Total planned home births:                                                                             1648

Total  transports:                                                                                    125    [7.6 % ]

                        Mothers transported in labor: 89

                              Cesareans                                                              49   [ 3% ]

                              Forceps/Vacuum                                                      9

                        Mothers transported within 24 hours postpartum:       23

                        Babies transported within 24 hours after home birth: 13

Counties:  Benzie 2     Kent  14   Lake 18    Manistee  51    Mason 207      Mecosta   128      Montcalm  15  Muskegon 336    Oceana 240    Ottawa   118    Newaygo  368    Osceola  78    plus 73 births attended in Allegan, Clare, Eaton, Grand Traverse, Gratiot, Ingham, Isabella, Kalamazoo, Midland, Missaukee, Shiawassee, Wayne & Wexford.

Oldest mom                 47,         Youngest mom     16

First baby or first vaginal birth:                                                          345   [ 21 % ]

Grandmultiparas   (more than 7 births):                                            159

Twins   (17 sets home born):                                                  22 sets, 21 sets vaginally born

Presentation of baby:

            Vertex    (head down)                                                                     1645

            Breech    (11 home born)                                                                    25

Mom’s position for vaginal birth:  

            Side-lying                                                                                          550

            Semi-sitting                                                                                       515

            Hands and knees                                                                             277

            Supine   (lying down)                                                                      128

            Upright   (standing, squatting or birth stool)                             149

Waterbirths:   [38% last 4 years]                                                              274

Lacerations with vaginal births:

            None or superficial only                                                         1127  [ 65 % ]

            1st degree                                                                                         388

            2nd degree   (into muscle)                                                               71

            3rd degree      (into rectal sphincter)                                               1

                   -stitched                                                                                     147

            Episiotomy and stitches   (8 transports; 1 HB)                               9

Rupture of membranes > 24 hours   (3  maternal infections):               98

Males:                                                                                                            880

Females:                                                                                                       790

Average baby’s weight  (range of 3 # 12 oz. to 12 # 5 oz.):                          8# 

Males circumsized:                                                                                 214   [ 24 % ]  

Births missed by Midwives:                                                                            72       

VBACS   (vaginal birth after previous csec): [ 87% successful ]    151   [19 repeat csecs ]

Screened out for home birth:                                                                 63