Home Birth Safe But Support Services Needed, UK

Responding to research on home births published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dame Karlene Davis, General Secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, said: “The research is welcome, but it is far from conclusive. Women planning a home birth should not be worried, because with the proper support and resources in place a home birth is safe. “The nature of transfer means that complications are anticipated or evident.

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Filed under: Nursing on April 3rd, 2008