Gina Cox-Roberts used hypnosis to conceive daughter Ember
By Woman’s Editor Tracey O’Sullivan
It was three long years for Gina Cox-Roberts as she tried to conceive a baby of her own. She desperately wanted to have a child and after working years as a doula was aware of many different ways to help make it happen.
She tried hypnosis and found herself celebrating being pregnant the very next month.
It encouraged the very devoted mum to one-year-old Ember to look into how hypnosis could be of use during the process of having a family.
As a doula she had supported many women through childbirth and knew that pain could cause the greatest concern and how much of a difference it made to women to have the kind of birth experience they enjoyed.
“I know people had heard of using hypnosis to stop smoking but I don’t know if everyone knows that hypnosis can be used to help giving birth,” said Gina during an interview at her home in Arleston.
“Research has shown it can help to reduce pain and medical intervention in childbirth, overcome fear, shorten labour and help parents be more relaxed and in control.”
Gina Cox-Roberts is now a trained natal hypnotherapy practitioner who had been running birth preparation courses in Birmingham until she had a baby herself.
She moved to Telford in August and will be starting to run local courses in November so that expectant mums and their partners in Shropshire can learn the techniques for themselves.
Gina used natal hypnotherapy to help her conceive and then to give birth to her own daughter last year: “We had been trying for over three years to have a child when I decided to use natal hypnotherapy to help and amazingly I became pregnant the very next month.
“I spent the rest of my pregnancy teaching others how to use the techniques to help them in their own births, as well as practising them myself. When I went into labour I knew how to help my body to relax and how to manage the sensations. Although it was hard work – my daughter took 27 hours to arrive – I felt in control throughout and I didn’t need any pain relief.
“In fact, I really enjoyed it! Having now experienced how effective the techniques can be for myself I can’t wait to start helping other women and their partners prepare for birth in a way that is truly empowering as well as blissfully relaxing.
“It should be a wonderful experience and I want to be able to help people to achieve that. I know from personal experience what a great difference it can make.”
The course teaches mums and their partners simple yet effective hypnosis techniques to help them have a more positive and manageable birth experience and is ideal for couples between 28 and 38 weeks pregnant.
Gina will explain what hypnosis is and how it works with birth, plus teach deep relaxation, pain management, visualisation and massage techniques. The course also helps the birth partners be more prepared, confident and skilled, helping them both remain calm during the birth.
“Partners have a key role to play and they are very much a part of this and included throughout the process,” said Gina.
The first course will be held on November 1-2 in Wellington and additional courses will be run approximately monthly from then on.
14 Comments
So she went under a Hypnotist’s trance and found herself pregnant!! hmmmmm.
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Coincidence. She could equally have tried cheese on toast for the very first time and conceived the next month.
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Perhaps the opposite could be the solution to teenage preganancies? i.e. if teenagers go to a hypnosis session to believe they WONT get pregnant, then thats the problem solved?
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Many women feel stressed about trying to become pregnant. Relaxation techniques help reduce stress and create a more welcoming physical environment for fertilization. Research shows that women undergoing in vitro fertilization who use hypnosis to reduce stress double their fertilization rate from 17% to 34%.
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You can get an electric device to help you get pregnant too. Only it doesn’t work if you’ve got one of the many real-life medical conditions that make it difficult or impossible to conceive. Like blocked fallopian tubes or a zero sperm count. Stories like this just trivialise infertility and increase the pressure on the one couple in 6 out there struggling to start a family.
I am very proud to be an adoptive mum, if I’d known back then what I know now I’d have cut my losses and adopted right away.
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agree cheese on toast or welsh rarebit can produce results, but not heard of them making one pregnant
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devon: Thats a relief, I can eat cheese on toast again. But is it safe to use electrical devices (comment 5)? - I am wearing rubber gloves whilst typing this!
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If there’s one place in the country where women DON’T need any help getting pregnant then that’s Telford. I’m afraid she’s barking up the wrong tree there!
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FAO ‘Katie’….. How *dare* you say that this trivialises infertility!! Gina states that she tried to get pregnant for 3 years prior to trying hypnotherapy…. How is that trivialising things? For any couple to go through what Gina and her partner have been through to bring a life into this world, and then try something different and ultimately succeed…this should be celebrated. She is not stating that hypnotherapy is the one-stop-shop resolution to infertility…. she’s just stating what she believes helped her conceive.
People need to stop being so damn narrow minded out there.
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Out of interest would this work for a male as well?
believe and you will concieve
If any male believes enough they could be on the way to becoming a billionaire.
First male to concieve a child
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i have a notion maltesers might work, this is possibly why mars might be trying to rename another of our favourite sweeties to mars planets
opal fruits-starburst, marathon-snickers etc is this another usa plot to aid conception or just a new conception in marketing confectionery. either way no one not even the yanks are renaming maltesers. the fight starts here. hence maltesers with a figure like yours?
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I often believe that I am young, rich, good looking and can sing. I dont use hypnosis, I use alchohol. I understand that alcohol is responsible for many pregnancies aswell and is cheaper than IVF.
However when I wake up I find that I cant sing.
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Lucy W you are a philosopher! I have three sons without any help bar a few too many glasses of red wine andlack of will power hic
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If you knew her you may begin to understand the amount of difficulties she has faced with fertility. Years of pain, struggle and hard work took her through a range of human emotions I would not wish on anyone. Yet if you felt this sort of agony, despair & determination, for years and after trying every approach possible I think you would know how miraculous it is to still find hope enough to believe. To work through all of those emotions and come through massive transformation is a process that takes huge belief, strength and hope (regardless of the result). I hope we are all brave enough to face our own stuff.
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