HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method, 4th Edition

A Natural Approach to Safer, Easier, More Comfortable Birthing

By: Marie F. Mongan M.Ed. M.Hy.

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

HypnoBirthing has gained momentum around the globe as a positive and empowering method of childbirth. Here's why: HypnoBirthing helps women to become empowered by developing an awareness of the instinctive birthing capability of their bodies. It greatly reduces the pain of labor and childbirth; frequently eliminates the need for drugs; reduces the need for caesarian surgery or other doctor-controlled birth interventions; and it also shortens birthing and recovery time, allowing for better and earlier bonding with the baby, which has been proven to be vital to the mother-child bond. What's more, parents report their infants sleep better and feed more easily when they haven't experienced birth trauma.

HypnoBirthing founder Marie Mongan knows from her own four births that it is not necessary for childbirth to be a terribly painful experience. In this audiobook, she shows women how the Mongan Method works and how parents can take control of the greatest and most important event of their lives.

So, why is birth such a traumatic event for so many women? And why do more than 40 percent of births now end in caesarian section, the highest percentage in history? The answer is simple: because our culture teaches women to fear birth as a painful and unsettling experience. Fear causes three physical reactions in the body - tightening of the muscles, reduced blood flow to the birthing muscles, and the release of certain hormones - which increase the pain and discomfort of childbirth. This is not hocus-pocus - this is science.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©1992, 1998, 2005, 2015 Marie F. Mongan (P)2018 Audible, Inc.

Amazing book

Amazing book. But I would recommend that you take a hypnobirthing class too, with a certified hypnobirthing professional to really prepare yourself for birth.

Woman are magical!

it's sad to see all the terrible reviews about Marie's course book. Her journey to bring instinctual birthing back to woman is a personal journey meant to inform and inspire others about natural, calm birth and HypnoBirthing techniques.

The book goes hand in hand with the HypnoBirthing birth education course. The program consists of 5 weekly 2.5 hour classes.

If you would like to learn more or find an educator in your area, goto www.hypnobirthing.com

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Beautiful, enlightening, thorough book. Must have hard copy for highlighting!! life changing thought process.

Nice but not alone

nice book, start from chapter 13, read it with an instructor guide. otherwise it serves more a mindfullness book, not the technique itself.

Great book! A lot of helpful information

Great resource for parents, especially first timers :) We have this on paperback, but the audio version allowed my husband to follow along with me. It has been a huge eye opener for him.

Great Start

This book was super informative. Great place to start your adventure into hypnobirthing. Lots of content.

You can have it all, I listened twice.

I finished this title and I will say it's all there. when I started I got about 3 chapters in and wondered if I had wasted my money buying this title and read through the reviews. They are mixed on this title, some loving it and others hating it.

However, it all makes sense if you actually finish the book. The beginning chapters help build confidence in the program and the later chapters (starting around Ch.16) have techniques that you'll have to self study and practice if you want to get right (you'll want to take notes at that point). You'll need both! She also mentions to take a class which I will be doing as best practice because if you can, you will want to be as confident and prepared as possible.

Happy listening and births to all the future parents out there! Don't forget the attached PDFs.

You can really have it all, the birth of your dreams, the connection, the calmness all without pain and fear. Take your time with this relatively short read.

Effective

I took the recommendation to only listen to chapters 13 and after as it focuses on how to do the method. I found it effective during birth and something I was able to achieve during birth.

I didn’t enjoy the sections by the author that felt like she was trying to convince the reader of why to pick the method. I’m a second time mom and had already picked this method so I felt they didn’t apply to me.

Calming and interesting

Many suggested to skip to chapter 7 or chapter 13 to access faster the chapters with the techniques.
However I decided to listen to all of it as I was curious, and I am happy I did listen to all of it. The author states that Hypnobirthing is more a philosophy than a technique, so I think that the introductory chapters make sense. The whole book provided interesting info and suggestions to make the pregnancy and birth experience as relaxed as possible. Many concepts were very similar for me to what I heard during the pre-birth classes, but probably because I'm part of a midwives-run group, I think this would be a very good book to get a new perspective if you've only been in contact with a doctor or hospital so far.

Choose for yourself what's relevant!

I agree that the techniques are quickly explained and it would have been better to have the audio tracks as part of this Audiobook! As an alternative I searched online and managed to find some of them on YouTube and Spotify.

Amazing book!

Must read before having a baby! Having my 3rd baby and I didn’t know I was going to learn so much with this book.