Wondering if having a home birth with a midwife is safe? The answer is an overwhelming YES! Check out this study from Canada to find out more…
This study compared low-risk women giving birth at home attended by midwives with low-risk women giving birth at a hospital attended by the SAME midwives and also with low-risk women giving birth in the same hospitals attended by physicians. Guess what? The women who planned to give birth at home with midwives had the lowest rates of interventions and complications!
Women with a planned home birth with a midwife had the lowest rates of obstetric interventions including electronic fetal monitoring, vacuum or forceps delivery, cesarean delivery, episiotomy, or augmentation of labor and lower rates of adverse maternal outcomes including hemorrhage and third or fourth degree tears. Newborns were less likely to require resuscitation at birth, have birth trauma, need oxygen after 24 hours, or have meconium aspiration all while the perinatal death rate was comparable for all three groups.
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