31 Aug, 2009
Home Birth With Registered Midwife Lower Intervention Risk Than Hospital Births
Posted by: Naturally In: Children's Health
Women who planned a home birth had a significantly lower risk of obstetric interventions and adverse outcomes, including augmentation of labour, electronic fetal monitoring, epidural analgesia, assisted vaginal delivery, cesarean section, hemorrhage, and infection. The risk of infant death following planned home birth attended by a registered midwife does not differ from that of a [...]
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