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Canadian study suggests no increased risk with home births.(Brief Article)
2002 MAR 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Home birth has been an option for low-risk expectant mothers in Ontario since 1994 and in British Columbia since 1998. There has been a great deal of debate surrounding the safety of home delivery with a midwife versus hospital delivery.
Patricia Janssen and colleagues compared perinatal outcomes for planned home births attended by midwives (862 births) and for planned hospital births attended by either physicians (743) or midwives (571). The authors found that more women in the home birth group than in the midwife-attended hospital group had an intact perineum (55.0% versus 44.1%). The incidence of maternal infection was lower in the home birth group than in either the physician-attended or midwife-attended hospital groups (0.7% versus 3.5%).
The authors also reported that neonatal outcomes included similar rates of meconium aspiration in all groups and ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Canadian study suggests no increased risk with home births.(Brief...