Not exact matches
But our northern neighbours, the Dutch, have a very high
home -
birthing rate (about 30 %, I think) and one of the lowest perinatal morbidity and mortality
rates in the world!
If there were more midwife - led
birthing centers, out - of - hospital and
home birthing for the low risk healthy population, according to evidence based NICES recommendations, this would decrease the
rates of invasive procedures and hospital exposure to pathogens - especially resistant ones, that all increase risk of infection.
Although
home birthed infant deaths are relatively low, death
rates among babies that are
birthed at
home are double or triple that of hospital births.
They know that
birthing at
home or in a birth center with a trained midwife is a very safe option with lower
rates of interventions and high patient satisfaction but now you no longer have to search and search for studies regarding homebirth which are often buried by cultural anecdotes and message boards.
She is comparing specifically low risk white women to the overall
rate of
home birthing women.
In other studies of planned
home birth or birth in a
birthing centre, the
rate of perinatal death excluding infants with major congenital anomalies ranged from 1.1 per thousand in a British study1 to 10 per 1000 in the Quebec study, 7 with reported
rates in the United States, 2 the Netherlands, 3 Switzerland, 4 New Zealand5 and Australia9, 12 falling in between.
But the fact remains, cesarean
rates are drastically lower for
home - birthers than the national average which lingers somewhere around one - third of hospital
birthing women.