Resources for Glow Midwifery Families
Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
Breastfeeding in the First Hour
Research on Home Birth
Homebirth Study One-Page Fact Sheet
A 2014 study of almost 17,000 planned home births in the United States showed that for low-risk, healthy women, having a home birth with an experienced midwife is as safe as giving birth in the hospital. In fact, home birthing individuals in the study had a very high rate of vaginal birth (95%) and low rates of intervention.
Outcomes of Planned Home Births with Certified Professional Midwives: Large Prospective Study in North America
by Kenneth C Johnson, senior epidemiologist, Betty-Anne Daviss, project manager
BMJ 2005;330:1416 (June 2005)
Closing the Theory–Practice Gap: Intrapartum Midwifery
Management of Planned Homebirths
Saraswathi Vedam, CNM, MSN, Meredith Goff, CNM, MS,
and Vicki Nolan Marnin, CNM, MSN
J Midwifery Womens Health 2007;52:291–300