WebMDの2010年7月2日付の報道などによる、計画された家庭での出産の新生児死亡率は、計画された病院での出産の場合の2倍(先天異常がない場合は3倍)であることがわかった。Research conducted by Joseph R. Wax, MD, and colleagues, from the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Maine Medical Center in Portland, shows that the overall newborn death rate was almost twice as high in planned home vs. planned hospital births, and was almost tripled among those newborns in planned hom