But this kind of headline always makes me laugh. Women deliver their own babies (unless you're talking about a Caesarian section).
About 90% of the time, a mother delivering a baby without professional help will ultimately do just fine. Having a doctor yank a baby out of an over-anesthetized mother, using forceps, is often much worse for mother and baby than an unplanned home birth.
Yes of course it's better to have an experienced midwife than to deliver alone. But hospital births have their own unexpected risks.
Amen to that-my natural living country family preached Lamaze classes and natural birth as the safest way-worked fine for me...