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Summary: Excellent results
Review: During my first pregnancy/labor/delivery I used your tape "Body Centered Hypnosis," along with the book ..with great success - I delivered without pain medication in 4 hours with 45 minutes of pushing.from message board post, Dec. 20000: at Gayle Peterson's "An Easier Chidlbirth" message baord at parentsplace.com
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Summary: Excellent results
Review: During my first pregnancy/labor/delivery I used your tape "Body Centered Hypnosis," along with the book ..with great success - I delivered without pain medication in 4 hours with 45 minutes of pushing. from message board post, Dec. 20000: at Gayle Peterson's "An Easier Chidlbirth" message baord at parentsplace.com
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Summary: Not relaxing!
Review: I agree with the other reviewer from Maine. The speaker's voice is very annoying. She keeps saying, "go deeper, deeper down," with an amusingly nasal sound on the "deeper" and a harsh pronunciation of d-OW-n. She also gets loud and excited - one night when I was very tired, I fell asleep listening to the tape. I awoke with a start and nearly fell off the couch as the speaker was describing a ride down a sliding board - "DOWN you go!" This tape developed no deeper bond between me and my baby than already exists, and it certainly didn't relax any of my anxieties about childbirth.
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Summary: not relaxing at all
Review: I agree with the others who found the tape extremely annoying. It may have had good things to say, but I could not get past the woman's voice or inflections. Just when I was starting to think about relaxing, she would say something so distracting or annoying I was snapped back to the present. I never made it through either side of the tape, but instead, threw it away.
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Summary: Labor #2 only 2 hours due to this tape
Review: I had read an article about using hypnosis as a technique for getting through labor. After a 24 hour labor with 3 hours of pushing with my first I was desperate to try anything (breathing through it is a joke!) I fell asleep every night with this tape. Yes, her voice is annoying but because of that it stays with you. Everything she said came back to me during labor. If you absolutely cannot listen to her voice, get her Easier Childbirth book. She has the text in there and you can either make your own tape or have a friend tape it. Regardless, the book is invaluable too. I just found out today that I am pregnant with #3 and the first thing I did was reorder the tape and book because I gave the originals to a friend when I thought that I was done having children.
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Summary: My wife used this tape with great success....
Review: My wife used this tape and I was able to listen and help her through the pain of contractions by using the imagery of the ocean waves making it safely to shore. It helped me, as well as her, to focus on getting through the contractions and resting, in between. I highly recommend this tape to all pregnant women and their partners.
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Summary: The cadence on this tape simulates labor, abrupt, powerful
Review: Please note that the cadence on this tape simulates the intensity of contractions. Music would detract from the necessary interuption that contractions represent experientially. Prior to labor, it is important for a woman to practice relaxing in the midst of intensity, which is what this tape allows. Use it wisely. Be ready to meet the contractions, rather than merely relax. See my book, An Easier Childbirth, for discussion on releasing at the height of a contraction vs. relaxing. This tape will prepare you for realistically dealing with labor contractions, relaxing in between, but learning to confront, rather than retreat from the contractions. Many women have found it empowering, once they allow for this reality. Afterwards, many women I work with, have commented on how helpful it was. Hang in there. Labor is not relaxing...And relaxation alone does not get you through the intensity of contractions at their peak. Adapting to the intensity does! This is what this tape is about. Use it in conjunction with the book preparation, "An Easier Childbirth" and you will not be disappointed.
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Summary: A Little Background Music, Please
Review: The goal of this cassette is to assist pregnancy and childbirth with relaxation techniques and guided mental imagery. Relaxing it is not. The sound quality is poor, doing nothing to diminish the pops, hisses, and breathing inherent in recording the human voice. There is no background music to help with this either. I found both the pitch and inflection of the speaker's voice to be extremely unnerving and annoying. Several times, the speaker becomes VERY loud and screechy, ruining any hope of relaxation and jolting the listener into a heightened state of tension. This is not the recommended way to end a self-hypnotic state. With a professional speaker, a good sound mixer, and a little music, I think the guided imagery would be very helpful and I intend to use it in conjunction with other tapes I will be listening to. However, I can't see myself packing this particular cassette off to labor and delivery.
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Summary: Excellent, I used it during early labor and it helped me....
Review: The images of the waves, and breathing through the intensity of the contractions at their peak was incorporated into my mindscape when I entered labor. I do not know how I would have made it through without this tape, and the workbook "An Easier Childbirth". I am a first time mother. I recommend it to all women, whether they are giving birth for the first time or not.
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Summary: body-centered hypnosis for dealing with labor
Review: This is a body-centered hypnosis tape to use in conjunction with my book, "An Easier Childbirth" It is a visualization preparing you to meet the intensity of labor, not merely relax. If you want a relaxing tape you can fall asleep with, don't get this one. If you want a tape to help prepare you to handle the intensity of labor, this tape will help!
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