@article{Weigens_2023, title={Hypnosis in Childbirth: Beyond Pain Control}, volume={6}, url={https://ijwpc.mcgill.ca/article/view/195}, DOI={10.26443/ijwpc.v6i1.195}, abstractNote={<p>Pain control in childbirth is a special case because childbirth is not an illness. We are obliged to treat it differently from the pain of disease.</p><p> </p><p>Hypnosis can complement the best prenatal preparation.  Most women whose bodies and minds are prepared for labor, who are adequately supported throughout, and whose self-esteem is intact have safer, more comfortable childbirth and considerably less need of drugs.</p><p> </p><p>Hypnotic suggestion and imagery begun early in pregnancy help a woman to work with and assist her own physiologic processes. With hypnosis, a woman can be helped to transcend many limits of expectation and to participate fully in one of life’s sublime dramas.</p>}, number={1}, journal={The International Journal of Whole Person Care}, author={Weigens, David}, year={2023}, month={Feb.}, pages={26–35} }