I've seen it work as well as drugs in some women." For women with normal, uncomplicated, low-risk pregnancies, giving birth outside the hospital can be as safe as a hospital birth. In a 1991 study ...

Normal babies are born with the instinctive ... usually within the first hour after birth. Hospital protocols can be modified to support uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact immediately after ...

The most common reasons given for wanting to birth at home were: 1) safety (n = 38); 2) avoidance of unnecessary medical interventions common in hospital births (n = 38); 3) previous negative ...

Birdsall is among a growing population of women who are foregoing the traditional labor and delivery unit in a hospital ... to a birth center, I noticed it was more regular and they were normal ...