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Nationwide study from The Netherlands finds that home birth is safer than hospital birth.
In The Netherlands, the majority of births occur at home, not in hospitals. A study reported in the British Medical Journal found that women whose pregnancies were low-risk suffered far fewer severe negative outcomes from home than hospital births, especially after the first pregnancy.
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