Sentences with phrase «at home births because»

And yes, babies and mothers have died at home births because unforseen complications arose.

No, I don't believe that there is a 3 - 4 fold risk of perinatal death at home birth because as I said in my comment, we don't have the intrapartum data from hospitals in order to even make an apples to apples comparison.

Not exact matches

Jesus» birth at Bethlehem has been questioned, because it seems unlikely that in a census people would be required to travel to the home of their ancestors.

There are many reasons given, for example, I chose to birth at home because I desired a natural birth and wanted to avoid an unnecessary caesarean section.

Because no: moms who birth at home are not just biting a bullet and suffering.

There are many more personal reasons that are given, for example, Caroline chose to birth at home because she desired a natural birth and wanted to avoid an unnecessary caesarean section.

Our midwives also brought their own equipment (because no, midwives attending home births aren't just pulling a MacGyver with whatever random stuff moms have at home).

People generally choose to birth at home because it feels more comfortable and they wish to avoid routine hospital interventions such as continuous electronic fetal monitoring or IV fluids.

Just because a birth starts at home doesn't mean it has to finish there; if something goes wrong, or if the mom changes her mind, they transfer.

For example, our midwife, Caroline chose to birth at home because she desired a natural or «physiologic» birth and wanted to avoid an unnecessary caesarean section.

I chose to give birth at home with midwives primarily because it seemed a lot simpler and less scary than my alternatives, so I in no way think I am more badass than any other mom because of how I birthed, or the fact that I am a biological mom at all.

I chose to birth at home because I did not want to undergo another unnecessary cesarean.

It's a huge part of why I birth at home, because it was the only way I could guarantee that my priorities at birth would be respected.

Calling your midwife at the end of a pregnancy because you are just realizing an expectation that she has expressed throughout to your wife is fairly inappropriate and demonstrates you haven't safely committed or planned for a safe home birth (waiting to pay her until the very last minute or until she has to give the «or else» speech does the same).

I gave birth at home because women have been doing it for centuries before me.

I am a big proponent of giving birth at home because of these experiences.

Women and men who choose to birth at home, do so today because they believe it to be the safest option (Boucher et al, 2007).

, we called our midwives who gently told us that we couldn't have a home birth because we were at 35 weeks which was too early for a homebirth.

We're planning the birth of our second at home because modern well trained midwives and nurse - midwives carry all of the emergency equipment that birth centers have.

The key point for us is that first, it's the US homebirth we generally discuss here and second, it's impossible for a midwife to ensure a safe birth when after the mother's DEATH, a trained midwife feels that she, the midwife, is the victim, because the bereaved husband somehow forgot that his wife had a «really lovely spontaneous birth at home» and listened to her, the midwife, when she told him over the phone that transfer wasn't necessary because her, the midwife's husband, would not have listened to the midwife but to his wife when she told him, «I want to go to the hospital.»

My wife and I had our first 2 in a hospital and it almost killed them because of the drugs they forced on my wife the last 2 were born at home in a pool the 1st homebirth we had a midwife present the 2nd one the midwife was an hour and a half late so I delivered our daughter by myself it was awsome and now my wife is PG with our 5th baby we have the same midwife who was late to our last birth and we already know she is not going to be here ontime mostly because she lives 2 hours away from where we live and we are ok with this.

1.1.2 Explain to both multiparous and nulliparous women that they may choose any birth setting (home, freestanding midwifery unit, alongside midwifery unit or obstetric unit), and support them in their choice of setting wherever they choose to give birth: Advise low ‑ risk multiparous women that planning to give birth at home or in a midwifery ‑ led unit (freestanding or alongside) is particularly suitable for them because the rate of interventions is lower and the outcome for the baby is no different compared with an obstetric unit.

When we arrived we had been turned away at Texas Children's Hospital by the OB on call because we were a home birth transfer.

An unassisted home birth may be your only option if you can't find a provider who will attend your birth at home because of distance or other factors, or if you are strictly against birthing at a hospital or birth center.

