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evidence-based information, research, etc...

Also see the following research sites:

Understanding Birth Better

Home Birth and Home Birth Safety Research
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We undertake original research on

home birth & home birth safety.

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We locate, evaluate and synthesize epidemiologic research evidence from the scientific medical literature to better understand the risks and benefits of a low-intervention approach to birth, as provided primarily by midwives to low-risk pregnant women during pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

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We produce evidence regarding the safety of home birth and make it available

for the benefit of mothers, midwives, legislators and other groups.

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The Cochrane Collaboration

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international, independent, not-for-profit organization of over 28,000 contributors from more than 100 countries, dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects

of health care readily available worldwide.

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      We are world leaders in evidence-based health care

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Our contributors work together to produce systematic reviews of healthcare interventions, known as Cochrane Reviews, which are published online in The Cochrane Library. Cochrane Reviews are intended to help providers, practitioners and patients make informed decisions about health care, and are the most comprehensive, reliable and relevant source of

evidence on which to base these decisions.




Our mission
The Campbell Collaboration (C2) helps people make well-informed decisions by preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews in education, crime and justice, and social welfare.

Who are we?
The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions. Campbell is based on voluntary cooperation among researchers of a variety of backgrounds.


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Childbirth Connection is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1918 as Maternity Center Association. Our mission is to improve the quality of maternity care through
research, education, advocacy and policy.


Childbirth Connection promotes safe, effective and satisfying evidence-based maternity
care and is a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing families.




"If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock market. The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically. Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence..."

Gabrielle Palmer,
The Politics of Breastfeeding,
London: Pandora Press, 1988, page 1




The LARGEST study

to date on the

safety of home birth

from the Netherlands...








Birth. 1997 Mar;24(1):4-13; discussion 14-6.

Olsen O.

Department of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.









CDC Reports an Increase

in Home Births

(click on the document to the right)











 

 

 



Open Letter to Producers of the Today Show





Another study showing the safety of home birth
<click the article from the Canadian Medical Association Journal below>





The M.A.M.A. Campaign

This partnership is now at work to gain federal recognition of
Certified Professional Midwives (CPM) so that women and families
will have increased access to quality, affordable maternity care
in the settings of their choice.




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M.A.M.A...... Midwives and Mothers in Action

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Promoting the Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) credential.The MAMA campaign is a collaborative effort by the National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM), Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), Citizens for Midwifery (CfM), the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC), the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM), and the Midwifery Education Accreditation Council (MEAC).

This partnership is now at work to gain federal recognition of Certified Professional Midwives so that women and families will have increased access to quality, affordable maternity care in the settings of their choice. We will be sending out information about the ways that you can take action for CPMs. Please consider endorsing the campaign, making a donation, and sharing your birth story on our web site listed below.


Midwives and Mothers in Action



The beatnik turned natural birth expert

Viv Groskop meets a 'far-out' midwife who has become a guru to celebrities.

But is delivering a breech baby feet first without pain relief really a good idea?


The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/)











Midwife Monologues Blog by Brynn Potter, CPM, LM









     Read about the safety of Home Birth with the CPM:    
 Certified Professional Midwife, in the British Medical Journal 

Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America

















Baby Bled to Death After Circumcision





Home births 'as safe as hospital'

The largest study of its kind has found that for low-risk women,

giving birth at home is as safe as doing so in hospital with a midwife.








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DAILY WOMEN'S HEALTH POLICY REPORT


PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH | Time Magazine Examines Risks Associated With Repeat Caesareans
[Feb. 25, 2009]




Read the Time article...

The Trouble with Repeat Cesareans













Supporting Access to Midwifery Services in the United States

Position Paper ~Policy Date: 1/1/2000


The Cochrane Collection...