In working with the effects of LSD, a medical doctor Stanislav Grof, found that his patients were reliving phases of their birth under the drug's effects. Abandoning LSD research, since its use had become illegal, Grof, at the same time as Janov, developed holotropic breathwork therapy which also dealt with birth trauma. Explaining that quite often young children will begin to spontaneously talk and ask questions about their births, Chamberlain conducted experiments with birth mothers and children and determined that birth memories are retrievable under hypnosis. Because of this, the author says that new-born infants are capable of picking up on the insensitivity of casual remarks. He believes that disappointments as to the sex of the child as well as overt rejection can be instantly communicated to the neonate.
Babies Remember Birth contains many short case histories from the baby's point of view.
The book concludes with two short appendixes on the problems of abortion and parental guilt.