Obstetric practices in planned home births assisted in Brazil.

Objective: To describe obstetric practices in planned home births, assisted by qualified professionals in Brazil.

Method: This is a descriptive study, with data collected in an online bank maintained by 49 professionals from December 2014 to November 2015, in which the target population was women and newborns assisted in home births. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics.

[Planned home births assisted by nurse midwives: maternal and neonatal transfers].

The objective of this explorative and descriptive study was to describe the rates and reasons for intrapartum transfers from home to hospital among women assisted by nurse midwives, and the outcomes of those deliveries. The sample consisted of eleven women giving birth and their newborns, from January 2005 to December 2009. Data was collected from the maternal and neonatal records and was analyzed using descriptive statistics.

[Outcomes of planned home birth assisted by nurses, from 2005 to 2009, in Florianópolis, Brazil].

A cross-sectional study was performed to analyze obstetric and neonatal results of planned home births assisted by obstetric nurses in the city of Florianópolis, Southern Brazil. Data collected from the medical records of 100 parturient women cared for between 2005 and 2009 indicated 11 hospital transfers, nine of which underwent a Cesarean section. The majority of women who had a home birth showed normal fetal heart beat (94.

[The philosophy assistance of a public maternity in the southern part of the country under the optics of its professional team].

This is the descriptive exploratory study that aimed at evaluating the implementation of the philosophical assistance of a maternity teaching hospital, under the optics of the professionals. 113 health professionals that works in the second semester of 2007 participated in the study. Data were collected through means of questionnaire which were analyzed by descriptive statistic, the total response, 51.