Sentences with phrase «stouffville home birth group»

Readers are therefore unaware if samples in the intended home birth group include those who were appropriately risked out of home birth during the antepartum period and later went on to have a high risk hospital birth (Nove et al, 2012).

0/1000 Sweden 1992 - 2004 (25): «There were no emergency cases among 790 planned home birth group.

There were two maternal deaths in the planned home birth group (2 per 100,000) and three in the planned hospital birth group (6 per 100,000).

Shouldn't deaths be expected even in a well screened home birth group?

In the subgroup analysis stratified by parity, there was an increased incidence of the primary outcome for nulliparous women in the planned home birth group (weighted incidence 9.3 per 1000 births, 95 % confidence interval 6.5 to 13.1) compared with the obstetric unit group (weighted incidence 5.3, 3.9 to 7.3).

The characteristics of women in the freestanding midwifery unit and alongside midwifery unit groups tended to fall between the obstetric unit and home birth groups, with women in the alongside midwifery unit group generally more similar to the obstetric unit group.

When the analysis was restricted to units or trusts with a response rate of at least 85 %, the higher odds of the primary outcome for nulliparous women in the planned home birth group remained, and the strength of this association increased (appendix 5 on bmj.com).

There is simply no way that a higher incidence of neonatal death can not be associated with a higher incidence of low Apgar scores: there must be more near misses in the home birth group.

When the author compared 3385 planned home births with 806 402 low risk hospital births, he consistently found a non-significantly lower perinatal mortality in the home birth group.

N / A due to being unable to calculate a statistic due to zero events in the Birth Centre and Home Birth groups.

In addition, one home birth group notified a death that was matched in the state's perinatal data collection.

Intrapartum death not associated with congenital malformations or extreme immaturity (defined in the home birth group as an infant weighing < 1000 g) was three times as frequent in planned home births than it was nationwide (3.0; 1.9 to 4.8)(table 4).

I came up with the number by assuming that the approximately one in 2000 seen in the home birth group was typical.

The article did say that the home birth group had fewer immigrants and fewer poor women.

: D I think we should make a Stouffville Home Birth group.

Published by Birth (sponsored by Lamaze International), the Hutton study shows lower rates of interventions such as cesarean section, episiotomy, and medical pain relief for the home birth group.

Review of perinatal deaths in the planned home births group identified inappropriate inclusion of women with risk factors for home birth and inadequate fetal surveillance during labor.

The incidence of stillbirth or neonatal death was 1.15 per every 1000 births in the planned home birth group compared with 0.94 per 1000 in the planned hospital birth group.

This is entirely appropriate — if home birth is ever safe that time is not in premature labor — but does bias survival in favor of the home birth group.

The home birth group was similar to the group who had a planned hospital birth attended by a physician (physician comparison group) in age, lone parent status, income quintile and parity because of the matching process (Table 1).

Rates of interventions during the intrapartum period were predictably lower for the home birth group compared with both groups of women with planned hospital births.

There were fewer nulliparous clients in the home birth group compared with the midwife comparison group.

Two babies in the home birth group, one in the physician comparison group and one in the midwife comparison group had meconium aspiration syndrome.

The adjusted odds ratio for cesarean section in the home birth group compared with physician - attended hospital births was 0.3 (95 % CI 0.22 — 0.43).

Babies exposed to thick meconium who are not vigorous at birth may be disadvantaged in the home birth group, particularly in view of the trend toward increased need for assisted ventilation in this group.

Thirty - one (3.6 % of women in the home birth group) emergency transports took place.

There were 3 cases of perinatal death in the home birth group: 2 stillbirths and one neonatal death.

The adjusted odds ratio for Apgar scores lower than 7 at 5 minutes in the home birth group compared with physician - attended hospital births was 0.84 (95 % CI 0.32 — 2.19).

However, in the home birth group, additional records were available with information about indications for consultation, transfer of care to a physician and transport to hospital.

The absence of comparison subjects from these hospitals, which may have had fewer resources for managing complicated clinical situations, may have biased the analysis against the home birth group.

After adjustment for maternal age, lone parent status, income quintile, use of any versus no substances and parity, women in the home birth group were less likely to have epidural analgesia (odds ratio 0.20, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.14 — 0.27), be induced, have their labours augmented with oxytocin or prostaglandins, or have an episiotomy.

However, because midwives offer eligible clients the choice of home or hospital births, subjects in this comparison group lived in the same hospital catchment areas as those in the home birth group because the same midwives attended both groups.

Three of 4 subjects who required blood transfusion were in the home birth group.

There were fewer cesarean sections for dystocia in the home birth group compared with either comparison group.

Among perinatal deaths in the home birth group (Table 5), the first stillbirth had no obvious explanation and permission to perform an autopsy was refused by the parents.

Rates of birth weight that was less than 2500 g (0.8 %) in our home birth group did not differ from the midwife comparison group (0.7 %) and were somewhat lower than the rate of 2 % among women attended by midwives in the Quebec study.

The home birth group consisted of all women enrolled in the Home Birth Demonstration Project (HBDP).

Clients in the home birth group were more likely to report the use of tobacco during pregnancy than the midwife comparison group and were more likely to report the use of illicit drugs during pregnancy than the physician comparison group.

There were 3 sets of twins delivered in the home birth group (data not shown).

Five babies in the home birth group required assisted ventilation for more than 24 hours, compared with none in either comparison group.

The home birth group was younger than the group who had a planned hospital birth attended by a midwife (midwife comparison group) and weighed slightly less at the beginning of pregnancy.

There were fewer infections in the home birth group compared with either comparison group.

Tracheal suction was performed more frequently among babies in the midwife comparison group compared with the home birth group.

The rate of Apgar scores that were less than 7 at 5 minutes in the home birth group, excluding stillbirths and babies with congenital anomalies, was 0.9 %, which was not different from those in the comparison groups.

There were no differences in rates of postpartum hemorrhage among the 3 groups, but the only 2 cases of obstetric shock occurred in the home birth group.

Rates of perinatal mortality, 5 - minute Apgar scores, meconium aspiration syndrome or need for transfer to a different hospital for specialized newborn care were very similar for the home birth group and for births in hospital attended by a physician.

Not exact matches

Fathers were much less likely to be involved after the birth if their baby's mother lived with her parents during the pregnancy — and of course the very young mothers were more likely to have been living with their own parents (or with one of them): 63 % of the youngest group of mums lived «at home» while only 13 % of those aged 22 or over did so.

The interrogation isn't just at work, but also in our personal lives as our church members or small groups label us as the home birth midwife.

... [T] here was a significant excess of the primary outcome in births planned at home compared with those planned in obstetric units in the restricted group of women without complicating conditions at the start of care in labour.

A major study published in the UK (Birthplace in England Collaborative Group, 2011) has examined the risks of planned home births, comparing them against planned deliveries in hospitals and midwife units for low risk women.