Nordic Home Birth study | The Icelandic Health Science Institute

The Nordic Home Birth Study is a collaboration on home birth research in four Nordic countries: Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The goal of the research collaboration is to gain deeper knowledge of the health of mothers and their babies after a planned home birth. Research questions include:

Is there a difference in birth outcomes in home and hospital births in Nordic countries?
What is the transfer rate from home to hospital in planned home births?
What are the birth experiences of mothers and fathers having home births in Nordic countries?

Our principal investigator: Berglind Hálfdánsdóttir, Associate professor and Senior Lecturer of Midwifery