http://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...165-8/fulltext
Did anybody see this?
A couple of statements stand out for me (bolding mine).
Really? The strongest? 
Deconstructing that "study" was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.
And then this:
It's easy to infer paternalism in this ("We'll be the ones to decide if home birth is safe for you, dearie") but the authors do concede to the following:
Dunno...any thoughts?
Did anybody see this?
A couple of statements stand out for me (bolding mine).
Quote:
| A recent meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology provides the strongest evidence so far that home birth can, after all, be harmful to newborn babies. |
Deconstructing that "study" was as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.And then this:
Quote:
| Women have the right to choose how and where to give birth, but they do not have the right to put their baby at risk. |
Quote:
| Hospital delivery should be the preferred method of delivery for high-risk pregnancies, even though it is not without risks—a recent study from Scotland showed that rates of neonatal death are higher in hospitals when births occur outside normal working hours. |
