Sentences with phrase «as safe a birth»

Families wanted: • To have as safe a birth as possible • To face the unknown of the coming birth with confidence • To stay on top of and in control of their birth experience even in the most challenging situations • To look back on their baby's birth with pride and empowerment

The World Health Organization, the American Public Health Association and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (in the UK) all support home birth as a safe birth choice, yet some states in the US make this option difficult or impossible for women, despite evidence of its safety.

Not exact matches

She also discussed some of the women's health and family policies that she would prioritize in the White House, such as paid family leave and access to birth control and safe abortion.

Selma March Got Me Born — NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 — Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.

So on Sunday, November 18, 2012, Sean gave me a gift greater than I can ever explain: an opportunity to stand up in church and reclaim the place I knew since birth as my home, a place where I felt safe and truly loved again.

In non-western worlds, in 3rd world countries women are still used as slaves, their property of men, women do not have access to contraception, to give birth to children in safe places, they are ganged raped and have no right sometimes even to divorce abusive spouses.

We assist birth; we try to make it as safe and painless and joyful as possible.

Summer Minor, who blogs at Wired for Noise and gave birth to her daughter at home a little over a week ago, references the recent Nederlands study that says home birth is as safe as hospital birth.

The largest study of its kind has found that for low - risk women, giving birth at home is as safe as doing so in hospital with a midwife.

How can the AMA decide that homebirth is not as safe as a hospital birth for millions of women, when they don't even know these women's medical histories?

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).

Regardless of the outcome of this case, I will continue to speak out about unassisted childbirth as I believe that in most cases it's the safest and most satisfying way to give birth.

Yet in the majority of cases a midwife - attended birth in a birthing center or at home is just as safe.

So really, the safest place to birth is at home, when you consider morbidity as well as mortality.

And I never asserted unassisted birth is just as safe as midwife - assisted birth.

Also, to make the assertion that an unassisted birth is just as safe as using a trained, licensed midwife without any data can be construed as equally misleading.

To me, that means do everything humanly possible to make the birth as safe as possible.

A community resource and support group designed as a 6 week session to create a safe space for that delicate time after pregnancy and birth.

Most people assume they that homebirth can not possibly be as safe as hospital birth or they naively think that appropriate preparation for managing unexpected outcomes is unnecessary.

Home Birth Home Birth is rapidly gaining popularity as parents learn that it is a safe and reasonable option for low risk pregnancies with trained midwives.

Safety Concerns, Pain Management and Supplies To keep your birth experience as safe as possible, «I highly recommend reading books about physiological birth and preparing your space and practicing any relaxation techniques,» suggests Moser.

Feeling safer with a gun, doesn't make you safer, just as birthing in a hospital doesn't necessarily make for a safer birth.

As to whether home births are «safe» for people who don't have the royal obstetrician on call, the UK's National Child Trust states that for women having a second or subsequent baby, home birth is «as safe as» delivering in a hospital, and also offers «other benefits for the mother.&raquAs to whether home births are «safe» for people who don't have the royal obstetrician on call, the UK's National Child Trust states that for women having a second or subsequent baby, home birth is «as safe as» delivering in a hospital, and also offers «other benefits for the mother.&raquas safe as» delivering in a hospital, and also offers «other benefits for the mother.&raquas» delivering in a hospital, and also offers «other benefits for the mother.»

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.

As for the birth photography, Esther's presence made me feel completely safe and unashamed in the midst of the vulnerability (i.e. nakedness) of birth and the afterbirth.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) shared just today what I think is their first policy statement specific to homebirth, and as one would anticipate, they concur «with the recent statement of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists affirming that hospitals and birthing centers are the safest settings for birth in the United States while respecting the right of women to make a medically informed decision about delivery» (2013, 1016, abstract).

Homebirth is as safe as birth in a hospital, recent studies pointed that out.

This indicates that as a whole, PLANNED home births are as safe as ones in medical settings.

If it is really as safe as they insist, and if ANY intervention is more likely to cause problems than help, then logically the «safest» birth is an unassisted one.

Homebirth and midwifery advocates point with pride to a recent study that showed that homebirth with a midwife in the Netherlands is as safe as hospital birth with a midwife (Perinatal mortality and morbidity in a nationwide cohort of 529 688 low - risk planned home and hospital births).

In no way shape or form did they act like «birth was as safe as a stroll through the vineyard on a sunny day.»

But if you read each and every citation, as I have done, you will find that only 3 of the 66 «citations» support the claim that homebirth is as safe as hospital birth.

Out of 66 separate citations in Vedam's Guide, only 3 show that homebirth is as safe as hospital birth, 2 from Canada and 1 from the Netherlands.

The motto they use to try to sum up this poor logic is «Birth is as safe as life gets».

``... As childbearing became safer and more benign visions of nature arose, undesired outcomes of birth for women came to consist of a bad experience and psychological damage from missed bonding opportunities.

I find the paranoia of the American pseudo-midwives very disturbing, frankly, because what we are supposed to be doing is supporting the woman through her pregnancy and birth, and making it as safe as possible, not making her feel that everyone is against her and that we are deliberately doing things to harm her and her baby.

but as we all know home birth is safe.»

Evidence shows that out of hospital birth is as safe as hospital birth for LOW RISK women.

The evidence is that c - sections are safer for babies than vaginal deliveries are, and that planned, pre-labor c - sections — as opposed to emergency, during - labor c - sections — are as safe for the mother as vaginal births are.

If the early stillbirths are removed, the study may actually show that homebirth in Canada is not as safe as hospital birth.

HB midwives act like birth is as safe as a stroll through a vineyard on a sunny day, which begs the question — if it's inherently safe, then why does anyone need a midwife??

Doesn't take much of a slip down that slope from «the studies say this is as safe as hospital birth» via «the FHR always dips in second stage» to «OMFG, breathe baby!»

Hence the propaganda about birth being «as safe as life gets» and so on.

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.

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

Yes, I was thinking that the saying «birth is as safe as life gets» the other day when I was feeling just how unsafe life is.

Hospital birth isn't as safe as it seems.

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Observational studies of increasingly better quality and in different settings suggest that planned home birth in many places can be as safe as planned hospital birth and with less intervention and fewer complications.

Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34 Today one in four or 25 % of women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for mother or baby.