The safety of home birth is hotly debated, and now another major medical group has waded into the fray. The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday issued its first guidelines for the care of newborns in planned home births.
The policy says the academy agrees with the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' view that hospitals and birthing centers are the safest settings to have a baby, but the group also believes in women's right to make their own informed decisions. The aim of the new statement is to help establish guidelines for newborn care, not to comment on home birth in general, Dr. Kristi Watterberg, a professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico and the lead author, said.
"There are standards for caring for babies who are born anywhere," Watterberg told HuffPost. "This is to reiterate that the same standards should be met for" all of them.
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