Here’s the bottom line. They crunched numbers from seven studies:
Neonatal mortality rate:
Planned home births Planned hospital births
32/16,500 (0.20) 32/33,302 (0.09) All
23/15,633 (0.15) 14/31,999 (0.04) Nonanomalous
Statistically, .15 (one and one half percent) is three+ times higher than .04 (four tenths of a percent).
“Conclusion: Less medical intervention during planned home birth is associated with a tripling of the neonatal mortality rate.”
So maybe they are saying that that more medical intervention during planned homebirth is better?
Their conclusion is vague and unclear but serves the purposes of the trade organization’s publication.
They have also distorted studies on VBAC in the past. I’m not convinced.