I had a wonderful homebirth with my first and am planning another with my second in a few months and love seeing
information about homebirth provided on a «mainstream» site like this.
What bothers me so
much about the homebirth debate is that we have ample scientific evidence to show that homebirth is safe for low risk women.
One of the really outrageous
things about the homebirth movement is its contempt for medical care, until even they can see it is an emergency, when suddenly all those untrustworthy professionals must jump to it, drop everything else, and rescue the situation.
Captain, I'd laugh, but I was involved in a
discussion about homebirth safety where a midwife said that a maternal death in NZ couldn't have been related to birth because it happened two weeks later.
I honestly think the more you research and
learn about homebirths, the less need for fear there is (at least that's been my experience).
Not because of her support of hospitals (I like them for sick people), not b / c she's bashing homebirthers as egoists, but b / c she hasn't read any
facts about homebirth before she put her opinion out there.
There do seem to be lots of misconceptions / misunderstandings about the Dutch system in conversations like these though, and not
just about the homebirth side but planned hospital births as well.
The Coroner correctly identified that Joseph's mother naively and erroneously thought that she was
educated about homebirth because she had done «research» on the internet:
More recently our practice sponsored a booth at a local baby fair where we
shared about homebirth, birthing options, functional midwifery and breastfeeding.
Curiously she never mentions that Wisconsin collects
statistics about homebirths and year after year those statistics show that homebirth triples the rate of neonatal death.
Yet time and time again I have read and
written about homebirth loss mothers praising deadly midwives, praising the «experience» of a vaginal birth of a dead child, refusing to cooperate in disciplining the midwife responsible, advocating for more «freedom» for homebirth midwives, and, most grotesque of all, choosing to risk their next child's life by having a homebirth.
Homebirth advocates did not whine and complain when Wax published his last paper about homebirth
What I'm saying is that its just a film!!!! And its not
about homebirth!!!! or even about natural birth really.
I wish that women were given honest, real information
about homebirth vs. hospital birth and were able to make informed decisions vs. being lured into the rosy homebirth scanario or scared to death of hospital birth.