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Stop Smoking Hypnosis for pregnant Women in Ireland
13% of Irish Women Smoke Throughout Pregnancy
According to the Growing Up in Ireland study. In the report it was found that found women who experience a great deal of stress are much more likely to continue smoking, while poverty and poor education are also factors.
The aim of the research was to investigate the extent and distribution of three specific health behaviours among mothers in the prenatal and antenatal period.
The three specific areas they looked at were:
- Cigarette smoking in pregnancy
- Alcohol consumption in pregnancy
- Breastfeeding
The number of Irish women who smoke while pregnant has dropped from more than one in every four to fewer than one in every five, according to these latest figures.
The latest National Longitudinal Study of Children shows that the proportion of women smoking during pregnancy dropped from 28% in 1999 to 17% in 2007.
It found that 13% of women smoked all the way through pregnancy, even though smoking more than 11 cigarettes a day decreases a baby’s birth weight.
The study also found that compared to women in Britain, Irish women were significantly less likely to report drinking during pregnancy.
Most intelligent people know that smoking causes cancer, heart disease, and other major health problems. Smoking during pregnancy is especially harmful, causing additional health problems including premature birth, certain birth defects, and infant death.
Here are some facts about smoking and pregnancy:
- Smoking makes it harder for a woman to get pregnant.
- Women who smoke during pregnancy, are more likely than other women to have a miscarriage.
- Smoking can cause problems with the placenta—the source of the baby’s food and oxygen during pregnancy. For example, the placenta can separate from the womb too early, causing bleeding, which is dangerous to the mother and baby.
- Smoking during pregnancy can cause a baby to be born too early or to have low birth weight—making it more likely the baby will be sick and have to stay in the hospital longer. A few babies may even die.
- Smoking during and after pregnancy is a risk factor of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). SIDS is an infant death for which a cause of the death cannot be found.
- Babies born to women who smoke are more likely to have certain birth defects, like a cleft lip or cleft palate.
- There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. Breathing even a little secondhand smoke can be harmful. The only way to fully protect yourself and your loved ones from the dangers of other people’s smoke is through 100% smoke-free environments.
- Quitting smoking will help you feel better and provide a healthier environment for your baby.
When you stop smoking with hypnosis:
- Your baby will get more oxygen, even after just one day of not smoking.
There is less risk that your baby will be born too early. - There is a better chance that your baby will come home from the hospital with you.
- You will be less likely to develop heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, chronic lung disease, and other smoke-related diseases.
- You will have more energy and breathe more easily.
- You will have more money that you can spend on other things.
- You will feel good about what you have done for yourself and your baby.
- Quitting smoking can be difficult, but it is one of the best ways you can protect yourself and your baby’s health.
Stop Smoking Hypnosis for pregnant Women in Ireland
If you or someone you know wants to stop smoking with hypnosis hypnotherapy contact Martin Kiely Hypnosis Centre for more information or to book an appointment.
Martin Kiely Hypnosis Centre, Cork will provide you with professional specialized hypnosis services to help you succeed in becoming and remaining a non-smoker. Martin will teach you simple, effective and easy to use self-hypnosis exercises that many clients have successfully used to take back control over this area of their life.
Contact Martin Kiely Hypnosis Centre Cork, Ireland, for more information.
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 021-4870870
Hypnosis to Cope with Exams and Test Stress
Children are undergoing hypnosis to cope with the stress of NAPLAN tests.
Courier Mail News
DESPERATE parents are taking children to hypnotists to wipe out NAPLAN stress.
“Children are making themselves physically ill with worry over these tests and I have found I can make a big difference in bringing peace to their young lives,” said the Gold Coast’s Wayne Donnelly, who calls himself a hypnotist rather than a hypnotherapist.
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Using techniques once reserved for stage shows, Mr Donnelly works with children using neuro linguistic programming (NLP).
“At first I thought there may be other underlying fears and didn’t understand that a school test could cause such anxiety,” he said. “But that’s exactly what it has been doing – these children are making themselves physically sick over whether they pass or fail NAPLAN.”
He worked previously as an accountant and business coach but reinvented himself after the GFC.
Tanya Targett said her daughter Olivia, 9, started worrying about NAPLAN in Grade 2.
“As soon as we got through the Grade 3 testing, she started stressing about the Grade 5 test. It was constant. This damn thing was constantly on her mind, almost in a sense stealing her childhood and the stress was manifesting physically, with tummy pains and tears – she just didn’t want to go to school,” Ms Targett, 39, said.
Despite her fears, the nine-year-old excelled in the Grade 3 tests.
“We had discussed the test issues with the GP and child psychologist but Olivia kept sinking back into the anxiety. I had heard about hypnotism and was desperate for a solution. It was instant success. From that one $160 session, she transformed back into a happy, healthy child and has not looked back,” she said.
“There was nothing weird about the session and I was there with her. It was not a hypnotic trance but like a very laid-back conversation between them.
“He changed the meaning of NAPLAN in her mind and linked the word to the music from her favourite My Little Pony show. She tells me that is what she hears now every time the dreaded word NAPLAN comes up and there is no bad reaction.”
Brisbane child psychologist Judith Locke believes the pressures on children about NAPLAN tests are causing problems for parents.
“There is a ridiculous pressure put on schools and students about NAPLAN and it has not been at all beneficial. I will say the student who needs hypnotherapy about such a test, I would suspect, has issues to do with worry and anxiety that need to be addressed with the aid of a clinical psychologist using proven treatments and working with the whole family,” she said.
DEPRESSION, ANXIETY PLAGUE TEENAGE GIRLS
INCREASING numbers of teenage girls are turning up at the Mater Children’s Hospital in Brisbane with depression and anxiety, mirroring a worldwide trend.
Child and adolescent psychiatrist William Bor said studies indicated teenage girls were experiencing significantly higher rates of depression and anxiety this century compared to the latter part of the 1900s.
“More young women are presenting to the Mater Children’s casualty department and that’s increased over five years,” Dr Bor said. “Typically, it’s 14-year-old girls who have experience of depression and … stress.”
While the causes are not clear, he said more stress in schools was a contributing factor.
“At the Mater, the referrals vary depending on the time of the school year. It’s quiet in school holidays,”
Dr Bor said. “It’s worst during the school term, particularly at exam times. Kids are facing more pressure to complete Year 12. There’s limited capacity to get good jobs if they leave school early.”
As Queensland Year 12s prepare to sit the core skills test next month, Dr Bor called for more programs in schools to help instil resilience in students and to educate them about identifying depressive feelings.
Hypnosis to Cope with Exams and Test Stress
Martin Kiely Hypnosis Centre Cork will provide you with professional specialized hypnosis services to help you improve your learning skills to maximize your study time. Martin will teach you simple, effective and easy to use self-hypnosis exercises that many clients have successfully used to take back control over this area of their life.
Contact Martin Kiely Hypnosis Centre Cork, Ireland, for more information.
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 021-4870870
