Which factor significantly contributed to the shift from home births to hospital births in the early twentieth century?

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The development of forceps to facilitate difficult births by physicians was a strong factor in the decrease of home births and increase of hospital births. With the shift toward hospital births, the numbers increased. The shift to hospital births decreased the amount of parental-infant contact. Puerperal sepsis has been a known problem for generations. In the late nineteenth century, Semmelweis discovered how it could be prevented.

Which Factor Significantly Contributed to the Shift from Home Births