Birth is normal, natural, and healthy; it is not a medical event, HypnoBirthing® is not about science; it is not about anatomy; it is not about obstetricians or midwives or even childbirth educators. It's about mothers and fathers and babies - it's about families and respect for their rights and wishes to bring their babies into the world in a gentle and calm way. It's about making birthing "better natured" for women and their babies.
Marie Mongan 1992
According to physiological law, all natural, normal functions of the body are achieved without peril or pain. Birth is a natural, normal physiological function for normal, healthy women and their healthy babies. It can, therefore, be inferred that healthy women, carrying healthy babies, can safely birth without peril or pain.
Dr Jonathan Dye, 1891.
Birthing is so integral with life - so common - that choices surrounding it often get relegated to chance. We tend to go along with what everyone else is doing, assuming that must be for the best. Living in a technological society, we tend to think that the best of everything is the most expensive kind available. This is generally true, whether we are talking about cell phones, cameras, cars or computers. When it comes to birth, it ain’t necessarily so.
