Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Home birth with midwife as safe as hospital birth

Patricia A. Janssen PhD, Lee Saxell MA and colleagues
August 31, 2009

Outcomes of planned home birth versus hospital birthThe debate about the safety of home births continues in the literature, professional policy and practice. This study looks at one health region in British Columbia and compared outcomes of planned home births attended by registered midwives to planned hospital births attended by midwives or doctors.

Here we have another example of research in the support of homebirth. This latest study found that women birthing at home had less interventions such as epidurals, forceps, vacuum extractions and caesarean births and they also had less adverse outcomes such as haemorrhage and infection. The researchers found that baby's born at home were less likely to suffer birth trauma, need to be resuscitated and less liley to have meconium aspiration. More proof of what we already known - HOMEBIRTH is a safe option for women.

Full article

COMMENTARY: The safety of home birth: Is the evidence good enough?

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