More people are choosing to give birth at home or in birth centers, with the sharpest increases among Black and Native American communities.
The Mary Ellen Pleasant birthing suite at the San Francisco Birth Center as seen on April 6, 2020 in San Francisco, California. Photo: Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images
More people are choosing to give birth at home or in birth centers, with the sharpest increases among Black and Native American communities, according to a new report released by the nonprofit advocacy organizationThe U.S.
Black, Indigenous, Hispanic and Asian and Pacific Islander women "disproportionately experience births with severe maternal morbidity relative to white, non-Hispanic women," according to the report. "In the long term, we must fundamentally re-imagine what a high-quality, equitable maternal care system looks like, and develop that system," the report states."There is strong evidence to support community birth as a high-value care model to advance birth equity," Aubre Tompkins, president of the American Association of Birth Centers, said in a statement.
"It is critical that barriers in policy and payment be removed to improve access in all communities and especially for birthing people and families of color."
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