Home Birth Boom to Avoid Hospital Misery

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MORE women are choosing to give birth at home to avoid miserable NHS hospitals and the risk of infection.

Home births accounted for 2.7 per cent of all deliveries in England and Wales in 2006, the latest year for which figures are available.

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Home Birth Boom to Avoid Hospital Misery

It means 18,100 women gave birth at home that year, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Numbers of home births have been gradually...

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