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donnay
01-27-2012, 12:04 AM
US Home Births Up 29%

They're still rare, but number is rising
By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 26, 2012 6:29 PM CST

(Newser) – MSNBC's Vitals blog takes note of a trend in US births over the last decade: more are taking place at home. It cites a new government report showing that home births jumped 29% from 2004 to 2009, mostly among white women. They're still pretty rare, though, accounting for one in 90 births in that group, or 1.1%. Overall, home births accounted for only .7% (or 29,650) of the births in 2009. Even so, the rise is "surprising," writes Rita Rubin.

Generally speaking, moms who opt to give birth away from the hospital are 35 or older and already have children. Montana led the way with the highest percentage at 2.6%. “It’s women who are consciously rejecting the system,” says a Boston University professor who co-wrote the CDC report. It notes that babies born in the hospital were twice as likely to be low-weight or premature.

http://www.newser.com/story/138376/us-home-births-up-29.html

Nastynate
01-27-2012, 12:07 AM
I'm liking Montana more and more.

donnay
01-27-2012, 12:46 AM
If I had to do it all over again I would have home births. Hospitals are were people go to get sick!

KCIndy
01-30-2012, 07:05 PM
Might be the only way to keep a kid from being branded with a SSN immediately after being born.

ItsTime
01-30-2012, 07:09 PM
My mother home birthed. I was her only child born in a hospital.

Invi
01-30-2012, 07:25 PM
Planning a home birth in April. Those stats don't really surprise me.
When you tell most people you intend on not birthing in a hospital, or even a birthing center, and have no intention of having an epidural, etc, they look at you like you're insane. Some of them will try to talk you out of it; either they think it is dangerous, or they think you just can't take the pain, or both.

It's not like women did this for thousands of years or anything..

AGRP
01-30-2012, 07:29 PM
Terrorists.

flightlesskiwi
01-30-2012, 07:43 PM
woot! i'm the less than one percent!!! :D (just gave my husband an air high five!)

CaptainAmerica
01-30-2012, 07:48 PM
Its no surprise when babies get kidnapped from hospitals and the hospitals can now get a judge to court order a C-section as well as force the patient out within a day or 2.

eduardo89
01-30-2012, 07:57 PM
woot! i'm the less than one percent!!! :D (just gave my husband an air high five!)

You elitist.

123tim
01-30-2012, 09:19 PM
woot! i'm the less than one percent!!! :D (just gave my husband an air high five!)

Better look out for that 99%! I hear that they're after you. :)