Mehdi Djalali, ‘Analyse von 130 haptonomisch begleiteten Geburten’, https://www.mattes.de/buecher/praenatale_psychologie/PP_PDF/PP_12_2_Djalali.pdf, Int. J. Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine Vol. 12 (2000) No. 2, 355-363, Mattes Verlag Heildelberg (bezocht op 16 september 2023)
It can be concluded from this work that couples who receive haptonomie support during pregnancy and birth not only enjoy the many important advantages described by Frans Veldman with regards to the de velopment of affective feelings between the father, mother and child, but that there is also a great benefit in purely medical, obstetric terms and in terms of the particular method of birth. The type of birth and the way in which the act of birth is experienced by the parents in turn has a huge significance for the aforementioned affective relationship between the parents and the child. (…) What is striking in this analysis is that there was a considerably higher proportion of older women in the group receiving haptonomie support. (…) These factors ought to result in a higher number of births by Caesarean section, but it was actually possible to reduce the number of Caesarean sections to a minimum. (…) Haptonomie support is obviously often very time-consuming for the obstetrician, but in view of the advantages and the importance of haptonomy, it is well worth investing this time.