The Hypnobirthing Book

Publisher's Summary

Childbirth can be an empowering and positive experience that you treasure for the rest of your life. KG Hypnobirthing teaches simple and gentle techniques that have a profound effect on you and on your baby.KG Hypnobirthing can reduce the need for pain relief and shorten labor, and you are more likely to experience a natural, calm, comfortable birth. It actively involves the father or partner; you will both learn skills to instill confidence about the birth and your role as parents.

The Hypnobirthing Book and audio relaxations are a complete antenatal preparation which guides you to achieve the birth you want -- for you and for your baby.

©2012, 2014 Katharine Graves (P)2017 Katharine Graves

Read differently

I would've preferred a woman reading the audio. The way I see it there's absolutely no way a man can comprehend what we women go through. However I did enjoy the book

8 of 9 people found this review helpful

A man is narrating, such a female needed voice!

Who is the geuniess that give a man this job??? it's so distracting when a man is explaining how to give birth and prepare your body for it!

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Jarring Narration

I dont know why the publishers thought it would be a good idea to have a man narrate this book. I found his voice to be jarring and abrupt. I think a soft, peaceful female voice would have been far more palatable. I also think the book took to long to get to the point. Too much fluff.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Why would you have a man narrate a birthing book?

Seriously, why? The last thing I want to hear is another old man telling me how to have a baby. It’s superficial, but it changes the experience of the book.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Extremely useful and full of information

This book is so fantastic! It gave me so much information that I wasn’t aware of and I know it will help with my delivery. Thanks for writing this!

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

first time mom

I'm going to implement all steps given I have confidence this will work. very excited

great read

great book. I liked the guided imagery parts the most. wished there was more of that. the author quotes lots of research and evidence for her claims which make her arguments credible and just make sense. it gave me a lot of confidence going into childbirth. highly recommend!

Informative and Helpful

This is the best childbirth education book I have read so far. Its packed with information without being overwhelming. It is written intelligently without being too wordy and while being understandable. Some programs Ive found to be and numbingly boring and repetitive but this one is to the point and gives you the information you need to have a well informed natural birth.

I liked it, but it made me fall asleep lol

It's a really good technic and I intend to apply it, but the female voice made me sooo sleepy, it was hard to pay attention, kept going back

Very helpful

Listened to this prior to giving birth to my son and found it helped me relax when trying to fall asleep in the third trimester.

A must for all pregnant people and their support person

I loved this book. Started listening to it at 34 weeks and really think it will be beneficial to my birth
So many good tips
I just wish the hypno recordings were labelled and listed seperately / easily accessible

6 of 7 people found this review helpful

Female voice to pitchy and anoying

The content of the book is good but I could not relax to the female voice. The way the voice goes up and down with pitchy high sounds is so un-natural to me. The way she talks makes me think more about where she puts the effort in each word rather than the context of what each sentence means. The man has a much more pleasant reading voice.

This has nothing to do with gender, I have been listening to another hypnobirthing book with a female narrator and she has a very comfortable and calming voice.

I would reccommend recording the book again with a different narrator for the female voice.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Not the right book for me

I find Katherines' voice haunting, I'm glad most of it is narrated by someone else. It's a good start to hypnobirthing, and gives you plenty to think about and discuss with your midwife and partner but parts like how to say "no" in various ways is patronising, I don't know anybody who is that much of a pushover or any medical professional who's that forceful. I'm going to listen to a different book now until I find the one that speaks to me, we're all different so just give it a go, like I said you'll get something from the book/hypnobirthing just wasn't for me this author

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Brilliant if you want to take charge of your birth

This book should be essential for both parents wanting to understand the holistic birthing journey of it. My girlfriend has already gotten a lot out of it. We have the hard copy with the audio book and it’s changed how we will approach the birth. Everything you need to know about your choices for birthing

Needs to be re-recorded.

The content of this book is great but it really really really needs to be recorded again the sound is awful. His voice his deep and harsh on the speakers and her voice is high and scratchy! Very hard to do the relaxation techniques because of it.

Voice is terrible

The content is awesome, I also have the physical book. But it is a man reading with a very tough voice. Not nice, as a pregnant woman, I don't feel involved or connected with the audible of this book.

Difficult to follow without table of contents

I found really hard to follow this audiobook. There's no table of contents so it's hard to remember which chapter(s) had useful relaxation practices that I may want to listen to again. Chapter numbers are not aligned i.e. the narrator says chapter 9 and the track is chapter 11. The cover led me to think that audio tracks were included but they are mostly embedded within chapters. I also didn't particularly like the male voice, it was odd especially when he read passages referring to his own birth experience... it would have been more credible if read by a female actor.

loved it

had the book alongside the course for 1st pregnancy and had this as a refresher

amazing would highly recommend

really interesting & the relaxations were fantastic. So pleased my doula gave it to me as I feel more prepared to give birth