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“Ultimately the issue of the safety of home birth cannot be settled by research… It comes down to a matter of individual choice.  The real question about safety is not, 'do you want a pleasant birth at home or a safe birth in the hospital?'  It is, 'do you want to give birth at home and run the minuscule risk of an emergency that might (but not necessarily would) be handled better in the hospital, or do you want to give birth in the hospital and run the considerably increased risk of infection, the certainty of additional stress, and the near certainty of having unnecessary (and potentially risky) interventions?' "  ~ Henci Goer
 
Home Birth in the USA
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Keep Home Birth Legal Petition

“What is the purpose of this petition?  To be proactive and let the AMA and ACOG know that women are watching and speaking out against this course of action which might, if enacted, jeopardize our rights to privacy, bodily integrity, and the rights to choose our birth attendant and place of birth.  There is a lot of debate about what this Resolution 205 would actually mean, and how it would be enforced.  There is very little question though, that it represents a movement against women’s rights, and therefore demands our vigilance and attention.” From Michal This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Read More and sign the petition

Don’t forget to click on the signatures tab on the website to read the comments and see how many signatures there are.  As of July 14, 2008, there were over 10,800 signatures!  (mine is #10,824)
 

Why Homebirth/ HBAC?

From VBACfacts.com:  I don’t think homebirth is for everyone, so I wanted to share my story of how I went from “homebirth is for wackos” to “wow, I feel safer at home,” because I think the transition in thought is fascinating. And before I decided to homebirth, I never understood how someone could make that decision. It is a gigantic mental leap.  READ MORE
 
Outcomes of Planned Home Births with CPMs in North America

A 2005 article from the British Medical Journal.

Kenneth C Johnson, Betty-Anne Daviss

Planned home birth for low risk women in North America using certified professional midwives was associated with lower rates of medical intervention but similar intrapartum and neonatal mortality to that of low risk hospital births in the United States. 

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