EBB 22 - Rise of Home Birth in the U.S.
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Recently, rates of home birth have nearly doubled in the U.S., from 0.56% to 1% today. Where is this increase in home birth coming from? How many women desire home birth, and why are they interested in this option? Listen to our podcast discussing the increasing numbers, then register for our free webinar about home birth at ebbirth.com/homebirthwebinar
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone in today's podcast we're going to talk about the rise of home birth in the |
| 0:05.2 | United States. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | My name is Rebecca Decker, and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. |
| 0:18.2 | Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals |
| 0:25.2 | across the world. |
| 0:26.6 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:29.8 | See EBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi everyone, so we're taking a few weeks break from our pain management series to focus on the topic of our upcoming webinar at evidence-based birth all about |
| 0:44.8 | home birth. Twice a year I do a free open to the public webinar for our audience |
| 0:50.3 | all about a hot topic that they choose. |
| 0:53.0 | We had an informal vote a couple of weeks ago on the evidence-based birth |
| 0:57.5 | Facebook page, and the most popular response was that people wanted me to do a webinar all about |
| 1:04.1 | the evidence on home birth. The public webinars will take place live at two |
| 1:09.4 | different dates and times. We have one scheduled for Wednesday, April 25th at 9 p.m. and one on |
| 1:15.0 | on Thursday, April 25th at 9 PM Eastern, and one on Thursday, May 3rd at 1 PM Eastern. |
| 1:20.0 | You can register by going to EB Birth.com |
| 1:23.7 | slash Home Birth Webinar. |
| 1:26.6 | To prep everyone for that webinar, |
| 1:28.2 | I'm going to do a series of podcast |
| 1:29.8 | giving you some background information |
| 1:31.7 | about home birth so that when you get to the webinar all |
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