Walker, J orcid.org/0000-0002-8922-083X (2017) Planned home birth. Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 43. pp. 76-86. ISSN 1521-6934
Abstract
With increasing medical advances and the ability to rescue the mother and her baby, there has been a growth in the number of women who deliver in hospital facilities. This allows the full care to be provided if required. Maternal and perinatal mortality has fallen accordingly. This improvement in mother and baby outcomes has produced a conception of maternity safety in the developed world and a call for the return to homebirth. This has concerned the obstetricians and particularly the paediatricians who feel that this produces unacceptable risk to the mother and her baby. However, evidence, mostly from Europe but some from the US, suggest that home birth can be relatively safe in the right circumstances. This needs a fully integrated comprehensive maternity care network that is supportive and responsive. The question should this be supported to help improve the safety of home birth or resisted since home birth in many situations is inherently unsafe.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Home birth; maternal mortality; perinatal mortality; maternity networks; ethical choice; midwifery; obstetrics |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Inst of Biomed & Clin Sciences (LIBACS) (Leeds) > Obstetrics & Gynaecology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2017 11:59 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2018 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2017.06.001 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:117957 |