For many years I was unconvinced of the value of birth centres and home-from-home units in hospitals. I was concerned about the term home-from-home because in fact there is no place like home, and felt (and still believe) that the woman's own home is best for women with healthy pregnancies who feel safe there.
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Lesley Page (2003) studied this question.