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I think this is all part of the 'natural' craze that some people latch on to. Anything 'natural' is good, anything 'unnatural' is bad. Very simple.
Here's the thing - 99% of the time (or thereabouts), you'll be fine if you give birth at home, as long as you have some idea what you're doing. Like they say, people have been doing it for a long time without hospitals. What with how clean modern houses are, and basic knowledge of hygiene, your chances of a good result are much higher than they have been historically.
However, the other 1% (less, really) of the time, something horrible is going to happen. Mother or baby is going to be in a life threatening situation. One or both will die without medical intervention. This is where having trained medical personnel and the resources of a hospital comes in handy.
So, like with vaccinations, where the disease they are preventing is so rare that most parents can 'get away' with not vaccinating their child, the vast majority of 'home births' will be fine. And the tragic situations when they aren't will be ignored. But the 'medical establishment' or whatever they are against *still* helps these people - modern medical knowledge guides these practices (starting with the germ theory of disease). A kind of shared immunity is granted by the fact that most people do vaccinate, and thus the diseases aren't common enough to be a problem for many of the un-vaccinated.
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