Home birth families are generally quite aware that hospitals are full of germs, sick people, and put them at risk for poor outcomes simply because they walked through the door, but there isn't much discussion about going beyond birthing in your own to germs, to making a concerted effort to birth in a green environment.

One of the reasons I chose to attempt a home birth after losing my daughter was because I thought I would feel more relaxed and safer at home.

I wish everyone with low risk pregnancies could give birth at home because it was such an awesome experience that I will do it for every subsequent pregnancy that i can.

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.

I also could never give birth at home because I would be fearful of not being in close proximity to help should the need arise.

I thought that home birth was inherently risky, even when candidates are properly screened and transported, simply because some complications occur without warning and can't be treated adequately at home, or are more difficult to detect outside of a hospital.

Even Rixa Freeze once said that the reason she gives birth at home is because she knows that if she were at a hospital she'd ask for an epidural, because, you know, that the absolute worse thing that can happen.

Perhaps because I'd just given birth (at home), but also because it's a topic I'm pretty passionate about — as evidenced by my being a birth photographer and doula.

I will say, I had a home birth in large part because I didn't want to be separated from her at a time when, for me, it made the most sense to exist as a family unit, whole and complete.

I am surprised at how rare it was for my family... our daughter slept through the night the second week home, I had to wake her up to feed her, I would wake up to tears because of engorgement and ended up just pumping since trying to wake her up was just a terror in itself... so when my sisters had moved in with us right before they gave birth it was soo strange that to me that their daughters were up all night (even though I knew it was normal) I only hope that I will be blessed once again with our little man who is to make his appearance in August.

Sometimes women who give birth at home or in birth centers erroneously believe they can't have a rupture because they are not using Pitocin or prostaglandin gel.

In planning a home birth, my primary focus was not actually avoiding a C - section so much because of the above reasons (I wasn't aware of these at the time).

Furthermore... people don't turn into fools and trust midwives because midwives tell them they should fear the hospital... many of them acknowledge that there are plenty of valid reasons to birth in a hospital, and that only low risk women should birth at home.

I think that if you look at the Cochran Review, which did a meta - analysis of studies of home birth, they actually rejected those studies because they skew the results of the analysis by including those unplanned home births.

«Call me a nonconformist, because I choose to birth at home in defiance of a powerful technocratic system.»

While I believe giving birth should be a natural experience (because of the number of unnecessary inductions for convenience, Pitocin augmentation that led to early epidural that ended with a C - S for failure to progress) I would have to say that the thought of an unassisted birth at home is the scariest thing I have heard lately.

Although it appears that the preventable newborn deaths at home and hospital birth balance out, homebirth is clearly safer when you take into consideration the risk of maternal death that 20 % of low risk U.S. women face as a result of avoidable cesareans which became necessary because they went to hospital.

Having a home birth because the risk is there, but it's low and you figure most births are uncomplicated and since your wife is low risk, choosing the more cost efficient home birth route makes more sense since you MAY have problems with at home, but paying out of pocket for hospital care is for sure an expense you can't afford when everything is most likely going to be ok anyway.

«After the negative experiences at the hospital, I became a doula and attended numerous home births and hospital births, so I felt 100 - per - cent safe for my own home birth because labour and delivery were no longer scary for me.

While this is true - the experience and mother's feelings do come in into helping to birth better, but I think the biggest reason why women are birthing at home is not because of the candles, and comfort of their homes.

Because midwifery is not formally recognized in the law, there are no standards, but the Association of Practicing Midwives insists on all its members having a minimum of three years of training, and that at least two qualified midwives assist in home births.

The statistics is not great, but it is getting better because the percentage of women who give births at home in U.S. increased by 29 % from 2004 to 2009.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

But of course you would still blame it on them because a hospital birth isn't what your EGO needed so you were forced to birth at home far away from the evil drugs that you might wish to take because they are readily available.

I never said a baby can't be delivered at home, what I'm saying is that it is risky business because labour and birth are not always predictable.

STEPHANIE GLOVER: And now if you're having hospital birth because I know at home you have free rain with candles, turning - off your lights, or turning the dimmer or whatever, but in a hospital you're a little bit more limited.