The phrase
"hospital birth" refers to the event of having a baby in a hospital, where doctors and medical professionals are present to provide care and assistance during labor and delivery.
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We compared the outcomes of planned home births attended by midwives with those of
planned hospital births attended by midwives or physicians.
It is possible to have an out
of hospital birth in which everything is completely fine.
I was thrilled with them regardless, though, and moved forward with a plan for
hospital birth in their care.
The author does support homebirth as an option equally as safe
as hospital birth for healthy women.
If it's low
risk hospital birth then I am guessing they wouldn't because wouldn't that make someone high risk?
Comparison of home births with
hospital births attended by a midwife showed very similar and equally significant differences.
Yes, the midwives have to follow hospital protocol, but you probably have a better chance at your
natural hospital birth in one of these birth centers than in a hospital maternity ward.
Even then, I read about home birth and out of
hospital birth centers and thought to myself those people were crazy.
After all of the unwanted interventions during my first
hospital birth experience, I knew I wanted a different birth experience this time and a more supportive provider.
There are SO many ways to define «natural birth» these days,
from hospital births with a myriad of pain relieving options to home deliveries in a relaxing pool of water.
I disagree with your view
on hospital birth classes not being «natural birth friendly», I found it to be the opposite.
This theory could be correct if
hospital birth didn't come with it's own set of serious risks.
The more I learned about
hospital births when compared to home births or birth center deliveries, the more convinced I was that I had made the right decision for me.
In
hospital births where cervical checks are the norm, a woman is usually only able to labor naturally for 24 hrs after her waters break.
The death rate for planned homebirth with a direct - entry midwife in 2012 was more than 800 % higher than
term hospital birth.
I'm a pediatrician and have attended
many hospital births where unnecessary interventions were done.
This is important because many
hospital birth classes are geared more toward how to be a good patient as opposed to really understanding your birth options.
So the question isn't «is home birth safe», rather «why is
hospital birth so risky» for low risk women?
Even if you are planning to have a
standard hospital birth, having a little knowledge and a few skills can prevent needless interventions.
I had to previously
traumatic hospital births and I never thought i would experience a beautiful homebirth like some of my friends as my family was complete.
A must - read for almost every pregnant woman, Your Best Birth presents all the options from homebirth
through hospital birth and helps you negotiate these complicated decisions.
While that's ideal, in
most hospital birth situations, doctors aren't going to wait until your body begins bearing down on its own.
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