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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2011-11-25 11:00 am

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[identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com 2011-11-28 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Because complications are rare, pulling complications out of the home birth pool is like pulling tokens out of a bag with a lot of tokens. So removing the mothers who had complications the first time shouldn't affect the home birth statistics positively enough to detect. Which is just what we observe: home births rise to the safety level of hospital births on and after second birth, but do not exceed it, despite the theoretical skew from first-birth complications electing hospital the second time around.