Blessed: Hypnobirthing and Meditation App for a Positive Birthing
Reduce your stress during pregnancy and be confident during labor.
Reduce your stress during pregnancy and be confident during labor.
Follow a dedicated audio program made by certified hypnotists with extensive hypnobirthing experience to prepare for a positive birth.
Listen to guided meditations, hypnosis, and sleep stories to fall asleep easily.
While contractions are tracked, you'll be coached with breathing exercises, relaxation techniques, and guided meditation to ease your birth experience.
Practiced by millions of women during their pregnancy, including celebrities like Jessica Alba, Angelina Jolie, and Kate Middleton, hypnobirthing is a set of hypnosis and techniques to prepare for labor in a painless and fearless manner.
Hypnobirthing doesn't require any particular belief system or prior experience. Working with hypnosis and meditation techniques creates a state of deep focus. Hypnosis is about following instructions and focusing your mind, yet as you enter hypnosis, it becomes very relaxing.
Your mind becomes quiet and your body becomes very relaxed, which is useful for the birthing process. Hypnobirthing teaches you simple and specific self-hypnosis, relaxation, and breathing techniques for a better birth.
It depends. If you fall asleep every time you listen to the audios, then lying down or listening to them at bedtime is the wrong time to be tuning in.
Lying down is a precursor to sleep, and sleep is not hypnosis. So if you find you're falling asleep then change your posture and sit up. If you're using a comfy chair and you are still falling asleep, use a straight-backed chair or change the time of day you're listening to the audios and keep your eyes open.
Hypnosis is most effective when you're focused and actively listening to the suggestions.
Prenatal stress has been associated with the risk of a wide range of issues. These include both neurodevelopmental and physical problems, like anxiety, ADHD, and lower cognitive development on one hand, and diseases such as asthma on the other. Of course, these are issues that a child can take with them into adulthood.
Aside from prenatal stress, at birth stress can mean that your baby has a lower Apgar score, which is a measure of how well they're doing immediately after birth, and then five minutes later. Stress can mean that your baby doesn't feed particularly well, they may find it difficult to sleep, and/or they may cry continuously. Plus, they may have difficulty breathing if they experience stress or a traumatic birth.
Babies born using hypnobirthing techniques generally will have a higher Apgar score. They tend to be calmer, feed better, sleep well, and experience less trauma, and that's because they are calmly breathed into the world gently, at their own pace.
Our hypnobirthing app is available on the Apple App Store in English, French, and Spanish. We're working hard to help future mothers remove their fears and pain to make labor wonderful, thanks to meditation and hypnobirthing.
