Are hospital births still the safest option?

For women with medical complexities or childbirth risk factors, they will be recommended to birth at their local hospital, where access to secondary care resources is available. However, for women who have no particular risk factors and who have spontaneously established into natural active labour, then the safest place, statistically, for both the woman and her baby is actually a primary-care birthing centre. These are confirmed by studies are made under the UK’s globally respected National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and by local researches. You can read more on this in page 93-94 of the book.