Appendix: birth can safely take place at home and in birthing centers: the coalition for improving maternity services:.
Although most women in the United States give birth in hospitals, a substantial body of research suggests that planned home birth or birth in freestanding birth centers have equally good or better outcomes for low-risk women. Out-of-hospital birth often facilitates mother-friendly care. Rationales and systematic reviews of both home birth and freestanding birth center birth are presented.
MAYRI SAGADY LESLIE is a faculty member in the School of Nursing at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She is also a member of the CIMS Leadership Team. AMY ROMANO completed her nurse-midwifery training at Yale University School of Nursing and has practiced in a birth center and in the home setting. She is currently a resident expert and the Web site editor of the Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth (www.normalbirth.lamaze.org).
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