Our home birth information hub – the latest research on the safety of home birth and links to many of Dr Sara Wickham’s articles and blog posts on this.
Is home birth safe?
Tag: hospital birth
More evidence on how to keep birth normal
Evidence-based approaches to determining the onset of active labour, assessing progress of labour and determining dystocia may safely decrease intervention.
Further confirmation of home birth safety
A systematic review and meta-analysis has further confirmed the safety of home birth for healthy women, even if they are having their first baby.
Pondering Domesticity…
Pondering domesticity: what is domesticity, where is the joy in it and research looking at how domesticity dictates behaviour in the birth space
Why it’s not necessarily about you, and caesareans for profit
A systematic review and meta-analysis has looked at the relationship between the caesarean section rate and the for-profit status of the hospital.
Birth centres are a safe option even when transfer is involved
Birth centres – or freestanding midwifery units – are a safe and reasonable option for mothers and babies which also reduce caesareans.
Eight ways of promoting active birth through bedlessness…
Sara Wickham offers practice suggestions of ways of promoting active birth by moving away from the delivery bed as a place on which to give birth.
Who is most at risk of caesarean section?
Who is most at risk of caesarean? Sara Wickham looks at research which highlights women who may need particular protection from unnecessary surgery.
Birth Centres work in Australia too!
Women who plan to birth at Australian birth centres significantly more likely to have spontaneous vaginal birth and less likely to have a caesarean.
Yay for the Barkantine!
Women who booked their care at the Barkantine Birth Centre had better outcomes and rated their care more highly than women who booked at the hospital.