I also later read that babies
whose mothers have received IV fluids during
labor are often born retaining quite a bit of fluid, and can easily lose 20 % with no ill effects because they
started out ahead of the game.
The problem I see is that direct entry midwives in the United States will often attend home births that do not fit these criteria; while insisting that home birth is at least as safe as hospital birth, many will attend twin births, breech births, births after 41 weeks, births of women who have pre-existing or pregnancy - induced disease, births after two or more previous caesarean sections, and births of women
whose labor has been jump -
started rather than begun spontaneously (whether by herbs, prolonged nipple stimulation, the breaking of her water, or illicit use of medications).