When Are You Due?

When you are at a social function or just bump into an acquaintance, who didn't know you are pregnant, you usually encounter a question:

When are you due?

Instead of just saying the month of your baby's arrival, and the conversation becoming 20 questions (who are you having? do you have a name? and other questions) or in response to other people' stories particularly not so happy stories that people volunteer seeing your tummy growing.

Take active part in your conversation and steer the conversation in the direction of practicing your ideal birth imagery and doing the exercise that is positively useful to you, your mind practice with your body and definitely positive for your baby:


It will be the fall, leaves will be turning colorful yellow, red and orange. The weather will cool off a bit. My husband and I will expect the day of my baby birth with cheerful joy. This is a great opportunity for the both of us to be together in a joint loving effort. 


My baby knows what to do and the birth will be a joyful, relaxed event,because we took active part in preparation and took our HypnoBirthing class, By the date of my baby's birth my husband and I will have practiced by then a thousand times what we'll do on the day of my labor start. I am fit and positive. Relaxed and calm. I trust my body and my body knows what to do. I breathe deeply and comfortably. 

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Do you know your baby is listening to you?

What you say and how you say it is important.

The thoughts that you have affect your baby's emotional development.

Help your baby's sense of safety and comfort.

Pink Is For The Girls, or.... For The Boys?!!

I always thought my favorite color being red. I brought it up with my mother, and she mentioned that my first baby blanket was red with white fish print. I was puzzled. My brother's favorite color is sky blue, and his first wrap blanket was ....Sky blue color. My partner' first blanket was color orange, and guess what color is his favorite! Some people don't remember their first blanket, but they remember their first set of clothes, that was their .... favorite color!

That cute picture is of toddler FDR (Franklin Roosevelt!!!) in a dress, from 1884. Jeanne Maglaty of the Smithsonian Institue writes:

A Ladies' Home Journal article [or maybe from a different source, according to a commenter] in June 1918 said, "The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl." Other sources said blue was flattering for blonds, pink for brunettes; or blue was for blue-eyed babies, pink for brown-eyed babies, according to Paoletti.

In 1927, Time magazine printed a chart showing sex-appropriate colors for girls and boys according to leading U.S. stores. In Boston, Filene's told parents to dress boys in pink. So did Best & Co. in New York City, Halle's in Cleveland and Marshall Field in Chicago.
Today's color dictate wasn't established until the 1940s . . . 

When the women's liberation movement arrived in the mid-1960s, with its anti-feminine, anti-fashion message, the unisex look became the rage . . . in the 1970s, the Sears, Roebuck catalog pictured no pink toddler clothing for two years. . . . Gender-neutral clothing remained popular until about 1985. . . .

20% More American Women Chose to Birth at Home

Born at home.

What a peaceful feeling we get from hearing these words.

According to Birth Issues and Prenatal Care Journal, we see the reversal of the long downturn of the home birth trend. It has been emphasized in the research by the National Study for Health Statistics that the majority of home births is driven by women who are highly educated, are in excellent pre-natal health, mostly white and married, and are in the category of what is medically terme as low-risk.

For some of those women home birth is a second birth, and mostly preceded by a "bad" experience with a hospital birth the first time around.

Marian Declercq, author of the study, said that while this study was conducted by analyzing birth records, not through interviews, a previous study found that the top three reasons women gave for choosing home birth were:

1. Safety.
2. Avoidance of unnecessary medical interventions common in hospital births.
3. Previous negative hospital experience.

Safety ! WOW! that tell you a lot. If those who choose home birth choose it for safety....... How safe do you think is a hospital? Not safe at all....

Tina Cassidy, a Boston Journalist, who mentions research on the birth of Jackie Kennedy's children through her 4 scheduled C-sections in her encompassing book Birth: The Surprising Story of How We Are Born, writes about her own birthing experience: “I was more comfortable, and felt safer there, than in a hospital,” she said. “The research shows home births are safer for low-risk women but doctors can’t seem to get that through their thick heads.”

How to Avoid Artificial Induction - Hugs Before Drugs

How to start your labor NATURALLY?

• There are ways to encourage labor along naturally, however, the most effective solution proved to be relaxation and hypnotherapy.
• Go to a long walk in the park, or up and down the stairs, do some physical exercises
• Acupuncture/ Acupressure/ Reflexology/ Aromatherapy with a professional
• Raspberry leaf tea/ spicy foods

Make sure you have eliminated any lingering issues and limitations that may be dragging from your past. Thoughts about your own inability or childhood doubts are often very limiting. 

Make sure all the issues related to your organization of your birthing day are finished. Lingering painting job in the baby room, or husband's availability for the birth date, mother's and sister's unresolved issues, or who is going to take care of your 3-year-old daughter, when you are giving birth to her brother? 

You may also be having last minute concerns about giving birth, so a fear release/ limiting concern hypnosis session with your hypnotherapy professional will help. If you haven't yet attended a HypnoBirthing course, do so now, where you and your birth companion will get a birth release hypnosis script that will help you start your labor.

Mostly it is all about hugs. Kissing and stimulating the areas of sensitivity, nipples, light touch massage, tickling the skin, all bring up the levels of oxytocin that help start the labor. 

Get yourself into relaxed state, where the more you relax the more your muscles can get on with doing their job of thinning and opening.  

Use peaceful visualisations you’ve practiced, such as the opening flower bud, hot air balloon and birth release.

Don’t dismiss sex as a pleasurable option to start your labor.  What got you into this situation, and it can get you out of it. It may be the last thing on your mind at 40+ weeks pregnant, but semen contains prostaglandin which will start thinning your cervix. In fact, a synthetic version of prostaglandin is used to induce labor, so why not give a good go to the real thing?

And finally, remember to ask your baby to cooperate, explaining why it would be good for them the healthy aspects of natural birthing. Tell your baby how much you’re looking forward to meeting them, holding them, and what you’ve done to prepare for their arrival. You already learned that your mind is very powerful. They will pay attention to you, after all you are their mother!!!

Last and not least,  remember to use SELF HYPNOSIS. I can't tell you how many times I keep hearing form moms that this self-hypnosis helped her dilate and save her birth from being induced artificially, so you could have a wonderful experience of the peaceful safe and natural birth that you desire. 

Morrin is available to speak with you regarding your desire to have a peaceful calm birth that you want. 

It's a girl! - A Testimonials From a New HypnoBirthing Mom

Hi Morrin!

Thank you so much for checking in!  Yes, I do have a Happy HypnoBirthing story to tell. 


Yes, it is a girl! She is more than we ever could have expected or imagined... 


This birth was such a blessing!!  I am so proud of myself and of our efforts together.


...The birth went well. I mean really peaceful and calm. All went beyond my expectations. Hypnobirthing proved to be a wonderful tool, and as I transitioned SOOOO fast that both my midwife and doula were completely amazed and shocked!!   


My water broke at 7:30 pm and by midnight I was FULLY dialated. Me and worked really beautifully together.....

Thank you so much for all of your training and coaching. You were a HUGE help in our home Hypnobirthing experience.

...I delivered completely naturally, totally safe and normal. it is amazing how normal it seems in retrospect. We are so happy.

...The complete home birth experience, where the labor was great, and in the end - the birth was just as great as the last accord in the great symphony about love and life!

Thank you for checking in!!!

Love,

, and

Celebrity Jessica Alba speaks about HypnoBirthing on TV

Jessica Alba is pregnant for the second time. Last week on Ellen Degeneres Show she talked about her preparation for her birth - calm and smiling.

"It's not like the clock in front of your face and you go out and you wake up and you got a baby," Alba joked. 

"Basically my husband takes me through sort of a meditation. He'll say, 'you're relaxed, and you're floating on clouds while you're going through labor and your contractions. 

"I'm just concentrating on breathing and staying relaxed because it's when you get tense that makes the whole labor worse and more painful. That's all it is. It's not like a weird thing."

Alba also mentioned that concentrating on the words from her husband "is sort of calming and wonderful."