Your kids? No.
What %age of kids born in this country do you think are born at home? Less than 0.1%?
In some states home birth is a guarantee of intense social services involvement. As in ‘we think you did this on purpose to hide something and that makes us very very interested’.
If my kid had been a home birth we’d both be dead. It was still a close thing and we were in the hospital at the time.
Your comment made me curious, so I took a look at the CDC website:
After a decline from 1990 to 2004, the percentage of U.S. births that occurred at home increased by 29%, from 0.56% of births in 2004 to 0.72% in 2009.For non-Hispanic white women, home births increased by 36%, from 0.80% in 2004 to 1.09% in 2009. About 1 in every 90 births for non-Hispanic white women is now a home birth. Home births are less common among women of other racial or ethnic groups.
Home births are more common among women aged 35 and over, and among women with several previous children.
Home births have a lower risk profile than hospital births, with fewer births to teenagers or unmarried women, and with fewer preterm, low birthweight, and multiple births.
The percentage of home births in 2009 varied from a low of 0.2% of births in Louisiana and the District of Columbia, to a high of 2.0% in Oregon and 2.6% in Montana.