CDC Study Says Home Births on the Rise in U.S.

After having her first child in a hospital, Lorra Jacobs decided it was an experience she did not care to repeat. She had two more children, and she chose to have both of them at home. "When I had my first child in the hospital, I was young and I didn't know of any alternatives. It wasn't a real positive experience," said Jacobs, who now works as the office manager at Mat-Su Midwifery in Wasilla, Alaska. "It was a stark, very impersonal feeling, treating me like I was sick and not pregnant."...Full Story