The HypnoBirthing Institute

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Support your HypnoBirthing families beyond the classroom! Encourage your clients to explore the HypnoBirthing Store at H...
11/07/2025

Support your HypnoBirthing families beyond the classroom!

Encourage your clients to explore the HypnoBirthing Store at HypnoBirthing.com — where they can find additional relaxation tracks and customized “Rainbow Relaxation” downloads to deepen their practice at home.

These resources are a beautiful way for families to stay connected to their relaxation techniques and the calm, confident mindset they’re cultivating through HypnoBirthing.

In HypnoBirthing, we trust the natural flow of birth — and that trust continues after baby arrives.When parents hold the...
11/05/2025

In HypnoBirthing, we trust the natural flow of birth — and that trust continues after baby arrives.

When parents hold their newborn close, rubbing their back and speaking softly, they’re instinctively helping baby transition from womb to world. This sacred time — the golden hour — is nature’s design for bonding, regulation, and love.

As birth workers, we can protect this moment by encouraging patience and connection over procedures and rush.

Birth, transition, and those first breaths all unfold best with time, calm, and trust.

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“The way we do birth is the way we do life.” As birth workers, we witness this truth every day.Birth mirrors how we move...
11/04/2025

“The way we do birth is the way we do life.”

As birth workers, we witness this truth every day.
Birth mirrors how we move through the world—our beliefs, our patterns, our capacity to trust, surrender, and flow.

When we support families through HypnoBirthing®, we’re not just teaching techniques. We’re holding space for transformation—helping parents release control, move beyond fear, and remember that calm and confidence come from within.

HypnoBirthing invites us—and the families we serve—to live the practice:
to soften instead of resist, to breathe through uncertainty, and to trust in the innate wisdom of the body and birth.

Every birth is life intensified. Every moment in that space reflects how we all—parent and professional alike—meet challenge, trust, and surrender.
When we embody the same calm, conscious presence we teach, we elevate the birthing experience for everyone involved.

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As birth professionals, we know how deeply connected the mind and body are throughout the entire perinatal journey — and...
10/29/2025

As birth professionals, we know how deeply connected the mind and body are throughout the entire perinatal journey — and that connection doesn’t stop once the baby is born.

This article from HypnoBirthing International highlights a beautiful link between HypnoBirthing and positive breastfeeding experiences:
https://hypnobirthing.com/fourth-trimester/hypnobirthing-and-stress-free-birth-and-breastfeeding/

Key takeaways for us as birth workers:

The calm, oxytocin-rich state nurtured through HypnoBirthing practices supports both smoother births and easier milk let-down postpartum.

Techniques like deep breathing and guided relaxation can be powerful tools for new parents navigating those early feeds.

Helping families carry their HypnoBirthing mindset into the “fourth trimester” promotes confidence, connection, and physiological flow.

As professionals supporting families through birth and beyond, we can remind them that the same relaxation tools that eased their labor can also help their breastfeeding journey unfold naturally.

Have you checked your certification status lately? As we near the end of the year, now’s the perfect time to refresh you...
10/28/2025

Have you checked your certification status lately?

As we near the end of the year, now’s the perfect time to refresh your HypnoBirthing certification and stay current with the latest updates, resources, and support from the Institute.

Don’t miss the last remaining training options available this year — reserve your spot today and continue sharing the magic of calm, confident birth with the families you serve.

Explore upcoming refresher opportunities:
🔗 https://hypnobirthing.com/training/

Sharing positive birth stories can make a profound difference for the families you support. When expectant parents read ...
10/27/2025

Sharing positive birth stories can make a profound difference for the families you support. When expectant parents read real accounts of calm, confident births, it helps them reframe what’s possible and reinforces the HypnoBirthing philosophy that mindset matters.

The HypnoBirthing Birth Stories page is a treasure trove of inspiration — real families sharing their empowering experiences with HypnoBirthing.
Use these stories in your classes, share them with your clients, and help spread the ripple of positive birth experiences.

Explore and share:
👉 hypnobirthing.com/birth-stories

"You can still have a beautiful, empowered birth, even if it wasn't what you originally planned for." As birth professio...
10/24/2025

"You can still have a beautiful, empowered birth, even if it wasn't what you originally planned for."

As birth professionals, we know that even the most well-prepared families may experience unexpected turns during labor. HypnoBirthing families are taught to stay calm and adaptable — and our role is to help hold that space of peace and confidence when plans shift.

Whether it’s a change in birth setting, interventions, or pace, gentle reminders of their tools — breath, relaxation, and mindset — can help parents remain empowered and connected through it all.

Supporting flexibility doesn’t mean letting go of goals; it means helping families trust themselves and find beauty in every version of their birth story.

