Birth Outcomes for Planned Home and Licensed Freestanding Birth Center Births in Washington State.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe rates of maternal and perinatal birth outcomes for community births and to compare outcomes by planned place of birth (home vs state-licensed, freestanding birth center) in a Washington State birth cohort, where midwifery practice and integration mirrors international settings.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study including all births attended by members of a statewide midwifery professional association that were within professional association guidelines and met eligibility criteria for planned birth center birth (term gestation, singleton, vertex fetus with no known fluid abnormalities at term, no prior cesarean birth, no hypertensive disorders, no prepregnancy diabetes), from January 1, 2015 through June 30, 2020. Outcome rates were calc

SUBMITTER: Nethery E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8522628 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature