The Hypno-Beginning method was created by Dr. Nathalie Fiset, a wonderful French-Canadian family physician, who has attended over 2200 births. She has combined her experience as a physician with her experience as a hypnotherapist and has created a flawless system that gives an expectant mother all the skills she needs to experience a peaceful, natural and comfortable birth.

Women in our western culture are continuously given the suggestion that having a baby is excruciatingly painful and even unnatural. This message is given through TV and movies, by doctors, and even by mothers who like to share their birthing war-stories with expectant women.

Women come fully equipped with the physiological, psychological and emotional tools needed to have a peaceful, safe and natural birth. The program teaches women how to utilize those tools. It also teaches women the tools they need to induce a natural anesthesia through the power of their own mind, which reduces, eliminates even, any discomfort during the birth. Also, a woman who uses hypnosis during birth often reduces her time in labor because she is deeply relaxed, which allows her body to do its natural work without tension or resistance.

If there is a true need for medical intervention, the Hypno-Beginning program also provides the skills needed to remain relaxed and to respond well to surgery or chemical intervention.

Equally important, training in the Hypno-Beginning method also gives the baby a stress-free, and most likely drug-free, start to his or her life. Parents and babies deserve to start their life together as a family in the most peaceful, joyful, safe and satisfying way possible, and this is the gift that Dr. Fiset has given to them through her Hypno-Beginning program.

For more information about Dr. Fiset and the Hypno-Beginning program please visit her website at www.hypno-beginning.com.

I now facilitate all of the group classes and private sessions for natural childbirth at Gracewinds Perinatal Services in Ballard. For more information about their services please visit their website at www.gracewindsperinatal.com.

For information about introductory lectures to this program please see the “Lectures & Workshops” page.