Planned Place of Birth in New Zealand: Does it Affect Mode of Birth and Intervention Rates Among Low-Risk Women?

Abstract

Planned place of birth has a significant influence on mode of birth and rates of intrapartum intervention in childbirth.

Maternal Results From Planned Home Births Assisted by Nurses From the Hanami Team in the South of Brazil, 2002-2012

“…4,6,10,12-13, [23][24][25][26] One of the limitations for discussing the present study's findings is the meager publication of quantitative Brazilian data regarding assistance at home so as to compare the results obtained. [10][11]19 In relation to the sociodemographic characteristics, the age range of the majority of the women was below that found in the international studies (between 30 and 34 years old) [26][27][28][29][30] and in another Brazilian study (30-35 years old). 10 The high educational level is in consonance with another Brazilian study, in which 62.8% of the women assisted at home had a higher education, 10 and with one international study.…”

“…[3][4]6,12,[23][24][26][27][28][29][30]32,34 However, one can observe an increase in the number of multiparous women who opted for home birth (Figure 2), which may result from the satisfaction with the previous experience of birth at home, and from the dissatisfaction of women who gave birth for the first time in hospital.…”

“…[3][4]24,29,32 In Brazil, only a small number of home births are attended through the Unified Health System (SUS), being undertaken by the team from the Sofia Feldman Hospital. 33 Other countries support this type of attendance as an integral part of their Health Systems, as is the case with Holland, 4 Australia, 26 Canada, 5 New Zealand 30 and the United Kingdom.…”

Safety of non-medically led primary maternity care models: a critical review of the international literature

“…Five of these studies used aggregated data from national birth registers or midwifery databases to achieve sample sizes large enough for comparative analysis with standard hospital care. [20][21][22][23] These very large cohort studies were undertaken in Canada, New Zealand and the Netherlands. The sixth smaller UK study analysed survey data, 24 the seventh small rural Australian study examined locally recorded birth data.…”

“…Findings from a New Zealand study concurred, reporting that newborns of women planning to give birth in secondary and tertiary hospitals had a higher risk of admission to NICU. 21 A study reporting findings of a multicountry meta-analysis by Wax et al claimed a tripling of the neonatal mortality rate in planned home birth compared with planned hospital birth. 36 …”