Table 1 Characteristics of women who planned home birth and women who planned hospital birth (N = 3495)
| Â | Planned place of birth | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nulliparous women (N = 1585) | Parous women (N = 1910) | |||||
Home birth (N = 868) N(%) | Hospital birth (N = 717) N(%) | P-value | Home birth (N = 1182) N(%) | Hospital birth (N = 728) N(%) | P-value | |
Maternal age, years | ||||||
  < 25 | 145 (16.7) | 131 (18.3) | 0.002* | 48 (4.1) | 36 (4.9) | 0.148 |
 25–35 | 651 (75.0) | 490 (68.3) |  | 870 (73.6) | 506 (69.5) |  |
  ≥ 35 | 72 (8.3) | 96 (13.4) |  | 264 (22.3) | 186 (25.5) |  |
Gestational age at birth, weeks | ||||||
 37 + 0–37 + 6 | 35 (4.0) | 33 (4.6) | 0.201 | 27 (2.3) | 14 (1.9) | 0.856 |
 38 + 0–40 + 6 | 641(73.8) | 551 (76.8) |  | 934 (79.0) | 575 (79.0) |  |
 41 + 0–41 + 6 | 192 (22.1) | 133 (18.5) |  | 221 (18.7) | 139 (19.1) | |
Ethnic background | ||||||
 Dutch background | 785 (90.4) | 540 (75.3) | <0.001* | 1030 (87.1) | 532 (73.1) | <0.001* |
 Non-Dutch Western background | 37 (4.3) | 82 (11.4) |  | 82 (6.9) | 69 (9.5) |  |
 Non-Western background | 43 (5.0) | 92 (12.8) |  | 65 (5.5) | 125 (17.2) |  |
 Missing | 3 (0.3) | 3 (0.4) |  | 5 (0.4) | 2 (0.3) |  |
Prepregnancy BMI | ||||||
  < 25.0 | 654 (75.3) | 511 (71.3) | 0.146 | 842 (71.2) | 481 (66.1) | 0.051 |
  ≥ 25.0 | 182 (21.0) | 170 (23.7) |  | 292 (24.7) | 216 (29.7) |  |
 Missing | 32 (3.7) | 36 (5.0) |  | 48 (4.1) | 31 (4.3) |  |
Socioeconomic position | ||||||
 High | 187 (21.5) | 180 (25.1) | 0.181 | 321 (27.2) | 205 (28.2) | 0.137 |
 Middle | 389 (44.8) | 319 (44.5) |  | 581 (49.2) | 325 (44.6) |  |
 Low | 288 (33.2) | 215 (30.0) |  | 277 (23.4) | 194 (26.6) |  |
 Missing | 4 (0.5) | 3 (0.4) |  | 3 (0.3) | 4 (0.5) |  |
Birth weight | ||||||
  < 2500 | 8 (0.9) | 9 (1.3) | 0.553 | 3 (0.3) | 0 | 0.053 |
 2500–2999 | 88 (10.1) | 79 (11.0) |  | 49 (4.1) | 51 (7.0) |  |
 3000–3499 | 351 (40.4) | 312 (43.5) |  | 373 (31.6) | 220 (30.2) |  |
 3500–3999 | 311 (35.8) | 238 (33.2) |  | 471 (39.8) | 287 (39.4) |  |
  ≥ 4000 | 104 (12.0) | 76 (10.6) |  | 286 (24.2) | 169 (23.2) |  |
 Missing | 6 (0.7) | 3 (0.4) |  | 0 | 1 (0.1) |  |
Instrumental vaginal birth in obstetric history | ||||||
 Yes |  |  |  | 98 (8.3) | 116 (15.9) | <0,001* |