I doubt I could ever possibly change your mind on this subject but I would like to point out that official statistics on out-of-hospital births are tainted. Homebirths have been lumped together with unplanned, out-of-hospital deliveries. Which would include teenagers hiding a pregnancy, mothers giving birth on the way to hospital, women delivering prematurely and unexpectedly, or those who receive no antenatal care at all.

I would also like to mention that the Dutch consider homebirth quite normal and over 1/3 of all births in the Netherlands are planned for at home.

~ Candice