| Table 1: Comparisons of demographic data and pregnancy outcomes of pregnancies with home and hospital labor. |
| | | Home labor group
() | Hospital labor group
() | value |
| | Age (years) | 26 ± 5.4 | 25.4 ± 5.1 | NS | | Parity | 1.2 ± 1.0 | 0.7 ± 0.9 | 0.0001 | | Prenatal care (%) | 55.5 (132/238) | 74.4 (254/476) | 0.0001 | | Gestational age (weeks) | 38.7 ± 1.2 | 38.9 ± 1.0 | NS | | Fetal presentation (head) % | 96.2 (228/238) | 99.4 (473/476) | NS | | Meconium in amniotic fluid (%) | 2.9 (6/238) | 2.7 (12/476) | NS | | Episiotomy rate (%) | 50.4 (119/238) | 62.2 (296/476) | 0.001 | | Cesarean delivery rate (%) | 5 (11/238) | 17.1 (81/476) | 0.0001 | | Composite morbidity (%) | 4 (9/238) | 4 (19/476) | NS |
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Values are expressed as mean ± standard deviations. NS: not significant.
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