Full Circle Midwifery Statistics
January 1, 1984 through December 31, 2020
Total planned home births: 1693
Total transports: 129 [ 7.6 % ]
Mothers transported in labor: 92
Cesareans 51 [ 3% ]
Forceps/Vacuum 9
Mothers transported within 24 hours postpartum: 23
Babies transported within 24 hours after home birth: 14
Counties: Benzie 2 Kent 14 Lake 19 Manistee 53 Mason 210 Mecosta 130 Montcalm 15 Muskegon 354 Oceana 246 Ottawa 121 Newaygo 378 Osceola 78 plus 73 births attended in Allegan, Clare, Eaton, Grand Traverse, Gratiot, Ingham, Isabella, Kalamazoo, Midland, Missaukee, Shiawassee, Wayne & Wexford.
Oldest mom 47, Youngest mom 16
First baby or first vaginal birth: 360 [ 21 % ]
Grandmultiparas (more than 7 births): 161
Twins (17 sets home born): 22 sets, 21 sets vaginally born
Presentation of baby:
Vertex (head down) 1690
Breech (11 home born) 25
Mom’s position for vaginal birth:
Side-lying 561
Semi-sitting 531
Hands and knees 285
Supine (lying down) 132
Upright (standing, squatting or birth stool) 153
Waterbirths: [36% last 5 years] 289
Lacerations with vaginal births:
None or superficial only 1155 [ 70 % ]
1st degree 400
2nd degree (into muscle) 74
3rd degree (into rectal sphincter) 1
-stitched 152
Episiotomy and stitches (8 transports; 1 HB) 9
Rupture of membranes > 24 hours (3 maternal infections): 103
Males: 900
Females: 815
Average baby’s weight (range of 3 # 12 oz. to 12# 5 oz.): 8# 2 oz.
Males circumsized: 217 [ 24 % ]
Births missed by Midwives: 72
VBACS (vaginal birth after previous csec): [ 88% successful ] 156 [19 repeat csecs ]
Screened out for home birth: 68