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[quote=Anonymous]Studies showing that planned midwife births at home have significantly higher death rates:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32044310/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37164501/

And one from Italy looking at post-natal ER admission for home births:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40004712/

Also, you can't just look at overall adverse outcomes in hospitals, as that will include all the very high risk patients (drug addicts, women with serious health conditions, twins or larger, breech presentation, placenta previa, etc.) and also likely will include rural hospitals that don't have real OB departments, and ERs receiving women transferred in after failed attempt at labor in birthing centers or at home.

I really disagree that at this point hospitals are giving a lot of unnecessary interventions.  My sisters had 9 kids in hospital with zero intervention and zero pain medications.  Gone are the days when they just gave you pitocin so the doctor could make his tee time, or did unnecessary episiotomies.  Most OBs are women and care a lot about women's health.  If they are saying a C is necessary, it's because they are worried about possible brain damage to the baby, or death/disability to you.

But hospitals are like flying -- a significant number of people have irrational anxiety about it and so they will make choices that are statistically less safe (like driving across country instead of flying -- both probably will work out fine, but one has a greater likelihood of adverse outcome).
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