Neither our sales pitch nor our informed consent forms spoke of the increased risk to babies that every study of nonhospital birth in the U.S. indicates. (honestmidwife.com)
Ricki Lake's documentary The Business of Being Born had come out the previous year, and interest in nonhospital birth was on the upswing. (honestmidwife.com)
It doesn't mean that you are an exception to the statistical realities: when babies are born in nonhospital settings in the U.S., they are 2 - 10 times more likely to either die or suffer brain damage. (honestmidwife.com)