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However, the trials show that women living in areas where they are not well
informed about home birth may welcome ethically well - designed trials that would ensure an informed choice.
Even then, I
read about home birth and out of hospital birth centers and thought to myself those people were crazy.
There are many questions that people want to
know about home birth as it actually plays out rather than the mere philosophy of the setting of birth.
This study is critically important at a time when many deeply - flawed and misleading
studies about home birth have been receiving media attention.
I have moved on to other endeavors now, but always think of those wonderful midwives and their help to me when I
hear about home births.
One of the best
bits about a home birth is the level of care you get afterwards from the midwife - it's much better than anything you'll get in hospital.
It will probably be many years yet before I have children, but I've thought very
seriously about home birth and drug free birth for a number of years now.
An important thing to
remember about home birth is that if something goes wrong, you don't have the amenities and technology of a hospital.
Given that I loved my home birth so much, and that I know there is plenty of inaccurate information out
there about home births, I wanted to help set the record straight.
However, the trials showed that women living in areas where they are not well -
informed about home birth may welcome ethically well - designed trials that would ensure an informed choice.
The empowering things my non-mom friends
said about my home birth more than made up for some of the other comments I heard from time to time.
-LSB-...]
debates about home birth you probably read some of the news stories that said that having a home birth is like driving in a car without a seatbelt.
While some folks who birth at home do so assisted by professionals, they usually call their births «unassisted» or «independent,» so when I talk
about home births in this piece, I'm talking about the kinds attended by trained midwives.