Sentences with phrase «safer than hospital birth»

In fact, British regulators are urging women to consider home birth because home birth can be safer than a hospital birth for many women.

I had researched this option carefully and knew that in low - risk pregnancies homebirth was often times safer than hospital birth with much less risk of interventions.

«Despite the fact that a Fall 2012 Cochrane Library Review... reports that home birth is as safe or in many cases actually safer than hospital birth»

Despite the fact that a Fall 2012 Cochrane Library Review (considered the gold standard of independent inquiry and scientific objectivity) reports that home birth is as safe or in many cases actually safer than hospital birth, the American obstetrical community continues to publicly oppose homebirth, citing safety concerns as their main argument.

✓ Because home birth is at least as safe or most likely safer than hospital birth.

For a time, before we knew that doctors were spreading germs from patient to patient in the hospital, home birth was actually FAR SAFER than hospital birth (at the end of the 1800's and early 1900's).

So yes, I would say that in some cases homebirth is slightly safer than hospital birth.

The study clearly states that you can not draw conclusions from it, yet you seem to be drawing a conclusion from it that home birth is as safe or safer than hospital birth.

Here is what you wrote — «Despite the fact that a Fall 2012 Cochrane Library Review (considered the gold standard of independent inquiry and scientific objectivity) reports that home birth is as safe or in many cases actually safer than hospital birth, the American obstetrical community continues to publicly oppose homebirth, citing safety concerns as their main argument.»

As Jennifer Block mentions in her response to the Daily Beast, we know from more than half a dozen large - scale studies carried out in several different countries, including England and the Netherlands (where almost a third of babies are born at home), that planned home birth with competent attendants is as safe as or safer than hospital birth.

In fact some studies have shown home birth to actually be safer than hospital birth.

You might consider asking her how she manages to sleep at night, knowing how many babies have been sacrificed to the lie that homebirth is safer than hospital birth.

And when I would remonstrate with the transporting midwife, she would assure me that homebirth was safer than hospital birth and that the data showed it.

I don't believe that Dr. Amy is saying all of the studies listed should be dismissed out of hand, but more that they are mostly not of high quality and / or do not support your claim that HB is as safe or safer than hospital birth.

Women are choosing Homebirth because they are told it is safe or safer than hospital birth.

Most people don't realize that the consensus from the research shows that homebirth is as safe as or safer than hospital birth for low - risk women with a skilled birth attendant.

Depending on the situation, it can be much safer than hospital birth.

Because Amy Tuteur, MD didn't describe the core beliefs of the cult I can't tell whether she means that the beliefs are unfalsifiable (undetectable goodness of vaginal birth) or whether she means that the cult members are resistant to evidence (home birth is as safe as or even safer than hospital birth) which is NOT what unfalsifiable means.

She did not intimate that homebirth was safer than hospital birth.

Go to MDC and see the ridiculous «arguments» these women resort to just to keep pretending that homebirth is safe or safer than hospital birth.

Oh, wait, maybe they do, and MANA is planning to release them now to say «hey, it isn't really 8x the rate, like the Oregon stats show, they are an awful anomaly, it is * only * 3x, and three is almost the same as one, so, ipso facto, as safe or safer than hospital birth.»

I attempted a home birth in 2010 in Oregon, under the belief that it was «as safe or safer than hospital birth».

I wonder why he didn't just say» Homebirth attended by a CPM is safe or safer than hospital birth if you don't count the fact that 3 times as many babies die»?

They start with a unshakeable belief that homebirth is as safe or safer than hospital birth, and that lay midwives with only a highschool education are adequately trained.

Huh, you seem to be claiming above that homebirth is safer than hospital birth... therefore there must be stats comparing the two that exist for you to make these claims.

By the way, a great book by another skeptical OBGYN is called «Born in the USA» only he's skeptical of medicalized birth because he's a clinical scientist as well, unlike our author here and he's realized that home birth is safer than hospital birth according to peer - reviewed large scale studies.

Homebirth is safe or safer than hospital birth because when you exlude women who midwives shouldn't have taken at all and those who doctors and real miwives couldn't save after homebirth clowns botched deliveries — well, it totally works!

But it wasn't safer than a hospital birth, at least not if the definition of safety is was your baby more at risk of dying because she was born at home.

They used to say that Homebirth is as safe or safer than Hospital birth.

Yeah, it's like the obvious contradiction between «homebirth is completely safe, even safer than hospital birth!

Several studies have shown that planned homebirth attended by a qualified experienced caregiver is as safe or safer than hospital birth for low - risk women.

I have to first admit that I've been a little reticent to post about this, not because I'm not excited about it, but because homebirth in our culture is not seen as a safe or wise choice (though in reality it is as safe or safer than hospital births in most cases — there are a number of studies that indicate as such).

Yet another study, this one consisting of every birth in The Netherlands over two years, demonstrates that home births are safer than hospital births.

However, studies show that even in those countries, it's less safe than hospital birth, and it's important that mothers understand that.

All of this, along with improvements in technology, has contributed to making home births just as safe, if not safer than hospital births.

«The reason studies consistently show midwifery to be as safe or safer than hospital births is because it's about preventive care and good nutrition during pregnancy,» Cornia said.

The research (more than a dozen studies) that I have found concludes that HB is just as safe, if not safer than hospital births.

«The research (i.e., well - known, respected studies and not the ones like the BMJ one cited above) that I have found concludes that HB is just as safe, if not safer than hospital births»

How did we come to believe this, that home birth is less safe than hospital birth?

Homebirth is still less safe than hospital birth, it is just that the gap would be less if protocols were stricter.

Not exact matches

I have always believed in my gut that it is safer to have a CNM attend a homebirth in a low risk pregnancy than give birth in a hospital.

You wrote, «Every study I found said homebirth is safer for low risk woman than hospital birth.

The Canadian study has an unusual way of calculating perinatal mortality, and the Dutch study points out that homebirth is as safe as hospital birth in the Netherlands without addressing the fact that the homebirth population is much lower risk than the hospital population.

This new set of NICE guidelines concluded that healthy women with straightforward pregnancies are safer to give birth at home, or in a midwife - led birth centre, than at a hospital with the care of an obstetrician.

Studies there (sorry, don't have any references on hand, I'll try to get them posted later) show that home - birthing in this setting is just as safe for mother and child for a first birth, and safer for next births, than a hospital setting.

Isn't childbirth safer than it ever has been, with most women going to hospital and giving birth under the supervision of well - trained medical health professionals?

In my area, we have a large plain population that will birth at home regardless, so it's safer to have regulated CNMs with hospital privileges doing it than the underground midwives some would otherwise turn to.

My personal opinion is that a lot of homebirthing moms are convinced that homebirth is «as safe or safer» than hospital birth, and they expect the hospital staff to affirm that belief.

But saying home birth is safer than giving birth in a hospital is just ignorant.

Your article continues to feed the unfounded fear that hospital births are somehow safer than homebirths.