All the talk about home birth is because it is well documented to be the safest way to birth your baby, at home with a midwife. Pesce hasn't any stats to back him up, just anecdotes about when he was working in a third world country. There was the Bastien study which wasn't put together properly and was immediately shown to be totally wrong. However, There are a few Obs who will quote this conveniently forgetting it has no credit. But of course it suits them to do it.

All over the world most of which homebirth with a midwife is totally acceptable the stats show that it is the safest way to birth your baby. You only have to look at the figures for the country and then locally at a hospital near you to realise this. the WCH Adelaide have a 11 per 1000 neonatal mortality rate, these are figures that haven't changed for more than 20 years but our section rate has more than doubled and our induction rate is huge.

With intervention comes many complications, difficulty breast feeding, bonding. Difficulty in baby settling and dis empowerment of women causing depression.
These things are not made up by mad hippie's they are solid well researched evidence based facts.

Lisa Barrett
Midwife