Recent Articles
Posted By: Henci Goer, BA
Tue May 16th, 2017
The number of families that are choosing community birth (home or freestanding birth center) is increasing every year. What can healthy low-risk people do to avoid the interventions that make choosing a hospital birth potentially less safe for this specific population?
Posted By: Henci Goer, BA
Mon Jan 4th, 2016
Last week, a new study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Planned out-of-hospital birth and birth outcomes.” This study looked at the safety of home birth using Oregon State birth certificate data and once again brought up the unclear debate on the safety of home birth.
Posted By: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD(DONA), BDT(DONA), CLE
Mon Sep 14th, 2015
Planned Home VBAC in the United States, 2004–2009: Outcomes, Maternity Care Practices, and Implications for Shared Decision Making” came out on August 26th as an e-pub ahead of print in the journal Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care. It provides a much-needed analysis of VBACs in the home setting
Posted By: Henci Goer, BA
Wed Feb 25th, 2015
An article in The New York Times Opinion Pages – Room for Debate was released on February 24th, 2015. As customary in this style of article, the NYT asks a variety of experts to provide essays on the topic at hand, in this case, the safety of home birth. Henci Goer, author and international speaker
Posted By: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD(DONA), BDT(DONA), CLE
Mon Oct 6th, 2014
Please join Lamaze International and Science & Sensibility as we celebrate National Midwifery Week. Midwives can and should play an integral part of healthy and safe birth practices here in the United States and around the world. Maternal infant health organizations and consumers alike are
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