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Homebirths on the Rise
In the context of increasingly public physician opposition to women’s choice for a home birth, the number of home births in the United States rose 20 percent from 2004 to 2008, according to research publishing in the journal Birth. According to the study, 27 states saw significant increases in the number of home births during that time period, while only four states saw declines. With a national cesarean rate of 34%, the incidence of home births is likely to increase. Read the abstract. Read a news article.
Check out this terrific interview with Robbie David-Floyd about homebirths.
To find out more about home birth, visit the Citizens for Midwifery’s website where you can:
- Download the CfM TOOLKIT: Stand Up for Healthy Birth & Home Birth, a tool for grassroots organizing and advocacy.
- Download the Home Birth Annotated Guide to the Literature, April 2011.
- Download the Power Point presentation or view the archived video, Home Birth and the Public Health Response: Promoting Informed Choices and Healthy Outcomes, by Eugene DeClerq and Mairi Breen-Rothman from the John Hopkins-Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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