Midwifery care and home birth with trained attendants is known to improve maternal and fetal outcomes for normal, low-risk pregnancies.
The Midwives Model of Care Includes:
The application of this woman-centered model of care has been proven to reduce the incidence of birth injury, trauma, and cesarean section.
Midwifery Task Force, May 1996
Recent studies published by Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health (Volume 59, No. 1, January/February 2014) confirm the safety of home birth with the care given by midwives.
"In today’s peer-reviewed Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health (JMWH), a landmark study** confirms that among low-risk women, planned home births result in low rates of interventions without an increase in adverse outcomes for mothers and babies…." (read full review at http://mana.org/index.php?q=blog/home-birth-safety-outcomes).
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