Research Article
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%) |
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