Previous bouts of depression, a lack of social support, low self-esteem and a stressful pregnancy all increase the likelihood of postpartum depression according to a study, which appeared in the Archives of General Psychiatry.   The study was performed at the University of Irvine, Ca and involved 100 female subjects. That factors such as lack of [...]

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This is the story of the birth of baby Honey as told to my collegaue Helen, HBCE, in Sydney, Australia and published with her permission.
Hypnobirthing was so much more than just learning how to have a
painfree birth … it’s a skill that changed my life forever!
It taught me about COMMUNICATION .. with my body, my [...]

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Fresh from the HypnoBirthing® statistician: Our numbers are fantastic!  In the United States, 72 percent of HypnoBirthing women choose to birth without pain medication.  The percentage is lower world wide, as 37 percent of women in the United Kingdom (Great Britain) use nitrous oxide (which is rarely available in the US).  Our surgical birth rate [...]

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A California woman recently gave birth to eight babies all at one time.  This event certainly is newsworthy because of its rarity and also because of the appeal to one’s imagination.  It’s fun to speculate to the future and imagine amazing birthday parties, baffled teachers, transportation challenges and the size of the dinner table.  One [...]

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The hormone oxytocin also known as the “love hormone” has captured the interest of research psychiatrists.  According to Rebecca Turner PhD, UCSF adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry and lead author of a study conducted in 1999 found that the study indicated “oxytocin may be mediating emotional experience in close relationships.”
 
 The study was based on [...]

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A full term pregnancy is 40 weeks as it apparently takes at least that amount of time for the unborn baby to fully develop.  Some pregnancies last for up to 42 weeks, but that’s a topic for another article.
 
 Aside from the physical development there is also the mental and emotional development to consider.  Results [...]

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HypnoBirthing® continues to expand as more and more pregnant ladies are taking HypnoBirthing classes. As such, an increasingly large number of babies are HypnoBirthing babies.  From my perspective this, of course, is a beautiful turn of events and I certainly hope to see a continuation of the trend magnified.    
 
It’s magnificent and life confirming to [...]

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Reality is Relative and only limited by Imagination
 
January 4th, 2009 is World Hypnotism Day.  Consequently there will be a marked drop in blood pressure world wide, a collective sigh of relief will rival a Santa Anna wind as knotted muscles loosen, and world peace will seem possible.   Hypnosis practitioners will celebrate their art by offering [...]

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The season we just finished can be described as a season of wonders.  For Christians the wonder is the virgin birth of Jesus, for Jews the wonder is the miracle of the oil burning for eight days and for non religious people, the wonder might be that everyone survived all the stress.  
 
These wonders have [...]

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I spent the week-end in Santa Monica observing my eldest sons’ 40th birthday.  He elected to celebrate this momentous occasion by joining a six week long trapeze course so he could celebrate his birthday by hurtling through the air. The culminating event was a performance on the Santa Monica Pier and his father and I, in conjunction [...]

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