Home birth provides:
- safe, familiar and private surroundings for labor and birth
- woman-centered care during pregnancy, labor, and birth
- family-oriented birth with no strangers present
- an opportunity for immediate bonding and breastfeeding
- less disruption and stress for the whole family
- affirmation that birth is a normal and profound life event
- the risk of infection
- risks from unnecessary interventions
- maternal morbidity rates from complications and interventions·
- risks from errors in hospitals
- interference in bonding and breastfeeding from hospital policies
- risks from poor staffing levels in hospitals
- the risks of tampering with the baby
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Mission Statement
To uphold the pregnancy of each woman as unique while bringing focus to the empowering process of birth and offering a woman the opportunity to determine what level of care and participation that she is comfortable with .