For those that missed the release of the Australia’s mothers and babies report 2012 in December... [Page 65] Homebirths In 2012, there were 1,177 women who gave birth at home, representing 0.4% of all women who gave birth. Of mothers who gave birth at home, about 1 in 6 had their first baby (17.2%) and 62.2% were known to be multiparous..... The predominant method of birth for women who gave birth at home was non-instrumental vaginal (>99.5%) with vertex presentation (98.0%). Of babies born at home in 2012, 99.4% were liveborn. The mean birthweight of these liveborn babies was 3,586 grams... The proportion of liveborn babies of low birthweight born at home was 1.6%, and the proportion of pre-term babies born at home was 1.3%.
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