Not exact matches
There was a
low rate of caesarean section, postpartum haemorrhage and third degree perinatal tears as well as
low rates of stillbirth and
early neonatal death in this sample of women and babies.
Rates were
low for caesarean section, postpartum haemorrhage, third degree perineal tears, stillbirth and
early neonatal death in this sample of women and babies.
Most studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at
low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer
neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study on place of birth for women at
low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and
early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.
Even if we just take
early and late
neonatal stats, leaving out HALF of the homebirth deaths (22/44) it's 1.29 / 1000 for MANA's almost all white, majority college educated, mostly singleton, mostly
low - risk healthy women in their 20s and 30s, vs. 0.81 for EVERYONE delivering at term in the hospital.
Planned home compared with planned hospital births in the Netherlands: intrapartum and
early neonatal death in
low - risk pregnancies.
Here are the mortality rates (excluding lethal anomalies) for babies born to
low risk women that were confirmed to be alive at the start of labor but die either during birth (intrapartum) or in the first week of life (
early neonatal):
Higher methylation of RXRA chr9: 136355885 +, but not of eNOS chr7: 150315553 +, was associated with
lower maternal carbohydrate intake in
early pregnancy, previously linked with higher
neonatal adiposity in this population.