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Home birth may start babies off with health-promoting microbes

  • Written by Joan Combellick, Assistant Clinical Professor of Midwifery, Yale University
What are the differences between planned assisted childbirth with midwife at home versus delivery with obstetrician at a hospital?M-SUR/Shutterstock.com

For all of human history, babies have been born where their mothers lived – whether in a house, hut or cave. Only in the last century has birth moved out of the home and into the hospital....

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