The Calm Birth Method (Revised Edition): Your Complete Guide to a Positive Hypnobirthing Experience

by Suzy Ashworth, Liz Stanford

Discover tried-and-tested techniques to help you relax during labour, including mindfulness, breathing exercises and visualization, for an empowering, positive birth.

Now with two new chapters, this brand-new edition of The Calm Birth Method will show you how you can make birth a gentle and enjoyable experience. This authoritative guide will help you to build confidence in your body and its abilities and offers practical techniques to support and prepare you. Walking you and your birth partner through the whole process of birth preparation, Suzy Ashworth and Liz Stanford


Take the power back into your own hands so that you can learn to trust your body and look forward to welcoming your child into the world.

304 pages, Paperback

Published November 8, 2022

Reviews

[Rebecca Perkins · Rating 1 out of 5]

So this revised version of the book includes a whole lot of references to “pregnant people” and even “chest feeding” throughout, which for me, was very alienating and diminishing of my womanhood and role of being a mother. The vast majority of people who give birth are actually fine with being referred to as women and mothers. This book doesn’t have to cater to everyone’s triggers… because you’d end up ditching a whole lot of useful stuff because someone might be offended.
I bought this book so I could prepare for giving birth, and be encouraged in my ability as an empowered woman to do what my body was made to do not so I could be reduced to an unsexed vessel. The value of the book is undermined by this revision.
Perhaps that is why it’s been rated so low