Other tools, like hypnosis and meditation, help some women relax, but not everyone responds to hypnosis or is able to use it effectively if labor is intense, and some people find meditation more frustrating than helpful if they can't calm their racing thoughts.

Building a tool kit of hands-on comfort techniques and a knowledge-base of information about physiologic birth is empowering for families and can help mom cope in labor, but these techniques focus on the physical body, leaving an unprepared family vulnerable in mind and spirit.

Incorporating transformational breathwork into your clients birth preparation helps hypnosis become more effective, meditation becomes accessible to busy minds, and women can integrate information from the thinking mind and embody it into their entire being so they can let go of their thoughts and confidently experience altered states of consciousness trusting birth, their body, and their baby.

This is empowered birth.