Outcomes of Planned Homebirths with Certified Professional Midwives: Large Prospective Study in North America

Despite a wealth of evidence supporting planned homebirth as a safe option for women with low-risk pregnancies, the setting remains controversial in most high-resource countries. Views are particularly polarized in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with homebirths being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospitals, with admitting and discharge privileges. 
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