Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Considering “Freebirth” During Covid-19 by Mari Greenfield, Sophie Payne-Gifford, Gemma McKenzie

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Freebirthing in the United Kingdom: The Voice Centered Relational Method and the (de)Construction of the I-Poem by Gemma McKenzie

“…Freebirth occurs when women intentionally give birth to their baby without midwives or doctors present in countries and eras in which there are maternity services available to assist them. …”
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Birthing outside the system: the motivation behind the choice to freebirth or have a homebirth with risk factors in Australia by Melanie K Jackson, Virginia Schmied, Hannah G Dahlen

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Challenges and lessons learned birthing during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A scoping review by Francoise Knox‐Kazimierczuk, Shannon Trinh, Dorian Odems, Meredith Shockley‐Smith

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Women’s motivations for choosing a high risk birth setting against medical advice in the Netherlands: a qualitative analysis by Martine Hollander, Esteriek de Miranda, Jeroen van Dillen, Irene de Graaf, Frank Vandenbussche, Lianne Holten

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“I got to catch my own baby”: a qualitative study of out of hospital birth by Mickey Sperlich, Cynthia Gabriel

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Concerns about transmission, changed services and place of birth in the early COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey among Danish pregnant women. The COVIDPregDK study by Katja Schrøder, Lonny Stokholm, Katrine Hass Rubin, Jan Stener Jørgensen, Ellen Aagaard Nohr, Lone Kjeld Petersen, Mette Bliddal

“…Reports suggested an increased number of pregnant women choosing to give birth at home, some even unassisted (‘freebirth’) due to concerns of transmission in hospital or reduction in birthplace options. …”
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Why do women choose an unregulated birth worker to birth at home in Australia: a qualitative study by Elizabeth Christine Rigg, Virginia Schmied, Kath Peters, Hannah Grace Dahlen

“…Recent changes to regulatory requirements for midwives have become more restrictive and there is no insurance product that covers private midwives for intrapartum care at home. Freebirth (planned birth at home with no registered health professional) with an unregulated birth worker who is not a registered midwife or doctor (e.g. …”
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Global stakeholder perspectives of home birth: a systematic scoping review by Ginny Brunton, Samira Wahab, Hassan Sheikh, Beth Murray Davis

“…Findings from 210 reports of studies in high-resource countries suggested that research with fathers and same-sex partners, midwives, and vulnerable populations and perspectives of freebirth and transfer to hospital could be synthesized. …”
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