Here we have to distinguish between a patient with or without a medical indication. With a delivery with a medical indication, giving birth in hospital is absolutely safer. Often both mother and baby need to be monitored more intensively than we can do in a home situation. With an patient without medical indication delivery, it is not medically necessary to give birth in hospital, this is your own voluntary choice. The delivery is in fact the same as a home delivery but at a different location. With both deliveries, the midwife has the same instruments at her disposal to monitor you and the baby and to guide your delivery. In short, giving birth at home or in hospital is equally safe.