Statistics

The Farm Midwifery Center: Outcomes of 2,028 pregnancies: 1970-2000


Births completed at home - 95.1%
Non-emergency transports - 3.6%
Emergency transports - 1.3%
First-time mothers - 44.7%
Women having their 6th baby or more - 5.4%
All others - 49.9%
Vaginal births - 98.6%
Cesarean sections - 1.4%

US national average for 2001 - 24.4%
Cases with no preeclampsia - 99.61%
Cases of preeclampsia - .39%
Cases with no hemorrhage - 98.2%
Cases of postpartum hemorrhage - 1.8%


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It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

-- Barbara Katz Rothman, Sociologist, Author of The Tentative Pregnancy, Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations and other books.



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