy MP3 tracks

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I personally didn’t enjoy the narrator. I found her quite repetitive and often felt like she was narrating to a child which I don’t enjoy. Likely just my personal preference though!

Didn’t enjoy the narrator

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