Out-of-Hospital Births Increase After 15-Year Decline, Government Report States

Reversing a 15-year trend, the percentage of infants born at home rose slightly in 2005 and remained stable in 2006, according to a report published Wednesday in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics Reports, USA Today reports. Marian MacDorman, a demographer at CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, said it is not clear what caused the slight increase…

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