Stay at Home Moms

STAY AT HOME MOMS Why More Women Are Forgoing the Hospital When Baby Comes Less than 1 percent of babies are born at home, but that number has seen a sharp increase in recent years. Let's explore the home birthing trend, the risks and benefits and those involved in helping bring life into the world outside a hospital setting. State of Birth Hospitals are the preferred place of birth for most parents-to-be, but it wasn't always so. HOME BIRTHS BY YEAR 95%* * Nearly all births took place outside hospitals, so this is an estimate. 100 80 44% 60 40 1% 0.72% 20 1900 1940 1969 2009 HOME BIRTHS BY YEAR While home births have dropped overall, they've risen in recent years, driven by a natural-birthing trend among white women. 0.72% 0.56% 0.8 0.7 RATES HAVE RISEN BY NEARLY 30% 0.6 IN A SHORT TIME. 0.5 2004 2009 HOME BIRTHS BY ETHNICITY White African-American Hispanic 1 in 90 1 in 357 1 in 500 HOME BIRTHS BY STATE (2009) 0.2-0.5 0.5-1 1.03-1.49 1.55-1.96 2-2.55 WA NH VT ND MT OR MN MA RI ID SD WI NY MI WY IA PA ст NJ DE MD DC NE Он NV IL IN UT CO KS VA мо NC TN Ок AZ NM SC AR MS AL GA LA Why Choose a Home Birth? The reasons women eschew hospital births include safety and control, among others. REASONS GIVEN FOR CHOOSING HOME BIRTH NUMBER OF MOTHERS (can give more than one reason) 10 20 30 40 Safety, better outcomes Intervention-free Negative previous hospital experience Control Comfortable environment Privacy Dislike hospitals, doctors O Trust in birth Better for baby Preferred caregiver Not Going It Alone Most women have help during the birthing process, even if they give birth outside a traditional medical setting. Certified nurse midwife Doula A person who has completed traditional nursing school and then gone on to complete midwifery training. Someone trained to assist emotionally during childbirth but not medically trained. Certified professional midwife A person with training in midwifery who is not a nurse. HOME BIRTHS BY TYPE OF ATTENDANT 4.8% 19.5% 42.9% 32.9% Certified nurse midwife Physician Other midwife Other attendant SOURCES • http://www.cdc.gov http://www.medscape.com nursingschoolhub.com