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И зачем мы только поехали в этот госпиталь [Sep. 15th, 2006|08:13 pm]
The study collected information from 502 direct entry midwives certified with the North American Registry of Midwives. These midwives reported on the birthing outcomes of 5,418 women in 2000, 98% of whom resided in the US, the other 2% in Canada.

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The researchers found that the home birth mothers were on average older, of lower socioeconomic status, of higher educational achievement, and less likely to be Hispanic or African-American than the hospital-going majority of Americans.

Twelve percent (655) of the home birth mothers were transferred to the hospital during or after delivery (mostly during). First time mothers were four times more likely to be transferred than women who had given birth before.

Medical interventions—such as epidural anesthesia, episiotomy, forceps or vacuum extraction, and cesarean section—occurred less than half as often in home births as they did in hospitals; for example, the cesarean rate for home births was 3.7% compared to 19% for the US as a whole.

No maternal deaths occurred among the home births. Fourteen babies died in the home births: three from fatal birth defects, five during delivery, and six as newborns. The overall death rate was 2 deaths per 1,000 intended home births; this rate was comparable to averages for hospital births in other studies.

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