After that, she received almost 5,000 calls and emails. The Boston Globe reported that her book would be “sold out” in nine weeks.
Marie Madeline Flanagan, who passed away from Mickey, was born on February 1, 1933 in San Diego to Marie and Patrick Flanagan. Her mother was a seamstress and her father was a junior Navy officer who became a foreman at a cloth mill after the family moved to Franklin, NH
Mickey married her high school sweetheart Gerald Bilodeau in 1954 and graduated from what is now Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She then taught English in the high school she attended.
The couple divorced in 1966. In 1970 she married Eugene Mongan, who died in 2013. In addition to Ms. Geddes, Ms. Mongan survived her three other children Wayne Flanagan, Brian Kelly and Shawn Mongan. three stepchildren, Michelle Shoemaker, Steve Mongan, and Nancy Kelley; 17 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Before her name was associated with hypnobirthing, Ms. Mongan was the dean of Pierce College for Women in Concord, NH, appointed in 1965. It closed in 1972. Six years later, she received a Masters Degree in Education from the State of Plymouth. In Concord she opened the Thomas Secretariat School, which no longer exists.
Her hypnobirthing courses led her to found the HypnoBirthing Institute, now HypnoBirthing International, based in Pembroke, NH, of which Ms. Geddes is the director. The organization has trained and certified doctors, doulas, midwives and laypeople to become hypnobirth educators in 46 countries, said Vivian Keeler, chiropractor and Doula, president of HypnoBirthing International.
