Why Not Home?

Here is some published data from The Lancet, 2020, highlighting benefits of home birth:

• 40% less likely to have a caesarean birth

• 50% less likely to have an instrumental birth (forceps, vacuum)

• 70% less likely to have an epidural

• 55% less likely to have an episiotomy

• 40% less likely to have a third or fourth degree tear

• 60% less likely to have labor augmented using synthetic oxytocin (Pitocin)

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