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home birth

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home birth
Home delivery Obstetrics The birth of a child at parents' home Pros Cheaper, more comfortable Cons Complications and high-risk pregnancies have ↑ mortality. See Bimanual pelvic examination.
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The study, which looked at 2,889 home births and 4,752 A[degrees]hospital births with the same midwives and 5,331 hospital births attended by doctors, showed women who had a planned home birth are less likely to run into serious problems during labour.
Home births 'as safe as hospital ones' by Asian News International
Mr Mehigan was recruited from a hospital in Nottingham, where he increased the home birth rate from less than 2% to 6% in six years.
Drive to increase home births; HOME DELIVERIES CAMPAIGN BENEFITS FOR ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
The Government has guaranteed that women will have a choice of where they give birth by the end of this year, including the choice of a home birth.
'Home births as safe as hospital' by Independent Television News Limited (ITN)
 
 
 
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