Hypnobabies and profylax

[foodmachine]

Hi! I just started a hypnobabies home study and I was wondering if I can do profylax too or do the two clash. DH and I took profylax course last pregnancy and were going to refresh ourselves. I was wondering if the breathing techniques are too different.

Tia!

[Babydoll1285]

I'm not familiar with profylax but from I found with google, the breathing techniques are to avoid or lessen the pain of birth. Hypnobabies says techniques or courses that use the idea of pain management can mess with the effectiveness of the hypnobabies program. With the self hypnosis, you're telling your mind that birth should be easy and comfortable. If you practiced pain management techniques at the same time, you'd be sending mixed signals. HTH!