Review: HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method, by Marie Mongan
HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method: A natural approach to a safe, easier, more comfortable birthing by Marie F. Mongan
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Borrowed from my midwife.
Most useful along with the class (which I did not take); it would not very helpful in practice without the class to teach you how to do it. If you don’t naturally go into a “labor zone” during birthing, this might be good to try.
Her history and metaphysic is all wrong, though. She says birth should be pain-free and the only reason we experience it as painful is because of fear. She does not dismiss the Bible, but claims Eve’s curse is a mistranslation. Her philosophy only works if you assume our bodies are not fallen. She even mentions being made in God’s likeness, but ignores the Fall and dismisses the Curse. Her history of birthing seems like it must come from either feminist revisionists or creative license; half the information she gives I’m dubious exists in historical records, and she never cites any of her information or claims or sources throughout. We are supposed to believe her because she says so.
Still, it gave me some things to think about, and those lines of thought helped me deal with Ilse’s birth and prepare my mind for my upcoming delivery.
