02/19/2026
The whole “home birth is risky” talk is something we have heard a million times, but the actual data tells a completely different story.
When you look at the research for low risk women it turns out that planning a hospital birth often leads to more interventions and complications without actually improving safety for mom or baby. In fact large scale studies show that planning a hospital birth can significantly increase your chances of things like serious bleeding or infection and it makes you more likely to end up with a c-section or an episiotomy.
The study (linked below) even points out that there is no evidence that hospital births are safer for low risk women. Instead we see that home birth drastically reduces the “cascade of interventions” while keeping outcomes just as safe.
Home birth isn’t a trend, but a research backed choice for anyone wanting a physiologic birth.
🔗: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD000352.pub3/full
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