Maternal and perinatal
outcomes by planned place of birth among women with low-risk pregnancies
in high-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0266613818300974
This is a paper by Vanessa Scarfe and colleagues [Australia] looking at the combined outcomes of 28 studies involving more than half a million women across a number of countries. It demonstrates that the evidence for the safety of home or birth centre for birth for low risk women is broad, substantial and clear. Not that this hasn't been known and shown before, but it is good to remind the world of this at regular intervals, given the continued commitment of the anti-homebirth, anti-normal birth, anti-midwife lobby to their Project Fear agenda (for example but by no means the only example, Amy Tuteur's regular pseudo-skeptical pronouncements e.g.http://www.skepticalob.com/2014/04/just-how-dangerous-is-childbirth.html
and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnYRie_neROaEuTQslggVvg )
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