Does HypnoBirthing “work”?
Between October 2005 and November 2006, 596 parents’ birth reports were sent to the HypnoBirthing Institute. Of the 596 birth reports, 99 were from outside the United States. The information presented here was derived from the 497 birth reports from HypnoBirthing® couples in the US. The most comprehensive data currently available on birthing in the United Sates are from Listening to Mothers II Report of the First National U.S. Survey of Women’s Childbearing Experiences. New York: Maternity Center Association, October 2006. www.maternitywise.org/listeningtomothers/ (hereafter abbreviated as LTM II.) Limited data is also available from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004 (CDC.) Therefore, data from those reports were used in order to have a comparison for the data from HypnoBirthing couples. HypnoBirthing® mothers experienced surgical birth (Cesarean section) at a much lower rate than that reported by LTM II or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 17% of HypnoB
