Interest in homebirths continues to grow, according to HSE 

University Hospital Limerick recently confirmed that homebirth services remain suspended its region. Picture: Dan Linehan

Interest in homebirths continues to grow with 432 women registered in 2022, the highest number ever in Ireland though still a small proportion of all births nationally.

The service also tragically saw one maternal death that year, the audit by the National Perinatal Epidemiology Centre, shows.