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Homes Births as Safe as Hospital
By Sarah Lawson on 20/04/2009 02:32:43
A new study suggests that home births are as safe for women with low-risk pregnancies, as hospital births are
the mother had no ongoing medical problems which could affect the birth and where there were no pregnancy complications) fared well if they stayed at home to complete the birth rather than going to hospital after the labour had started.The study acknowledged
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Home birth - the pros and cons
By ThinkBaby on 12/07/2010 11:16:53
The number of home births in the UK is on the rise, and not without reason, but it's not for everyone
In the old days of course, all women would labour and give birth in their own homes but over the course of the last century, as medical science developed, it became the norm to have a hospital birth. In fact, not only did it become expected
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The home birthing option
By Maria Muennich on 17/06/2009 01:32:58
The government plans to make home birth an option to all mums in two years' time, but is it worth the fuss?
haven't thought of a home birth before your first reaction might be to recoil in horror at the thought of facing labour without doctors, drugs and all the trappings to deal with a medical emergency. Other women may choose a home birth for exactly
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Home births becoming more popular
By Laura Lee Davies on 06/04/2006 01:59:56
Statistics show an increase in home births. Welsh Assembly aims for 10 per cent of births to be at home by 2007.
fear complications may arise requiring them to be taken into hospital during labour. Other women are not enjoying the option of a home birth if they live in an area where there are not sufficient resources (enough available midwives, for example
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Home birth to hospital transfer risks
By Monica Stylli on 03/04/2008 11:01:53
New research suggests increased risks to mothers who opt for a home birth then have to be transferred to hospital
choose to have a home birth, but the government has promised the option to all women by 2009.The research has been widely criticised by home birth advocates as the word ‘transfers’ does not solely apply to women who were rushed into hospital in labour
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Ten tips for a happy home birth
By ThinkBaby on 19/11/2009 02:49:20
If you want to get the most out of birthing in your home environment it can help to plan ahead
- Even though you're planning to be home you'd still do with an extra hand with older children if you'd like them at home with you, or even have them with you for part of labour. Your birth partner will be too busy being there for you through the birth
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Women having home births at 50-year low
By Emma Daly on 11/11/2011 12:37:26
Only 2.5% of mums gave birth at home last year, compared to a third 50 years ago
Only 2.5% of women gave birth at home in the UK in 2010 compared to 33.2% in 1960. Just one woman in 40 now gives birth at home with midwives blaming increasing NHS funding cuts for the decrease. Women in their late thirties are more likely
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Home birth “hysteria” criticised by senior midwife
By Kimberley Smith on 17/08/2010 14:25:16
Concerns voiced over anti-home birth sentiment in the medical profession by general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives
Cathy Warwick, the general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, has voiced her concerns about a backlash against home births in response to an editorial in the Lancet medical journal.The Lancet’s editorial responded to claims by a US report
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Hospital births safer for first-time mums, but home births more natural
By Lara Brunt on 25/11/2011 11:20:44
A major study has found that home births are more risky for first-time mums, but hospital births use more intervention
A major study has found that home births are more risky for first-time mums, however, overall 90% of women who gave birth at home had ‘normal births’, with fewer assisted deliveries, c-sections and other common interventions.The Birthplace
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Boom in private home births
By Lara Brunt on 18/08/2011 16:38:15
Growing numbers of mums-to-be are choosing to have their babies delivered at home by independent midwives.
comparison websiteTen tips for a happy home birth
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