Perhaps of interest to some subscribers of the list:
Outcomes of planned home births versus planned hospital births after
regulation of midwifery in British Columbia
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Patricia A. Janssen,*? Shoo K. Lee,* Elizabeth M. Ryan,? Duncan J. Etches,?
Duncan F. Farquharson,§ Donlim Peacock,¶ Michael C. Klein? CMAJ
2002;166(3):315-23
I am not sure who has access to the original paper on the web :
http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-166/issue-3/0315.asp
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Edwin van Teijlingen
See also the news it generated in the mass media:
Home and hospital births equally safe, study shows
By ROD MICKLEBURGH
Tuesday, February 5, 2002 - Print Edition, Page A9
VANCOUVER -- Far from being risky, hippy-dippy trips for Earth mothers, home
births with a midwife present are just as safe as having babies in the
hospital, according to a landmark study of more than 2,100 births in British
Columbia.
They are also less likely to lead to infection or require pain-management
drugs and cesarian sections, says the study, to be published today in the
Canadian Medical Association Journal. "This is a thumbs-up for home births,"
said the study's author, Patricia Janssen of the department of family
practice at the University of B.C.
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Home births are no riskier: Canadian study
Three infant deaths in B.C. called unavoidable
Anne Marie Owens
National Post
Home births are apparently no riskier than hospital births, according to the
first major Canadian study to compare the two drastically different types of
delivery experiences.
The study, published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal,
found there is no increased maternal or neonatal risk associated with
planned home birth under the care of a regulated midwife. However, the
research did find home births had a slightly higher association with some
serious complications, such as maternal bleeding, need for infant
respiratory care and even infant death, although the numbers were so small
they were deemed to be statistically insignificant.
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