From PhD in Parenting
Where is the safest place to give birth? If you are at a low risk of complications, then a midwife assisted home birth is your best bet according to a new Canadian study by Dr. Patrician Janssen from the University of British Columbia.
According to the CBC, the study found that the rate of death per 1,000 births in the first month of life was:
* 0.35 for planned home births
* 0.57 for hospital births with a midwife
* 0.64 for hospital births with a physician
Newborns born at home were less likely to require resuscitation or oxygen therapy after birth and were less likely to have aspirite meconium. Babies born at home were more likely to be admitted to hospital after birth than those born in a hospital. However, this was for fairly easily treatable and common conditions like jaundice and a baby born in the hospital that has jaundice probably wouldn’t have been sent home in the first place if it was jaundiced (therefore there would be no record of the baby being admitted to hospital).
Read more at PhD in Parenting.
