Birth Centre Care in the Netherlands: added value?!

Abstract

Outcomes on effect, costs and experiences are identical

for women with low-risk pregnancies who plan birth in a birth centre compared

with women who plan to give birth in a hospital. Women who planned home birth

had better outcomes on al aspects mentioned. Oppurtunities to easily optimize the outcomes for women who do not want to give birth at home, have been identified. Birth centres have the beste potential to easily implement these opportunities. After this implementantiona, and with the fact that more and more obstetric units in the Netherlands are dealing with capacitty problems, birth centres are an added value as birth location for women who don't plan to give birth at home.