“…Risk factors for planned or unplanned out-of-hospital births have been widely explored, highlighting contribution of factors including ethnic group, age, parity, prenatal care, education, labour duration, smoking or distance to maternity center [3, 11, 12, 20]. Perinatal morbidity and mortality in planned and unplanned out-of-hospital births was associated with several factors, including postpartum hemorrhage, puerperal complications, low birth weight, polycythemia, and hypothermia [9, 10, 12, 13, 19]. Unsurprisingly, as reported in our cohort, prematurity worsens perinatal prognosis [21].…”