Most of us were born in hospitals, but hundreds of Kentucky mothers each year give birth somewhere else.

As Kentucky auditions, June Lefler reports, some state lawmakers say parents need more options on where to deliver their newborn.

On the day a baby is born.

Not every parent wants to be in the hospital.

My my wife has had natural births for all four of our kids and is more comfortable laboring and giving birth in a more home like environment.

Most planned home births go smoothly, but an obstetrician says she provides emergency care for the worst home birth scenarios.

Women saying, I had no idea that could happen.

I had no idea I could hemorrhage.

I had no idea I could get sepsis and end up in liver failure.

That's why some parents want a delivery option outside their home, but not in the hospital.

That could be a freestanding birthing center, something most states have, but not Kentucky.

House Bill 199 would exempt birthing centers from having to get a certificate of need, which states that the care a medical provider wants to offer is actually needed in the community it serves.

That's a major barrier for anyone hoping to open one of these centers.

Some Christian and advocacy groups support this change.

Kentucky hospitals do not.

The current House Bill 199, did offer some of the changes we had recommended with the transfer agreements and the distance from the hospital.

But what it did not do is it did not add in the very important presence of an obstetrician or a physician to help oversee and work collaboratively with the midwives that are delivering at the freestanding birth centers.

But this isn't just about safety.

It's about the health care market bill.

Proponents suggest hospitals will stand in the way of birthing centers that could take away their patients.

What we know is that states who write in supervisory language don't have safer outcomes.

They just have fewer birth centers.

Because the same people who oppose the bill then turn around and have control over who can open a birth center.

It is very difficult as an out of hospital provider to find supervision from people who are going to be your competitors.

The House Committee on Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations advance the bill for Kentucky edition on June Leffler.

Thank you, June.

Almost half of all Kentucky counties are considered maternity care deserts, according to the March of Dimes.

That means these counties have no obstetricians or nurse midwives.