Is Home Birth Safe?

Here are some links to help you learn more about the differences between hospital and home births from a safety perspective.

Home birth
This is an editorial from the medical journal BMJ and is easy to follow. click here

Home versus hospital birth
This gives a summary of a Cochrane Review on the safety differences between home birth and hospital birth. click here

Outcome of planned home and planned hospital births in low risk pregnancies: prospective study in midwifery practices in the Netherlands. This is a study done in the Netherlands which investigates the relationship between where low-risk women choose to birth and their perinatal outcome. Facinating reading! click here

To find out more about homebirth and ask homebirth midwives questions it is worth going to a Home Birth Information Evening and speaking with someone on the phone. To contact the Home Birth Midwives please call them on 03 366 9590.