Saturday, February 9, 2008

ACOG, Home-birth, Responses

ACOG Statement on out of hospital birth.

Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology's long held stance.

An interesting site with some links and bits about the actual safety of home-birth.

BMJ study regarding the safety of home-birth.

A summary of the study from gentle birth archives.

The gentle birth archives home-birth safety/advocacy page.

Some blog responses to the re-statement from ACOG:

Pushed Birth

The True Face of Birth

More Interesting Stuff From You Tube



Although the subject is cleary on her back this is a pretty neat animation of normal vaginal birth.


This video gives a good view of the stations you are often given in late pregnancy.