Relatively high perinatal mortality rates in the Netherlands have required a critical assessment of the national obstetric system. (link.springer.com)
The Netherlands has the highest perinatal mortality in Europe, and midwifery care may very well be the cause of this calamity. (skepticalob.com)
Block, like most homebirth advocates, is deeply distressed about the recent international study that shows the planned homebirth has triple the rate of perinatal mortality of comparable risk hospital birth. (skepticalob.com)