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Women Are Choosing Home Birth: The Infant-Maternal Health Care System in the U.S. Owes Them A Safe Option

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Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 10:19am

In the face of increasing home birth rates and declining maternal health outcomes in hospitals, society owes it to families to ensure safe birth options, regardless of the setting.

New and Sometimes Conflicting Research on Out-of-Hospital Birth

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Thursday, January 7, 2016 - 7:20am

In the past month, two new studies have been released - one in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the other in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) - examining out-of-hospital birth outcomes. The CMAJ study examined 2006-09 provincial health records while the NEJM study analyzed two years of Oregon vital statistics data.

Home Birth Research Q & A

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Friday, February 7, 2014 - 9:49am

We’ve had lots of questions from families, midwives, and others about the recent release of two articles that were based on the Midwives Alliance of North America dataset (MANA Stats). Here are answers to some common questions, along with a roundup of some of the coverage.

New Studies Confirm Safety of Home Birth With Midwives in the U.S.

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Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 4:00am

by Geradine Simkins, CNM, MSN, Executive Director, Midwives Alliance of North America

MANA Statistics Project Update

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Friday, January 24, 2014 - 8:16am

We’re incredibly excited to tell you that on January 30th, next Thursday, the much-anticipated outcomes from our MANA Stats 2004-2009 dataset will be publicly released.

Two articles will be published in the upcoming Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health: one describes the MANA Stats system and how it works, and the other describes the outcomes of planned home births with midwives between 2004 and 2009.

Guest Post at Science & Sensibility on Home Birth Safety Research

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Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 10:28am

Have you been following the debate about the recent press release by the authors of a new study, suggesting that babies born at home had a 10-fold higher death rate than babies born in the hospital?

We hope you'll check out today's Science and Sensibility post, where Wendy Gordon shares with Lamaze's readers "why the recent home birth research using 5 minute Apgar scores does not produce reliable data that consumers can use to make a decision on where they would like to give birth."