Home birth mothers 'need more support' - The Guardian 2nd March 2008

Home births are generally safe, but women need more support if things go wrong, experts said yesterday as a study showed a significant rise in the death rate of babies when mothers have to be transferred to hospital. Doctors from the National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health in London collected information on every baby that had died during labour or in the first week after birth over 10 years, in an attempt to shed light on the safety of home births. "The relative safety of a home birth versus a hospital birth has been debated for years, but uncertainty remains," they write today in BJOG: an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

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Additional Stories

The Big Question: What are the risks of home births, and are they greater than in hospital? - The Independent 2nd April 2008

Home-birth babies 'at greater risk of dying' - The Telegraph 2nd March 2008

Home birth to ward increases risk - BBC Health News 1st April 2008