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About Homebirth - Parent Supply List - Information on supplies to gather for your home birth including instructions for preparation.
Citizens for Midwifery Home Birth Fact Sheet - This publication gives empirical evidence for the safety of a planned home birth with a qualified midwife, as well as outlines the benefits of a home birth. [PDF]
Considering a Home Birth - This pregnancyinfo.net article gives a brief overview of considerations of a home birth: why have a home birth, safety, midwives, emergencies and preparation.
Fish Can't See Water: The Need to Humanize Birth - This is the full text of a paper by Dr. M. Wagner that appeared in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. It discusses the problems with a medical, hospital birth, the safety of home birth, and the need to shift the care of normal pregnancies to midwives.
For a Natural Birth, There's No Place Like Home - An article discussing the advantages of having a home birth.
Home Birth Reference Site - An informational site on homebirth containing summaries of research into home birth, references, links, and recommended books.
Homebirth - Mothering Magazine provides articles, movies, discussion boards, and an "ask the experts" feature.
Homebirth - Birthing at Home - Homebirth stories, articles, photographs, and relevant links.
Homebirth - Safety and Benefits - Collection of articles and source material about homebirth.
Homebirth: A midwife Mutiny - Homebirth information, opinion and discussion with British-Australian Independent Midwife. Includes videos, photos and journals of women achieving a natural birth.
Homebirth Birth Stories - Provides stories from around the world, including accounts of twins and water births.
Homebirth Facts - Here is a brief overview of the safety, intervention levels, and transfer rates of home birth.
10 Homebirth Facts No One's Telling You - Pregnancy - Here are some facts and figures for those on-the-fence parents (and relatives) on the safety of homebirth and how it compares to hospital birth.
Homebirth Stories - This site is dedicated to featuring several different homebirth stories written from the parent's perspective.
A Natural Choice - Forum answering questions, and offering birth stories.
Pregnancy and Parenting Naturally - Pregnancy, breastfeeding, labor, and childbirth information from a natural perspective.
UnassistedHomebirth.com - Has a top 10 list of reasons to birth at home. Also has information on unassisted miscarriage and contains book reviews and book ordering information.
World Health Organization: General Aspects of Care in Labour Part 1 - This online publication discloses the position of the WHO (World Health Organization) on the place of birth (including homebirth) as well as qualified birth attendants (including midwives).
Giving birth: home can be better than hospital - This is a British Medical Journal (BMJ) page that comments on the safety and experience of home birth as opposed to hospital birth for low-risk pregnancies. (June 18, 2005)
Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America - British Medical Journal research paper evaluating the safety of home births in involving direct entry (non-nurse) midwives. (June 18, 2005)
Homebirth Under Fire: What the Headlines Don't Say - This Mothering Magazine article on comments on studies and the politics of homebirth. (March 31, 2003)
The influence of birth experience on postpartum depression: a follow-up study - This is a follow-up study published on the MWSU NURC (Missouri Western State University National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse) website of the incidence and severity of postpartum depression comparing home birth and hospital deliveries. (December 5, 1999)
The effect of birth experience on postpartum depression - This is a study on postpartum depression published on the MWSU NURC (Missouri Western State University National Undergraduate Research Clearinghouse) comparing the outcomes of women who have had home births to women who have had hospital deliveries. (December 3, 1998)
Home birth - An editorial in the British Medical Journal by Nachiel Springer and Chris Van Weel. (November 23, 1996)
Home versus hospital deliveries: follow up study of matched pairs for procedures and outcome - This is a published study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) which examines and compares the outcomes of planned home births versus planned hospital births. (November 23, 1996)
Outcome of planned home and planned hospital births in low risk pregnancies: prospective study in midwifery practices in the Netherlands - This is a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) which investigates the relation between home and hospital births and perinatal outcomes. (November 23, 1996)
Is Hospital Birth Better? - Essay commenting on the hospital treatment of women and newborns in the United States. (May 31, 1995)

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