Fear Of Childbirth Ireland
Hi, my name is Paul Hunter. If you’ve been googling “fear of childbirth” or “fear of getting pregnant”, you’ve come to the right page.
I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist, CBT Practitioner and Life Coach. For the past fifteen years, I have been helping the women of Cork, Kerry and further afield to overcome their fear of childbirth.
Obviously, because biological males cannot get pregnant, this is a fear that is solely a fear that only women experience, although there have been rare cases in the transgender community.
Of the women that I have helped with this fear, they split into two groups:
- girls or women who have never given birth before and are terrified by the unknown
- women who have given birth before and, perhaps, had a really painful experience and are terrified of it being that bad again, or even worse.
Signs You Might Have A Fear Of Childbirth
- Have you avoided sex for fear of getting pregnant?
- Are you pregnant but just not excited about it?
- Are you insistent upon epidural or caesarian?
- Are you convinced the experience will be "bad"?
- Do you keep telling yourself you won't cope?
- Have you tried to hide the pregnancy?
Is It Normal To Be Scared Of Childbirth?
It is totally natural to fear any activity that could cause pain, and, in fairness, it’s pretty unusual to have a completely pain-free birth. In cases where the fear gets out of proportion, there can be other personality traits or anxiety related problems complicating issues, such as
- if you previously have had a problem with needing to be “in control” of everything (sometimes called a “control freak”)
- suffering from OCD, or prone to obsessing about certain things
- pre-existing fears such as fear of pain, fear of blood, fear of doctors, fear of hospitals, fear of needles, etc.
Overcome Fear Of Childbirth With Hypnosis In Cork
As with any fear, when you come to see me, we will focus on a number of aims:
- we’ll dissolve the fear using tried and tested hypnosis techniques for fear removal.
- your unconscious mind will be trained to automatically only think good or happy thoughts about childbirth
- you’ll get a personalised self hypnosis recording (appox. 25 minutes length) to listen to every night at home which will convince your mind that childbirth will be a relatively pleasant experience which you can easily go through
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