MedPage Today November 17, 2022
— Births at home have reached highest levels since at least 1990, CDC researchers say
Home births jumped 12% from 2020 to 2021, continuing an upward trend observed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and reaching their highest level since at least 1990, according to the CDC.
Home births increased from an absolute 1.26% of total births in 2020 to 1.41% in 2021, representing an increase of 6,000 births, reported Elizabeth Gregory, MPH, of the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues in the National Vital Statistics Report.
Last year’s increase in home births follows a 22% increase from 2019 to 2020, signaling that the pandemic was a potential cause for the climbing rate, the researchers...
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