progressed, a placental abruption may occur or a prolapsed umbilical cord drop through the cervix. Although such complications affect only 1% to 1.5% of pregnancies, if you don’t have the capacity to deal with them, it’s catastrophic for the fetus,” said Lawrence, who has delivered 7000 babies. Mairi BreenRothman, CNM,MSN,who has a home birth practice in the Washington, DC, area and is a board member of the AmericanCollegeofNurse-Midwives,agreed that rare complicationsarehandled faster in ahospital. “But therearealso risks in thehospital that don’t exist at home—a hospitalacquired, antibiotic-resistant infectionor an adverse reaction to regional anesthesia,” she wrote in an email.
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