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Hypnosis for Birth,
Peace at Birth

As a trained birth hypnotherapy practitioner, Gabrielle combines her Labour of Love childbirth educational techniques with hypnosis philosophy, resulting in implementation of positive birthing education that assists in achieving an empowered, relaxing and calm birth.

Gabrielle is also available in assiting women to debrief and clear out previous negative and traumatic birth experiences, in order to create a more positive experience next time around.

 

Hypnosis for Birth - Private Sessions or CD sales (see below)

Gabrielle is now available for Private Hypnosis for Birth Sessions.

For a 'Hypnosis for Birth' 3 hour session. Please contact Gabrielle for more information.

Click here for current testimonials.

Hypnosis for birth, teaches a woman and her partner how to release all prior programming about birth, establishing confidence in how to trust her body to birth naturally and normally, and trust in it’s ability to do the job it is designed to do methodology.

 

1. Peace at birth – ‘completely letting go’- is designed for women in labour, who wants to go straight down into a place of calm, surrender and relaxation. This script can be played over and over to really assist women during any stage of their labour to let go and focus within.

2. Affirmations – can be repeated out loud or listen to on the recordings on a daily basis as many times as possible. Really start to believe what you are hearing and reading.

The emphasis of this programme is to assist the release of all prior programming about labour and birth which can then enable a woman and her partner to establish an inner confidence and trust in the labouring and birthing process. It is possible to create a labour of love so that the act of birthing can be a wonderul experience where fear has no part to play.

Price: 29.95

To purchase this wonderful CD, please visit the products page.

1. Pregnancy Relaxation - going within – a 15 min relaxation that can be listen to everyday to assist in deep relaxation, visualisation and breathing techniques in preparation for birth.

2. Empowering yourself for the birth ahead‘creating a labour of love’ Is designed to take the listener on a journey of ‘imagineering’, looking ahead into the unknown and visualising the birth of your baby. This script can be listened to once to twice a week.

This programme is designed to teach safe and effective hypnosis techniques that can be practised during pregnancy in preparation for labour and birth. Through learning how to relax and remain calm, women can gain confidence in trusting and believing in their body and the job it is designed to do.

Price: 29.95

To purchase this wonderful CD, please visit the products page.

 

NOW AVAILABLE
‘HYPNOSIS FOR BIRTH’ CDs & 80 Page Home Study Workbook
to purchase the 2CD + Workbook package, click here.

Through regularly listening to these CDs women become skilled in relaxation and breathing techniques reducing the fear associated with childbirth, the intensity of labour sensations, and need for medical assistance.

Through learning how to relax and remain calm, women gain great confidence in trusting and believing in their body and the job it is designed to do.

‘Women are incredibly strong during childbirth
they have just forgotten that they are’

This highly effective labour and birthing preparation programme has been created for women and their partners to:- inform, prepare and impart a positive educational philosophy in an empowered way.

The emphasis of this programme has been placed on assisting the release of all prior programming about labour and birth, which can then enable a women and her partner to establish an inner confidence and trust in the labouring and birthing process. This ‘trust’ and ‘belief’ in her body to do this job of labouring, opening up and birthing, in a comfortable, normal and natural way is paramount to birthing in a calm and relaxed way.

Creating a ‘labour of love’ is possible, and the act of birthing can be a wonderful experience where fear has no part to play. All that is needed, is a strong belief in oneself in which this ‘hypnosis for birth’ educational programme provides on an emotionally, mental and physically level.

I believe every woman has the ability to birth naturally, however so many are fearful of not being able to cope with the intensity of the contractions. Others are not educated in an open and honest way about the natural alternatives to pain relief and deep guided hypnosis, breathing and relaxation.

My wish for you is that through listening to this programme, you open yourself up and tap in to what is possible to create and work towards when preparing for your birth experience. And that your labour and birth journey be the most empowering, calm and loving experience possible – relax and ‘TRUST’

About the Affirmations CD
‘Affirmations are one of the most important ways of telling yourself what you believe to be true and real’

New brain research shows us that the more we think the same thoughts, say the same things, write the same things and do the same things the more neural pathways or networks are formed in the brain to make it become a ‘normal’ process. With enough repetitions the networks become stronger and stronger until they become the dominant process, the new paradigm. This is the beginning of positive conditioning.
Terry Power and Dr Peter Dingle
Goal Getting -The science of achieving goals

The affirmations on this CD need to be repeated out loud or listen to on the recordings on a daily basis as many times as possible. Really start to believe what you are hearing and reading, get emotionally involved, get excited!

Gabrielle Targett BA Phys Ed, Independent Childbirth Educator (NACE),
Reg, Hypnobirthing® Practitioner / Advanced Certification of Hypnosis (WAHA)
Author of : - A labour of Love -an Australian guide to natural childbirth.

About A Labour of Love
"Gabrielle Targett has assisted me and hundreds of women around Australia through her Labour of Love programme to have a natural, calm and empowered birth experience."

Testimonials

Hypnosis Testimonial and Birth Story
Jody Blake Birth Stories

My name is Jody Blake and I have tow little boys- Kyle 3 and a half and Logan 4 months. I had both my boys at the Family Birthing centre at King Edward Memorial hospital. I choose there because I didn’t want any intervention at all unless absolutely necessary.

My births were completely different, so different I could never have imagined then to be this way.

