YOU WILL LEARN:Everything you need to know to achieve safer, easier and more comfortable birthTo explode the myth that pain is a necessary accompaniment to laborWhat’s wrong with labor as it exists with most other childbirth methodsTechniques of deep relaxation to help you eliminate the Fear-Tension-Pain SyndromeHow your body is naturally designed to conceive, nurture and birth your baby with ease and comfortTo create your body’s own natural relaxant, the only safe labor enhancementNatural ways to bring your body into labor without artificial chemical inductionHow you and your birthing companion can create a birthing environment that is calm, serene and joyful, rather than tense and stressful Gentle birthing techniques that allow you to breathe your baby into the world without the violence of hard physical pushingTo use your natural birthing instincts to birth your baby in a way that most mirrors the way that nature intended“My dream is that every woman, everywhere, will know the joy of a safe, satisfying birth for both her baby and herself—one she’ll not need to forget.”Marie F. Mongan, 1999______________________________Teaching mothers and birth companions techniques for safe and satisfying birthingthrough guided imagery, visualization, and special breathing.