The ACOG is trying to show that now that more women are having homebirths that it is becoming dangerous. They are looking to find births that have lead to bad outcomes, let's show them how many great outcomes there are.

Here is the survey: Complications Related to Home Delivery

Here are the instructions:

Below is information about how to fill out the categories-you have to check each one except for the very last or the form won't go through. Please base the information on your most recent home birth (although you will be limited to checking June, July or August of 2009 for the birth date because of how the database is set up).

State

Choose a month (June, July or August) for your baby's birth and 2009 for the year... Read More... Read More

Gravida (# of times you've been pregnant)

Para (# babies you've had who were born after 20 weeks)

Maternal Age

Gestational Age (number of weeks pregnant you were when your baby was born)

Problem - Please check OTHER and type in: Healthy baby born at HOME!

Fetal Outcome: Please check: Successful delivery!

Pre-Arrival length of labor - give the overall length of your labor (you can't leave it blank or it kicks you back)

Home Attendant - Please check: CPM even if you had a DEM or LM (the only other choice is "untrained").

The final question to prevent accidental duplications is optional.

Thanks for taking a few moments to do this action. It's quick, easy and best of all - messes with their plans!

(from an instructional email I received with news of this database) ***Got this from Adrienne the amazing MW apprentice at Hudson's birth in SC.

so many people flooded it with good homebirths it is now password protected.