My pregnancy with Kyle was uneventful; I only had a small amount of nausea which disappeared within 12 weeks. I walked approximately 10 kilometres everyday and worked until I was 38 weeks pregnant. It was a wonderful time and pregnancy.

The labour itself was fast and furious and all over and done with in five and half hours which sounds so great. Unbeknown to me I was five and a half centimetres dilated without even having one single contraction and then there I was suddenly holding my son. I hardly remembered anything about the birth except the pain and the fear I was feeling. I could not believe I had survived it and thought that I definitely could not go through that experience ever again. I guess you could say I was traumatised due to the speed in which my body laboured and expelled my baby out into this world!

I know lots of women who would love this type of experience, but it does come at a cost sometimes.

This was a huge dilemma for me as I had always wanted at least two children. In my head I felt very fearful and trapped and agonized over whether I should try to have another child or not. I knew in my heart that if I fell pregnant again that I wanted to have a completely natural experience with no medical interventions or drugs, but at the same time I was frightened about doing the whole natural labour process again.

Finally, I came to terms with the fact that I was going to have another baby and fell pregnant and realised I had to find someone that could help me through this dilemma and fear I had brewing within me. This is when Gaby came into my life. I had read her book and felt very strongly that she was the one person who was going to be able to help me achieve getting through this labour and birth naturally, in a positive and calm way, this time around.

Lucky for me Gaby lived in the same state as me and not to far away so I knew there would be this opportunity to work with her. When I felt the time was right I rang Gaby and we organised a 3 hour hypnosis session. At last I felt like I was moving in the right direction so that I could gain some perspective on my past event and move forward in a positive way. Well I can tell you, I cannot believe the results!

When I finally came to sit on Gaby’s couch she asked me to describe my first experience. I told her that previously when I had talked about it I had had panic attacks and felt very uncomfortable. I truly was in a bad way, however Gaby reassured me that by talking about it I was debriefing myself and looking at this experience as a past event that is over and done with. My biggest problem was every time I went back to that experience in my head I became terrified about my imminent experience just around the corner.

By the end of the three hours I walked out of the session with a completely different outlook on my first experience and felt so excited about my impending labour. Who would believe that!

During this second pregnancy I had nausea and vomiting constantly for twenty five weeks, which was just so debilitating as it would go on for 24 hours each and every day and night. However, the hypnosis completely alleviated this as well, and when ever I felt unwell I would do my deep breathing techniques and listen to Gaby’s hypnosis CD and I would feel so much better and re-energised. I really don’t know how I would have coped if I had not learnt these skills.

Finally, after going over my estimated due date by thirteen days, my waters broke at 9pm on a Thursday night. I don’t think I have ever been so grateful for event beginning. People were starting to whisper in my ear about inducing me and I was trying to stay positive and not buy into this panic and pressure. The cut off day for my birthing at the birth centre was 14 days over so I knew I was cutting it very fine with my pregnancy gestation.

My labour was a lot longer than the first, which was exactly what I wanted, however the contractions would start and stop, go to 2 to 3 minutes apart then disappear. I was not perturbed by this, as I just listened to Gaby’s CD and felt calm and relaxed. I also used the TENS machine which helped me immensely to stay relaxed and positive. I felt so empowered and strong and in control (to a degree!) of what was going on this time around. I know Gaby says being in control is the wrong way to go about labour and that it is about surrender and staying out of your head and just allowing the process to take it’s course. I definitely was doing this during labour thanks to learning relaxation skills, how to breath through the contractions and how to ‘let go’ through using hypnosis from Gaby.

As I look back and write this story I can honestly say that this was the most beautiful, amazing birth experience. I ended up water birthing with no interventions or drugs in a calm and relaxed way.

If I never have any more children now it would be perfectly OK as I feel I have reached the pinnacle of what natural birth is all about. I birthed with no fear but instead feeling strong, confident and excited.

Preparation is everything and I highly recommend that all pregnant women listen and use Gaby’s techniques and hypnosis CD’s before giving birth, it will change the way you think and feel about labour.

Jody Blake 2008

CD testimonial
Tracey Crawcour (Sydney gal)
Written by Karen a friend of Tracey’s

Tracey had read your book and had your two CD’s. She went into labour at home and listened to your CD’s for hours, using them to guide her through her contractions.

She remained calm and relaxed and eventually called the birth centre to say she was ready to come in. She unfortunately spoke a very grumpy midwife who was quite gruff and sounded annoyed and said that Tracey sounded like she wasn’t even in established labour yet because her voice was ‘too calm’

Tracey then defended herself and explained how she had been on all fours throwing up into a saucepan and she definitely felt like she was in established labour and needed to come in to the hospital. The midwife eventually said oh alright you can come in, but if you are not in established labour we will be sending you home. Tracey felt disappointed that this woman clearly didn’t believe she was in labour!

When she arrived the midwife did a VE and found Tracey to be 5 centimetres dilated! So much for not being in established labour!!!!! The midwife was clearly taken back as she said ‘it is hard to believe given that you are so relaxed and calm’

As soon as she could she put her ipod back on and put in her earphones and went on listening to Gaby Targett’s voice on her CD’s. The only time Tracey felt like she lost her rhythm of labour was when someone came in and asked her a question, interrupting her deep hypnotic state. She went on to birth very calmly with no problems.

Tracey said to say she is so grateful for being able to listen to your CD’s and does not know what she would have done with out them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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