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Percent increase in home births in the U.S. from 2004 to 2008: the 28,357 home births in 2008 represented 0.67% of the approximately 4.2 million American births, the highest reported proportion since 1990. The change was driven largely by an increase in home births for white women, for whom more than 1% of all births now occur at home. [via CNN]
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