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The study compared at-home births to low-risk hospital births and found:
* Five per cent of the women at home needed epidurals, compared to 63 per cent in hospital;
* Two per cent of women needed episiotomies, compared to 33 per cent in hospital; and
* Forceps were needed in one per cent of women, compared to two per cent in hospital.
"It is the most definitive study to date," said co-author Betty-Anne Daviss.
"The risk for home births is very similar to hospital birth, but you have one-tenth to one-half the intervention, so a lot of the caesareans being done, a lot of the forceps being done in hospital, are not really necessary."
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That's cuz all the high risk pregnancies are handled in a hospital.
Since only low risk is done at home so you would expect these kind of results.