Home birth safe for low risk women

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Having a baby at home is as safe as having a hospital birth, but only for women at low risk, a new study indicates.However, the researchers added that the safety of home birth has to be considered in the context of the availability of local services.The Dutch study, which involved more than half a million women, compared planned home births with planned hospital births and looked at the risk of intrapartum death (occurring during labour and delivery), neonatal death (in the first 28 days of life), and admission to neonatal intensive care.“The number of babies that died or were admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit was the same in both groups (seven per 1000),” the researchers found.
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