Appendix: Birth Can Safely Take Place at
Home and in Birthing Centers
The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services:
Mayri Sagady Leslie, MSN, CNM
Amy Romano, MSN, CNM
This article, which is actually an appendix provides a lot of useful statistics surrounding home births and birthing centers. These statistics will be useful in my (planned) pro-home/birthing centers argument because they present the information in that fashion.
Episiotomy, Hospital Birth and Cesarean Section: Technology gone haywire.
Cohain, Judy Slome | Midwifery Today
and
Getting Back to Nature: Non-Medical Birth Options in Athens, Greece.
Nusbaum, Julie | Midwifery Today
These articles are complimentary, as they both highlight the dangers of mothers opting for, or getting a medical recommendation for cesarean sections. The first article has most of the information useful to me, and the second shows how home births and more natural trends are occurring in another part of the world also.
Domesticating Birth in the Hospital:
“Family-Centered” Birth and the Emergence of “Homelike” Birthing Rooms Maria Fannin
This is the most comprehensive article I have seen about birthing centers, how they got started, and their popularity over the years. It also goes into the controversy of home versus hospital births, and the way that birthing centers offer an "in-between" option.
Trials of Labour : The Re-Emergence of Midwifery
Burtch, Brian | McGill-Queen's University Press
This ebrary book is based on studies done in Canada, which gives yet another example of how this trend is occurring worldwide (in developed countries). This is a good source because it describes how midwifery went into a decline after the spread of hospitals and is now re-emerging.
Home and in Birthing Centers
The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services:
Mayri Sagady Leslie, MSN, CNM
Amy Romano, MSN, CNM
This article, which is actually an appendix provides a lot of useful statistics surrounding home births and birthing centers. These statistics will be useful in my (planned) pro-home/birthing centers argument because they present the information in that fashion.
Episiotomy, Hospital Birth and Cesarean Section: Technology gone haywire.
Cohain, Judy Slome | Midwifery Today
and
Getting Back to Nature: Non-Medical Birth Options in Athens, Greece.
Nusbaum, Julie | Midwifery Today
These articles are complimentary, as they both highlight the dangers of mothers opting for, or getting a medical recommendation for cesarean sections. The first article has most of the information useful to me, and the second shows how home births and more natural trends are occurring in another part of the world also.
Domesticating Birth in the Hospital:
“Family-Centered” Birth and the Emergence of “Homelike” Birthing Rooms Maria Fannin
This is the most comprehensive article I have seen about birthing centers, how they got started, and their popularity over the years. It also goes into the controversy of home versus hospital births, and the way that birthing centers offer an "in-between" option.
Trials of Labour : The Re-Emergence of Midwifery
Burtch, Brian | McGill-Queen's University Press
This ebrary book is based on studies done in Canada, which gives yet another example of how this trend is occurring worldwide (in developed countries). This is a good source because it describes how midwifery went into a decline after the spread of hospitals and is now re-emerging.
