<< ISTR reading in the Sundat Times
last week about some research that showed that home
births were MUCH MORE DANGEROUS than hospital births
but that the GOVERNMENT had SUPPRESSED the data.>>
Ha ha ha! My reading of the literature on that subject (and it is quite
extensive but you have to know where to look) suggests that the opposite is
the case. The obstetric establishment got lots of beds back in the early
60s and had to do something with them otherwise they might have lost them
so empire building took over from critical analysis of data and women were
shepherded into hospital to give birth. In fact it is probably more
expensive these days to provide home birth care than hospital birth.
Declan
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