Please read the blog post by Science and Sensibility About the Recently Published Home Birth Study

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Research Review: Outcomes of Care for 16,924 Planned Home Births in the United States

January 30th, 2014

Today’s post on Science & Sensibility coincides with the release of a long awaited study looking at the home birth data collected by the Midwives Alliance of North America MANAStats project, 2004-2009.  Judith Lothian, PhD, RN, LCCE, FACCE reviews the research that examines outcomes of almost 17,000 planned home births in the United States.  To date, this is the largest dataset of planned home births available. Dr. Lothian takes a look at what the research found and helps S&S readers to understand the key points of the published paper.

The post is available here 

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