BMJ BLOGS: Home-Birthing and Free-Birthing in the era of COVID-19

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For many pregnant people due to give birth soon there is considerable anxiety about how COVID-19 will impact birthing plans. Those who have planned for home-births are concerned that their plans will be jeopardised by the announcements from some NHS Trusts that they are suspending home-birthing services. Private home-birth services are now ‘receiving an unprecedented number of calls from women seeking reassurance, antenatal care, postnatal care and homebirths’1 as those previously not considering home-birth reassess their options because of concern about attending hospitals.

Period2 Apr 2020

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  • TitleHome-Birthing and Free-Birthing in the era of COVID-19
    Media name/outletBMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health Blog
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    Date2/04/20
    DescriptionFor many pregnant people[1] due to give birth soon there is considerable anxiety about how COVID-19 will impact birthing plans. Those who have planned for home-births are concerned that their plans will be jeopardised by the announcements from some NHS Trusts that they are suspending home-birthing services. Private home-birth services are now ‘receiving an unprecedented number of calls from women seeking reassurance, antenatal care, postnatal care and homebirths’1 as those previously not considering home-birth reassess their options because of concern about attending hospitals.
    URLhttps://blogs.bmj.com/bmjsrh/2020/04/02/home-birth-covid-19/
    PersonsElizabeth Romanis, Anna Nelson
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Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • coronavirus
  • birth