Opinion of these charts ...

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I'd attribute it to high costs with a stay in hospital and certain airy fairy holistic or religious ideals some people have. My sister wanted to have her first birth at home and had some complications - luckily it turned out alright. After that she's given birth in hospitals. This was in Ohio, by the way. I'll never forget the midwives sitting calmly in the living room afterwards and asking us if we'd like to see the placenta. She proceded to lightly wiggle it back and forth between her hands. Yes. Hard to forget that. Luckily they didn't decide to toss it into a blender and drink it to become "closer to the baby" (people actually do this).

Anyway, it's pretty negligible. We all look at the graphs and go "oh my!" at the trend line but when you look at the percentages, some 98% of births are in hospitals. It's fringe. A more interesting graph would be C-sections vs. natural births (sorry this only goes to 2007).