Home Birth - A woman's choice for natural childbirth - Advantages and risks

• Introduction
• Abortion
• Amenorrhoea
• Birth Control
• Bladder Symptoms
• Cancer in Women
• Childbirth
• Normal Labour
• Normal Labour Management
• Home Birth
• Water Birth
• Partogram
• Pain Relief
• Epidurals
• Active Management
• Episiotomy & Vaginal Tears
• Abnormal Labour - Dystocia
• Induction of Labor
• Fetal Monitoring
• Operative Vaginal Delivery
• Ventouse
• Forceps
• Breech Birth
• Shoulder Dystocia
• Cesarean Section Rate
• Diet / Weight Loss
• Dysmenorrhoea
• Endometriosis
• Fibroids
• HRT
• Hirsutism
• Hysterectomy
• Infections
• Infertility
• Medication Drugs
• Menopause
• Menorrhagia
• Miscarriage
• Painful Sex
• Pap Smear Test
• PCOS
• Pelvic Pain
• PMS
• Postpartum
• Pregnancy
• Self Esteem
• Sexual Problems
• Vaginal Discharge
• Vaginal Prolapse
• Vulval Symptoms

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Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2000;(2):CD000352.

Home versus hospital birth.
Olsen O, Jewell MD.

The Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, dept. 7112, Copenhagen, Denmark, DK-2100 O. o.olsen@cochrane.dk

Background:

A meta-analysis of observational studies have suggested that planned home birth may be safe and with less interventions than planned hospital birth. OBJECTIVES: The objective of this review was to assess the effects of planned home birth compared to hospital birth on the rates of interventions, complications and morbidity as determined in randomised trials.

Search Strategy:

We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group trials register and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register. Date of last search: September 1999. SELECTION CRITERIA: Controlled trials comparing planned hospital birth to planned home birth in selected women, assisted by an experienced home birth practitioner, and backed up by a modern hospital system in case transfer should be necessary.

Data Collection and Analysis:

Trial quality was assessed and data were extracted by one reviewer and checked by the other reviewer. Study authors were contacted for additional information. MAIN

Results:

One study involving 11 women was included. The trial was of reasonable quality, but was too small to be able to draw conclusions. REVIEWER'S

Conclusions:

There is no strong evidence to favour either planned hospital birth or planned home birth for low risk pregnant women.

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