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Hypnosis for an Easy Pregnancy CD Set

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I am so excited that Hypnobabies has come out with this set for pregnancy. I used all these CD's, but I had to purchase them separately.

The Eliminate Nausea CD, is great for moms who feel sick during pregnancy. I found it helpful and have leant it to 2 friends who benefited as well.

Peaceful Sleep Now is by far my favorite of these CDs. I found it hard to sleep well during my pregnancies and was so happy to have this CD during my 3rd pregnancy. It really helped me fall asleep and sleep through the night. I did still get up to pee (baby still squished my bladder) but I was able to fall back to sleep.

The Affirmations were nice for keeping me feeling positive about my pregnancy and upcoming birth. As a VBAC mom that was extra helpful. But for any pregnant mom, staying positive is an important part of enjoying the experience.

I think this set is good for moms who want help in these areas during their pregnancy. It is also a great addition to the Hypnobabies Home Study program, which helps moms prepare for their Birth.

Moms who know they want to do the complete Hypnobabies program, or moms who are curious, but want to try it out first, this set is a great set for you!

I used Hypnobabies Pregnancy Affirmations from the very early days of my pregnancy. This helped a lot to ease my fears of miscarriage (due to some medical reasons, I have a higher-than-usual chance of miscarriage). The affirmations CD helped me trust my body, and rejoyce in the miracle of pregnancy and learn to visualize and expect the best. I actually started to beliece that my body was my friend, not my enemy! The affirmations reduced my fear and anxiety, and helped me feel more confident and calm. There are great suggestions like: "Pregnancy is natural, normal, healthy and safe... My changing body is radiantly beautiful... I eat nourishing food every day for my baby... my baby is safe within me now... Growing my baby is empowering for me... with every day that goes by, I feel more confident about my pregnancy... all decisions for my pregnancy are mine to make... I am strong, confident, assured and assertive" and so on. This made an amazing difference in my pregnancy. Even a few months after my baby was born (yes, healthy, happy, full-term, with a fabulous natural Hypnobabies birth), I still use some of these affirmations about confidence, choice, having a voice, and loving my body and taking care of myself.

The other CDs are amazing too - I especially love the sleep cd for expectant moms... it puts me out right away every time I listen to it, which is such a blessing with a little one needing my attention throughouot the night... using my 'peaceful sleep now' cue, I can drift right off to sleep again. An amazing, life-altering gift for any expecting friends, or the best gift you could buy for yourself or your partner!

This is a wonderful set of CDs. I ordered each of these individually when I used the Hypnobabies Home Study program in 2005. Peaceful Sleep Now is so wonderful, I still use it!!

Eliminate Nausea is a great way to calm those pregnancy nausea moments, and I have actually put on this CD when I was sick, even after having my baby.

Affirmations for pregnancy - these are so necessary in this day and age when everyone wants to share their birth "horror" stories, and every birth on TV is full of danger and drama.

This would be a great set for ANY pregnant woman, not only those using the Hypnobabies program. They also are a welcome suppliment to those HypnoMoms who are using the Hypnobabies program!

Insomnia has plagued me with all of my pregnancies. The Peaceful Sleep Now was such a wonderful tool! I found it so much easier to fall asleep and go back to sleep if I awoke during the night.

The affirmations were an excellent way to keep me feeling positive and confident about my pregnancies and births--which was fabulous!

For an easy, comfortable unmedicated birth I loved the Hypnobabies childbirth education set:

Hypnobabies Home Study Course for Expectant Mothers Plus 2 Bonus Cds

My husband purchased this set for us. We already had another set when he bought this one because we thought this would be more comprehensive. it is more comprehensive however I don't like that you can't start listening to the most important disk until your are 37-38weeks along. The other set we purchased you can listen to them at any time and I feel like they are much more helpful than this set.
I think this set is more helpful for women who are early on in pregnancy and are having a hard time with nausea or sleeping.
The other thing I don't like about the disks is they don't get into the relaxing part of the session until after 3-5 min of explanation about what the relaxation/hypnosis is trying to accomplish.
I usually try and play everything in a row to keep the relaxation going for a couple of hours and everytime the CD changes and the woman starts talking about that CD and what it's suppose to accomplish it abruptly causes me to come out of my relaxed state.

I think that once the relaxation part starts they are usefull but that first part frustrates me to no end.

This helped me a lot in my first trimester when I was very sick and nervous about what was going on in my pregnancy. It helped me to focus and relax and I do think the positive thoughts were helpful to hear. Recommended to nervous folks like me that tend to stress out when left to their own devices!

I have used all of these CDs with great success, but had to purchase them each separately. I am thrilled to see them now offered as a set for far less money than buying them individually! I will be recommending this set to every pregnant woman I know. It is priceless for a mom having her first baby, or her tenth baby!

Thanks to the "Eliminate Nausea Now" CD, I went from feeling like I was barely surviving the first trimester to actually enjoying it!

The Joyful Birth Affirmations led me from thinking about my upcoming birth with fear and trepidation to looking forward to it with confidence and joyful expectation. What a stress reliever that was!

I love how clearly the Hypnobabies Home Study was explained on the "Hypnobabies Hypnosis for Childbirth For a Joyful Natural Birth" CD, so I could decide if it was the right approach for me. And once I began using the Hypnobabies Home Study program, I was able to lend that CD to people who were curious about my approach, or who would be with me during the birth and needed to understand more about my approach. It even has an example relaxation script on it, so they could give it a try and understand more about how I was preparing, and now perfectly normal and easy self-hypnosis truly is.

I still use the techniques from the sleep CD to get to sleep quickly after getting up at night with the baby, so there is no question that that CD has been priceless!

So far, I've tried the sleep cd and the "bring on the baby" cd. I have not listened to the others so I cannot comment on their effectiveness. As far as the sleep cd, it seems to help my husband out a lot more than me. I was the one who desperately needed some rest so we thought we'd give it a try. He was out right away and slept peacefully through the night (which is funny because several times throughout the cd she talks about incorporating your baby's movements into your relaxation to help you fall deeper asleep -- and since I'm still pregnant he's not feeling baby move!) but I had a bit more trouble. I felt relaxed after listening to it, but it didn't make me sleep through the night. We've tried it several times and the results have been the same. The other cd I've used is the Birthing Day Affirmations which is supposed to help bring on labor. Well, I started listening to it a week ago (it claims it's so effective you cannot listen before 38 weeks because it WILL bring on baby) and so far, I'm still pregnant. It's more likely that my baby just is too comfy in there, but either way, the cd didn't do what it said it would. Again, it helped me to relax because the lady speaking has a very calming voice -- but I want to have my baby and it isn't helping with that.

Reality and fantasy are far apart. Hypnobabies, with all of its `testamonials' essentially acts as erotica for pregnant women. It sells an ideal, which you may be lucky enough to achieve, or you may not be. To assume that the ease of your birth is entirely in your control is naïve at best. Rather than wasting my time on such fantasies, I would recommend practicing yoga, for a relaxed state of mind during pregnancy, and an excercised body, and also practically informing yourself about your choices before and after birth. Don't buy into this propaganda, and be shocked when reality hits.