Home Birth is Safe!
Biology * Evidence * Ancient Wisdom
Reveal that….
Giving birth at home is an intimate, gentle and safe way
to celebrate your new baby
For the facts check the British Medical Journal bmj.com
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“Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives:
a large prospective study in North America”
Or try this link:Â http://www.bmj.com/content/330/7505/1416.long
Homebirth is as safe or safer for healthy low risk women. Homebirths in the US have a 1.7%-3.4% c-section rate in starling contrast to the US national rate of nearly 33% (2007)
Also view:
- Meta-analysis of observational studies: safety of home birth, from Cochrane Colloquium Abstracts, a part of the Cochrane Collaboration:  http://www.imbi.uni-freiburg.de/OJS/cca/index.php/cca/article/viewArticle/4165 ( The Cochrane Collaboration is a group of over 28,000 volunteers in more than 100 countries who review the effects of health care interventions tested in biomedical randomized controlled trials. A few more recent reviews have also studied the results of non-randomized,observational studies. The results of these systematic reviews are published as “Cochrane Reviews” in the Cochrane Library.)