Opinion of these charts ...

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Believe it or not, hospitals aren't always desirable.  Being able to give birth at home means the mother can be in a familiar environment at a stressful time, and you don't have the risk of picking up a hospital infection.  (You do have a higher risk of infection in the home setting, but it is far less likely to be a multi-drug resistant bug than you'd find in a hospital.)

Heck, my mother had her tonsils taken out as a kid at home and was none-the-worse for it.  Of course, that could never happen today.  When's the last time you heard of a doctor making a housecall?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Considering how some areas, like DC, have infant mortality rates the level of third world countries, the trend is unsurprising.

DC is fairly high for the US, but in 2010, the latest year I was able to find that sort of information for all states, Mississippi and Alabama had even higher rates and DC has managed to bring its rate down since 2010.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/INFANT_MORTALITY_RATES_STATE_2010.pdf

http://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-vincent-c-gray-and-dc-department-health-announce-continued-decrease-district%E2%80%99s-infant

It is odd that you'd pick DC to be your poster child for infant mortality.  While there are exceptions of course, infant mortality doesn't appear to be concentrated in urban (or rural) areas.  If one were to make a generalization from the data, it tends to be higher in red states like Alabama, Indiana, and Wyoming and lower in blue states like Vermont, New York, and California.  (Tho the state with the lowest rate is Alaska.)