Planned Home Birth: The Professional Responsibility Response Frank A. Chervenak, MD The World Symposium of Perinatal Medicine November 22, 2014 San Diego, CA Acknowledgements • Laurence B. McCullough, PhD • Amos Grünebaum, MD • Robert L. Brent, MD, PhD • Malcolm I. Levene, MD • Birgit Arabin, MD Disclosures • I have no relevant financial relationships to disclose or conflicts of interest to resolve. • FDA – Nothing to disclose Planned Home Birth • Recrudescence and new support • Clinical realities • Professional responsibility model • How obstetricians should respond US Home Births 1998-2012 Movie: “The Business of Being Born” Homebirths By Midwives: CDC Natality Data Resurgence of Homebirth in the US Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Cindy Crawford on Homebirth “I delivered my baby. It was so empowering for me. … I was in my own environment. You're not hearing another person down the hall screaming or ambulances or people rushing about around you. You chose who to have with you.” http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/847083/celebrity-moms-cindy-crawford
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