According to the NPEU, 45% of planned home births end up in an obstetric unit.
Your best option is a midwife-led unit alongside an obstetric unit – known as an AMU birth, "alongside medical unit" – or an FMU birth, "freestanding midwifery unit".
The Horton obstetric unit lost its validation for training doctors as too few babies were being born there to qualify, so junior doctors won't apply.
"It will bring under the spotlight the satisfaction and quality of care that mothers feel they have received at that particular maternity unit, whether that's an obstetric unit in a hospital or a birthing centre where midwives are in charge.
Last year's birthplace study showed that women with low-risk pregnancies were more satisfied if they had a home birth or used a midwife-led unit than an obstetric unit", said Warwick.
Hospitals in other mainly rural parts of England have managed to find ways to keep a 24/7 consultant-led obstetric unit open, and so should local NHS bosses, he believes.
If your only consideration were clinical, it is safer for first-time mothers not to be on a labour ward (aka obstetric unit), due to cross-infection and thromboses (it makes no difference to the baby).
As a result of that case, Mr. Hernandez said, the hospital closed its obstetric unit because it could not afford the liability.
Methods: Fifty-three whoen who presented to a teaching hospital obstetric unit with secondary PPH were studied.
To understand the unstructured experiences of staff nurses in an obstetric unit with undergraduate nursing students present.
