By the way, a great book by another skeptical OBGYN is called «Born in the USA» only he's skeptical of medicalized birth because he's a clinical scientist as well, unlike our author here and he's realized that home birth is safer
than hospital birth according to peer - reviewed large scale studies.
Not exact matches
According to BabyCenter, the average cost of a
birth - center labor is about a third less
than a
hospital birth, due to less interventions and a shorter stay.
According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, while home
birth is associated with fewer maternal interventions compared to a planned
hospital birth (such as labor induction and c - sections), it holds more
than twice the risk for perinatal death — or death within the first week of life.
Does nine times higher death rate of breech babies in homebirth
according to MANA stats
than the death rate of breech
births in
hospitals count as a proven negative outcome or not?
Early - term
births (37 to 38 weeks gestation) are associated with higher neonatal morbidity (illness) and with more neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or neonatology service admissions
than term
births (39 to 41 weeks gestation),
according to a study by Shaon Sengupta, M.D., M.P.H., now of the Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia and formerly of the University at Buffalo, N.Y., and colleagues.
For those who prefer a contraceptive implant, getting the procedure in the
hospital immediately after giving
birth is more cost - effective
than delaying insertion to a 6 - 8 week postpartum visit,
according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers.