How to Start a Home Birth Business

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Tip 1 - How to Start a Home Birth Business

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Aharoni Zisling | permalink

If you're a midwife or proponent of home births, you may have considered opening a business for home births. While the safety of home births is hotly contested, studies have shown that a home birth ...

For further reading: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/start-home-birth-business-16266.html ^[1]

Tip 2 - Home Birth: Increasingly Popular, But Dangerous

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Paris Chevalier | permalink

A small but growing number of mothers are skipping hospitals to have their babies at home. Michelle Goldberg reports on what’s fueling the trend—and the hidden dangers at hand.
Tags: Health, U.S. News,

For further reading: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/25/home-birth-increasingly-popular-but-dangerous.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - Why Home Birth May Not Be For You

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Hanan Refaii | permalink

I live with my partner and our toddler son in a Brooklyn neighborhood called Park Slope which is famous—some might say infamous—for being family-friendly almost to the point of tyranny. Just look at the bossy parental behavior featured in the popular...

For further reading: http://mamiverse.com/why-home-birth-may-not-be-for-you-11367/ ^[3]

Tip 4 - Home Birth Matters—For All Women

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Dalbert Shelby | permalink

Although it remains rare in the United States, planned home birth has drawn increasing attention and criticism in the mainstream media and has come under attack from organized medicine. Yet, recent peer-reviewed studies contribute to the evidence base ...

For further reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820352/ ^[4]