However, women with diabetes, a history of heart problems, mental instability or previous abdominal operations are discouraged from home births. First-time mothers are less likely to give birth at ...

The vast majority of children in the United States are born in a hospital, but the number of planned home births has gone up significantly in the past few years. At the root of this growing trend ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s ... Yet middle-class women felt the pressure of the culture telling them to stay home. Many also had little desire to work in the nine-to-five jobs open to ...

The most common reasons given for wanting to birth at home were: 1) safety (n = 38); 2) avoidance of unnecessary medical interventions common in hospital births (n = 38); 3) previous negative ...