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Video: Hospital births safer than home births


 

Babies delivered at home by midwives are almost four times more likely to die soon after birth than if they were delivered in a hospital, according to a database study. The difference appears to be more related to location than to attendant training, study investigator Dr. Amos Grunebaum explained in a video interview, because when home births go wrong, help is just too far away.

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