Recent Clinical Characteristics of Labors Using Three Japanese Systems of Midwife-Led Primary Delivery Care

Table 1

Clinical descriptions of pregnant women initially considered as “low-risk” for receiving our 3 midwife-led primary delivery care systems.

Birth place	Planned home birth	Planned hospital birth
Midwives	Independent midwives	Independent midwives	Midwives belonging to our hospital
Total number	123	88	467
Maternal age
Average (years)	33.1 4.9	33.2 4.3	34.0 ± 4.8
35 years	39 (32%)	37 (42%)	215 (46%)
Nulliparity	32 (26%)	21 (24%)	154 (33%)