Home Birth Warning

Time to Reconsider Whether the NHS Should be Encouraging Home Births

Melanie Batley | Posted 25.01.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Melanie Batley

Certainly women should continue to have a choice about having a baby at home and the NHS has a proud tradition of supporting that choice by deploying midwives to assist. But perhaps it's time that parents are told that it's not without potential serious risks, instead of carrying on as though it's just as safe as having baby at the hospital. The findings from this study would certainly support that.