title: Northampton homebirth team.
abstract: Northampton Homebirth Team commenced in April 2010, with a group of midwives dedicated to supporting women choosing to birth at home. Twenty seven months since the team commenced, the home birth rate has continued to rise at a steady sustainable rate, at the time of writing this feature reaching a monthly all time high of 9.6 per cent. The team believe that the key to their success is promoting normality, management support, maternity incident review forums and a multi professional team approach for women choosing to birth at home against medical advice. Whilst the number of women cared for is somewhat smaller that the recent Birthplace study, our statistics continually support the theory that a dedicated home birth team is more likely to limit adverse outcomes in relation to planned home births.
authors.affiliation: Northampton Homebirth Team.
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: O'Connell
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Richley
authors.forename: Babita
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Williams
mesh_terms: D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000451:nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006700:Home Childbirth / Q000451:nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008880:Midwifery / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome / Q000453:epidemiology; D011295:Prenatal Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology