Obstetrics (Risk Factors)

Study: High Risk Home Births are Inadvisable

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 10th, 1998

In most industrialized countries, only women at low risk of complications give birth at home and the outcomes often compare favorably with hospital births

In the August 6, 1998, issue of the British Medical Journal, however, Hilda Bastian, a consumer advocate along with researchers from Australia's National Perinatal Statistics Unit, expressed concern about the current trend in some regions for women at high risk to give birth at home ("Perinatal Death Associated with Planned Home Birth in Australia: Population-Based Study," BMJ, August 6, 1998). Based on death rates of babies born after planned home births in Australia, the authors found that the death rate was...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (1998-08-10)

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