Sentences with phrase «nonhospital midwives»

In Oregon, baby death when using nonhospital midwives shown to be 6 - 8 times higher than hospital birth: Judith Rooks» report to the Oregon State Legislature

Sheryl, nonhospital midwives in the United States constantly cite studies done in other countries as evidence that home birth is safe.

Not exact matches

The women who chose nonhospital consulted most with a midwife, followed closely by their spouse or partner.

Midwives often say that nonhospital birth is «at least as safe» as giving birth in the hospital.

Women who choose nonhospital birth are not a random sample of the overall birthing population; they are self - selected, and (supposedly) carefully screened by their midwives to ensure they are «low risk.»

Yet, when I analyzed all of the studies that the Midwives» Alliance of North America (MANA) says comprise the best evidence for the safety of home birth, I found that every study that looked at nonhospital birth in the United States (and many of the studies that looked at other countries, as well) reported much higher death rates for babies when compared to similar hospital births.