“…Medical management of labour and birth are now part of the childbirth education teaching curriculum and accepted as part of normal birth (Ferguson et al, 2013;Lothian, 2007Lothian, , 2008aWalker, Visger, & Rossie, 2009). The literature supports the notion that antenatal educational interventions, including psychoprophylaxis and hypnosis, increases feelings of confidence and agency, but demonstrate little impact on reducing interventions and associated morbidity (Bergström, Kieler, & Waldenström, 2009;Byrne, Hauck, Fisher, Bayes, & Schutze, 2014;Cyna et al, 2013;Downe et al, 2015;Gagnon & Sandall, 2007;Koehn, 2002;Madden, Middleton, Cyna, Matthewson, & Jones, 2012).…”