Results: There was no relation between the planned place of birth and perinatal outcome in primiparous women when controlling for a favourable or less favourable background. (bmj.com)
This may be different in other countries, but it is not unexpected in the Netherlands, where home birth has been an approved option for a long time.1 5 12 After background variables were controlled for, the perinatal outcome for primiparous women with low risk pregnancies was similar for those who planned home births and those who planned hospital births. (bmj.com)
Of the three most common indications in our study, failure to progress, nonreassuring FHR tracing, and fetal malpresentation, failure to progress is of particular interest because it strongly affected the cohort of primiparous women at term with a singleton gestation in cephalic presentation. (journals.lww.com)