Research Article
Unattended Home Labor until Complete Cervical Dilatation Ending with Hospital Delivery: Analysis of 238 Pregnancies
Table 3
Details of outcomes of the infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit in the study and control groups.
| | Home labor () | Hospital labor () |
| Respiratory morbidity (%) | 44.4 (8/18) | 58.8 (10/17) | Meconium aspiration syndrome (%) | 16.6 (3/18) | 5.8 (1/17) | Major congenital abnormality (%) | 5.5 (1/18) | 0 (0/17) | Anemia (%) | 0 (0/18) | 5.8 (1/17) | Polycythemia (%) | 16.6 (3/18) | 0 (0/17) | Hyperbilirubinemia (%) | 11.1 (2/18) | 29.4 (5/17) | Caput succedaneum (%) | 5.5 (1/18) | 0 (0/17) | Neonatal mortality (%) | 0 (0/18) | 5.8 (1/17) |
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