HypnoBirthing® : No  Swinging Watch or Pain
In Marie Mongan's day, child birth  meant a sterile, medicalized birth with drugs, and if you happened to be awake,  lots of painful pushing.

"Most women were totally anesthetized and out  cold, and their babies were taken from them with forceps, except for the very  few who didn't make it to the hospital and had them by the side of the road,"  said Mongan, now 77.

So Mongan, then a young New Hampshire English  teacher, devised her own way to circumvent the system when she had her four  children in the late 1950s and 1960s.
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Kate Middleton hasn't been shy about breaking with tradition during her first pregnancy.

And now we can reveal the Royal mum-to-be is looking at another 'alternative' option: hypnobirth.

Royal sources say Kate is looking into the celebrity trend, which uses hypnotherapy techniques to help reduce 
pain during labour.

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"Through the relatively new study of foetology, or prenatal psychology, excellently documented by Dr Thomas Verny in his book The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, we have understood at least since the 1970s that this imprint period starts almost from the moment of conception. Unborn babies are aware, are capable of learning and will strive to make sense of what they are feeling and experiencing."
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"It's different for everyone, although I do recommend the HypnoBirthing classes," Alba, who is pregnant with her second child, told Us Weekly on Monday at a Beverly Hills store opening. "I highly recommend it. It just makes you chill."
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