Researchers have found a 20 percent increase in American births at home from 2004 to 2008. Most of the rise was due to an increase in home births among non-Hispanic white women.
Boston University School of Public Health Professor Eugene Declercq, a coauthor of the latest study, told WBUR’s Common Health that previous research had found the top reasons women cited for choosing delivery at home were safety, avoiding unnecessary medical intervetions and a previous bad experience at a hospital.
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