title: [Homebirth in Czech Republic].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Present an overview of the situation concerning childbirth outside medical facilities in the Czech Republic.
  
  
  METHODS
  Overview, statistics.
  
  
  METHODS
  Private midwife, Prague.
  
  
  METHODS
  Overview of statistical data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Planned home birth assisted by an experienced provider of health care under continuous risk evaluation is a secure alternative to childbirth in hospitals. Moreover, home births show less interventions, use of medicaments and birth injuries.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Czech laws and regulations provide no legal framework for delivering health care by midwives during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period. Hence, the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms is infringed, since women are denied rights to choose the place, procedure and provider of care.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Konigsmarkova
mesh_terms: D018153:Czech Republic; D005260:Female; D006700:Home Childbirth / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy