The choice of an Apgar score of zero and the primary outcome measurement is particularly apt, since severe neurologic injury is particularly
likely at homebirth, because homebirth midwives do not monitor the fetal heart rate appropriately.
Not exact matches
I'm guessing second timers are less
likely to choose
homebirth for that very reason — they know what is really
at stake.
Most women can deliver most of their babies with minimum intervention, they are less
likely to receive unnecessary intervention
at home, and in that sense
homebirths can be safer.