As HypnoBirthing Instructors, this is what our work is truly about — helping families build the inner tools to stay cent...
10/23/2025

As HypnoBirthing Instructors, this is what our work is truly about — helping families build the inner tools to stay centered when birth takes unexpected turns, to recognize that calm and clarity can exist alongside challenge, and to listen to their own intuition above all else.

Each birth story reminds us that HypnoBirthing isn’t about creating “perfect” births — it’s about creating connected, conscious, and empowered ones.

What do you say when a client asks to complete the HypnoBirthing course more quickly than over five weeks?It’s a common ...
10/22/2025

What do you say when a client asks to complete the HypnoBirthing course more quickly than over five weeks?

It’s a common question — and one that comes from a genuine place of busy schedules and eagerness to prepare. But it’s so important to remind families that HypnoBirthing is designed to be experienced, not rushed.

Self-hypnosis and deep relaxation are learned skills that unfold gradually through practice and repetition. The time between classes is what allows the subconscious conditioning to take hold — helping parents truly embody the calm, confidence, and trust that make HypnoBirthing – The Mongan Method so effective.

When we honor the full 5-week format, we’re giving our clients the opportunity to absorb, integrate, and practice — rather than simply receive information. There’s no shortcut to deep transformation, and that’s exactly why the course works.

Attention birth workers & maternal health advocates —  A new article "Effects of HypnoBirthing education and oxytocin ma...
10/17/2025

Attention birth workers & maternal health advocates — A new article "Effects of HypnoBirthing education and oxytocin massage on labor and postpartum period in primiparous pregnant women: A randomized controlled trial. explores emerging evidence around the impact of psychosocial support during labor on postpartum well-being.

Why this matters to us:

It underscores how our presence, advocacy, and emotional attunement can make measurable differences in birthing people’s outcomes.
It highlights systemic barriers (e.g. structural inequities, provider biases, or access gaps) that we must be vigilant about.

It offers insights into best practices and evidence-based strategies that we can integrate into our care models and client support.

What you can do now:
Read the full article (link below) and reflect: in which areas of your practice do you already align with the findings? Where is there room to grow?

Share with your peers and local birth-worker networks — conversation and collective reflection help turn evidence into change.

Consider small, implementable shifts: whether in your communication style, intake assessment, partnership with medical providers, or advocacy in prenatal visits.
Use this as a tool in client education: showing that the care you bring is not “extra” but grounded in evolving evidence.

🔗 https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03630242.2025.2572397&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTOTkyNTgyOTk2MDUyMjU0NjU3MzIaZmNjMWRmMTkwZGY3ZDZiNDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AOvVaw2V2gNLLXWo5wboe6ebrNPB

Let this encourage us to keep bridging research and practice — to birth with intention, equity, and care.

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As birth professionals, we see this truth in action.When parents feel safe, supported, and informed, the body responds b...
10/14/2025

As birth professionals, we see this truth in action.
When parents feel safe, supported, and informed, the body responds beautifully — oxytocin flows, muscles work in harmony, and birth unfolds with greater ease.

HypnoBirthing® equips families with the tools to cultivate that calm: education, relaxation, and a mindset of trust.

By sharing these techniques, we help restore confidence in the body’s natural ability to birth — and that’s the heart of what we do.

10/08/2025

Absolutely — and this is one of the areas where HypnoBirthing truly shines.

HypnoBirthing teaches techniques that work with both the conscious and subconscious mind, helping clients release fear and tension stored from past experiences or cultural conditioning. When fear is present, the body’s natural birthing responses are interrupted—muscles tighten, adrenaline rises, and discomfort increases.

By guiding families through deep relaxation, affirmations, and visualization, HypnoBirthing supports them in reframing birth as a safe, instinctive, and empowering process.

For those with prior trauma, it offers gentle tools to rebuild trust in their bodies, strengthen a sense of safety, and regain emotional control in preparation for birth.

As birth workers, understanding and integrating these principles allows us to hold safer, calmer spaces for our clients—supporting not just physiological birth, but emotional healing as well.

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110 Sheep Davis Road
Pembroke, NH
03275

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 3pm
Tuesday 8am - 3pm
Wednesday 8am - 3pm
Thursday 8am - 3pm
Friday 8am - 3pm

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+16038568792

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Marie Mongan

Marie Mongan – Hypnobirthing Institute Founder, Owner and Visionary. Marie Mongan, M.Ed., M.Hy., of The Villages, Florida, is an award-winning hypnotherapist, who brings to her classroom over thirty years’ experience in education and counseling on the college level and in the private sector. As the most comprehensive birthing education program available, Mongan Method HypnoBirthing® offers women and their partners opportunities to explore their choices and develop the decisions-making skill necessary to achieve their birthing goals. She is a former college dean who, early in her career, was named one of five outstanding educational leaders in New Hampshire and was awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship to Harvard University.