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OGDEN, Utah (AP) — In communities up and down the Wasatch Front, women are learning how to look at childbirth differently in hopes of experiencing more joy and less pain in the process.

On a recent Tuesday night, Hypnobabies instructor and doula Bonnie Baker welcomed four couples to her mother's Kaysville home for the first of six sessions that explain the birthing method.

"Hypnobabies uses self-hypnosis, similar to what people use for medical hypno-anesthesia for people who cannot use pain medication," said Baker, who began teaching Hypnobabies classes in 2014 after using its techniques to ha...