Change of spectral analysis of fetal heart rate during clinical hypnosis – A prospective randomised trial from 20th gestation till term

Objective: To investigate the functional adaptive process of the fetal autonomic system during hypnosis from 20th week gestation till term. Are there changes in the power spectrum analysis of fetal heart rate when the mother is having a clinical hypnosis or control period? Study design: Fourty-nine FHR recordings, collected from November 2009 until March 2010 at the Marien-Hospital Witten, Germany, were analysed. Included recordings were from singletons and abdominal fetal ECG monitored pregnancies. All women were randomised to receive clinical hypnosis followed by a period with no intervention or vice versa. St…