Best Practices in Midwifery, 2nd Edition
Using the Evidence to Implement Change
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Dedication Contributors Foreword Preface Section I: Advancing Midwifery Care Section II: Midwifery Care: The Evidence for Optimal Outcomes Chapter Four: Facilitating Access to Midwifery-Led Prenatal and Postpartum Care Chapter Five: Nutrition and Epigenetics in Pregnancy Chapter Six: Evidence-Based Midwifery Care for Obese Childbearing Women Chapter Seven: Weight Management Counseling With Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women Chapter Eight: Maternal Concerns and Knowledge About Vaccination During Pregnancy: Counseling Childbearing Women Chapter Nine: Women in Migration: Best Practices in Midwifery Chapter Ten: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes: The Challenge to Midwifery Chapter Eleven: Circles of Change: CenteringPregnancy®, Health Disparities, and Vulnerable Women Chapter Twelve: Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Maximizing Midwifery Care Chapter Thirteen: Mind–Body Practices: Integration in the Midwifery Model of Care Chapter Fourteen: The Freestanding Birth Center: Evidence for Change in the Delivery of Health Care to Childbearing Families Chapter Fifteen: Creating a Birth Center: Entrepreneurial Midwifery Chapter Sixteen: Home as the Place of Birth: The Evidence for Safety
Section III: The Intrapartal Period: Using the Evidence Chapter Seventeen: Therapeutic Presence and Continuous Labor Support: Hallmarks of Midwifery Chapter Eighteen: Untethering in Labor: Using the Evidence for Best Practice Chapter Nineteen: Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: Emotion and Reason Chapter Twenty: The Limits of Choice: Elective Induction and Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request Chapter Twenty-One: Evidence-Based Management of Prelabor Rupture of the Membranes at Term Chapter Twenty-Two: The Midwife as Catalyst: Promoting Institutional Change With Intrapartum Immersion Hydrotherapy Chapter Twenty-Three: Nitrous Oxide’s Place in Labor and Birth Chapter Twenty-Four: Management of the Third Stage of Labor: Implementing Best Practices
Section IV: Collaborative Practice: The Evidence for Best Practices Chapter Twenty-Five: The Role of Midwifery in Mobilizing Communities to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes Chapter Twenty-Six: The Evidence for Interprofessional Education in Midwifery Chapter Twenty-Seven: Creating a Collaborative Working Environment Chapter Twenty-Eight: Conclusion: Policy and Advocacy—Fostering Best Practices in a Dynamic Health Care Environment
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Chapter Sixteen: Home as the Place of Birth: The Evidence for Safety
Dedication Contributors Foreword Preface Section I: Advancing Midwifery Care Section II: Midwifery Care: The Evidence for Optimal Outcomes Chapter Four: Facilitating Access to Midwifery-Led Prenatal and Postpartum Care Chapter Five: Nutrition and Epigenetics in Pregnancy Chapter Six: Evidence-Based Midwifery Care for Obese Childbearing Women Chapter Seven: Weight Management Counseling With Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women Chapter Eight: Maternal Concerns and Knowledge About Vaccination During Pregnancy: Counseling Childbearing Women Chapter Nine: Women in Migration: Best Practices in Midwifery Chapter Ten: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Birth Outcomes: The Challenge to Midwifery Chapter Eleven: Circles of Change: CenteringPregnancy®, Health Disparities, and Vulnerable Women Chapter Twelve: Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Maximizing Midwifery Care Chapter Thirteen: Mind–Body Practices: Integration in the Midwifery Model of Care Chapter Fourteen: The Freestanding Birth Center: Evidence for Change in the Delivery of Health Care to Childbearing Families Chapter Fifteen: Creating a Birth Center: Entrepreneurial Midwifery Chapter Sixteen: Home as the Place of Birth: The Evidence for Safety
Section III: The Intrapartal Period: Using the Evidence Chapter Seventeen: Therapeutic Presence and Continuous Labor Support: Hallmarks of Midwifery Chapter Eighteen: Untethering in Labor: Using the Evidence for Best Practice Chapter Nineteen: Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: Emotion and Reason Chapter Twenty: The Limits of Choice: Elective Induction and Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request Chapter Twenty-One: Evidence-Based Management of Prelabor Rupture of the Membranes at Term Chapter Twenty-Two: The Midwife as Catalyst: Promoting Institutional Change With Intrapartum Immersion Hydrotherapy Chapter Twenty-Three: Nitrous Oxide’s Place in Labor and Birth Chapter Twenty-Four: Management of the Third Stage of Labor: Implementing Best Practices
Section IV: Collaborative Practice: The Evidence for Best Practices Chapter Twenty-Five: The Role of Midwifery in Mobilizing Communities to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes Chapter Twenty-Six: The Evidence for Interprofessional Education in Midwifery Chapter Twenty-Seven: Creating a Collaborative Working Environment Chapter Twenty-Eight: Conclusion: Policy and Advocacy—Fostering Best Practices in a Dynamic Health Care Environment
DOI:
10.1891/9780826131799.0016
Authors
- Rooks, Judith P.
- Ulrich, Suzan
Abstract
This chapter summarizes the best available evidence to compare the safety, risks, and benefits of planned home births with the safety, risks, and benefits of births planned to occur in hospitals. The increasing proportion of out-of-hospital (OOH) births in the United States is entirely due to non-Hispanic White women who began to have more OOH births, whereas OOH births were declining among all other major racial and ethnic groups of American women. Midwives attended two thirds of all home births in the United States. Certified nurse-midwives (CNM) and certified midwives (CM) in the United States meet the educational standards of the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and are certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board. They can practice in hospitals, birth centers, or home settings. Home births attended by midwives are part of state-sponsored health care in many high-resource countries such as Canada, England, Japan and Australia.