1.   I Decided I wanted a home birth for my second child.

2.   More and more women are choosing to have home births.

3.   There is a significant difference between the number of home births now and ten years ago.

4.   SINCE our feature on the subject we have had several enquiries about how to go about arranging a home birth.

5.   We have also had a call from a Darlington doctor keen that we promote the use of GPs in home births.

6.   Advocates for lay midwives argued that state officials were in effect seeking to ban home births by restricting midwifery to nurses.

7.   Even though most puppy births are home births, the vet is usually in contact by phone and then should examine the pups at one day old.

8.   He had been doing research on home births when he came across articles on the Internet and in magazines about the potential dangers associated with childhood immunizations.

9.   I was able to capture the feelings of awe and wonderment and a bit of nausea at our home births.

10.   Most controversial is the rule that midwives would be forbidden from attending most home births in which the mother has had a previous Caesarean.