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Safety of Homebirth Information and Resources

1. The Assault on Normal Birth: The OB Disinformation Campaign
2. Babies Are Conscious
3. Birth by the Numbers
4. Birth Misconceptions - Myth or Fact
5. BMJ No 7068 General Practice Paper
6. Childbearing year: Making informed decisions
7. Citizens for Midwifery - Information on newly published study on safety of homebirth with CPM's.
8. Corroborating Citations on the Safety of Homebirth
9. Education and Testing Experts Assess the CPM Credentialing Process
10. FAQ’s About Midwives and Midwifery Care
11. Giving Birth at Home - Sarah Buckley
12. A good midwife makes giving birth at home as safe as in hospital
13. Having a Baby? Ten Questions to Ask
14. The History of Midwifery and Childbirth - A Time Line
15. History of Midwives - Canada
16. The Homebirth Choice
17. Home Birth and Out-of-Hospital Birth: Is it Safe?
18. Homebirth: Is it really a safe option?
19. Home Birth Literature Review
20. Home Birth Matters by Sheila Kitzinger
21. Home Birth Reference Site
22. Home Birth: The rest of the story
23. Home Birth Research Index
24. Homebirth-USA
25. Homebirth: What Are the Issues?
26. How Childbirth Went Industrial: A Deconstruction by Henci Goer
27. Is Homebirth Safe? by Henci Goer
28. Is Homebirth for You?
29. Homebirth under fire: What the headlines don't say
30. Infant Mortality Rate - Rank Order (US = 42) - CIA - The World Factbook
31. Journal Abstracts: Homebirth safety; Waterbirth safety; Risks of High-tech Intervention
32. Lamaze International Response to New ACOG Out-of-Hospital Birth Policy Statement
33. The Medical Literature on the Safety of Home Birth
34. Midwives and Homebirth
35. Monty Python - Hospital Sketch - Birth
36. Mothering Magazine -- There's no Place Like Home
37. Mothering Magazine -- Homebirth under fire
38. My Best Birth
39. Questions to ask your Care Provider
40. Questions to ask a homebirth midwife
41. The Rights of Childbearing Women
42. The Safety of Homebirth: The Farm Study
43. Technology in Birth: First Do No Harm by Marsden Wagner, M.D.
44. Ten Things to Love About Homebirth - Sarah Buckley
45. Times Article - Giving Birth at Home - 8/08
46. What to Ask When Deciding Where to Have Your Baby
47. When Research is Flawed: Critiques of Influential Research Studies by Henci Goer
48. Why Have Natural Childbirth?

1. Aqua Baby: Birth at Home in a Tub
2. The Benefits Of Birth In Water
3. Common Questions About Water Birth
4. Concerns over the Safety of Waterbirth
5. Experience of pain and analgesia with water and land births
6. Giving Birth In Water Q&A
7. Is Giving Birth in Water Safe for Mother & Baby?
8. History of Waterbirth
9. Hydrotherapy in labor
10. Immersion in Water During Labour and Birth
11. Journal Abstracts: Homebirth safety; Waterbirth safety; Risks of High-tech Intervention
12. A Landmark in the History of Birthing Pools
13. Maternal and neonatal infections and obstetrical outcome in water birth
14. A Midwife's Perspective: Labor and Birth in the Water
15. Perinatal mortality and morbidity among babies delivered in water
16. Observing position and movements in hydrotherapy: a pilot study
17. Off Her Back
18. Randomised controlled trial of labouring in water compared with standard of augmentation for management of dystocia in first stage of labour
19. Warm Welcome: A Water Birth Revolution
20. Waterbirths compared with landbirths: an observational study of nine years
21. Waterbirths: a comparative study. A prospective study on more than 2,000 waterbirths
22. Waterbirth Discussion
23. Waterbirth Abstracts
24. Waterbirth FAQ
25. Water birth, more than a trendy alternative: a prospective, observational study
26. Water delivery--a 5-year retrospective study
27. What I Learned From the First Hospital Birthing Pool
28. What the research says about waterbirth
29. Why Waterbirth - A Gentle Beginning for a New Life