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Home birthing offering a more personal intervention for births

For some mothers the idea of being at home in familiar surrounds provides that soon to be new mom with great comfort and reassurance.

Since 2004, giving birth at home is on the climb according to the CDC. Instead of the traditional hospital environment the rate of home births has increased by 29% between 2004 and 2009 equaling almost thirty thousand births occurring at home revealed in the new report.

According to Marian MacDorman, lead author and statistician for CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, it is not clear why the rate of home births is increasing but she believes it has to do with personal preference. Noting that a lot of women really like the idea of home birth because it offers a lower intervention birth. They also have concerns over higher C-section rates and other kinds of interventions which occur in the hospital.