Table 3.

Details of  outcomes of  the infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit in the study and control groups.

	Home labor  (n = 18)	Hospital labor  (n = 17)
Respiratory morbidity (%)	44.4 (8/18)	58.8 (10/17)
Meconium aspiration syndrome (%)	16.6 (3/18)	5.8 (1/17)
Major congenital abnormality (%)	5.5 (1/18)	0 (0/17)
Anemia (%)	0 (0/18)	5.8 (1/17)
Polycythemia (%)	16.6 (3/18)	0 (0/17)
Hyperbilirubinemia (%)	11.1 (2/18)	29.4 (5/17)
Caput succedaneum (%)	5.5 (1/18)	0 (0/17)
Neonatal mortality (%)	0 (0/18)	5.8 (1/17)

For all comparisons, P > 0.05.