Sentences with phrase «at homebirth as»

Maybe I'm wrong looking at the increased neonatal death rate in MANA's study, the increased risk of HIE in January 2014 ACOG, the increased risk of Apgars of 0 at 5 minutes (Grunebaum 2014) at homebirth as compared to hospital birth.

So your logic is that because there are fewer babies that died last year at Homebirth as compared to all the other 99 % of the population who chose hospital birth, that Homebirth is safer?

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I had a c - section that started out as a homebirth, and my (very very long) labor at home was WAY less dramatic than that homebirth scene.

I can tell you, however, that as a homebirth advocate I have received numerous letters over the years from grieving mothers who wonder if their hospital born baby might have survived (or avoided injury) had they been born at home.

I have a 2 - yr - old I would love to have be at our birth (planned for a birth center but looking into homebirth as well).

If I was in Szabo's situation (and didn't want a homebirth), I probably would just labor at home as long as possible.

I know that it isn't for everyone, but if you feel at all drawn to homebirth, I say «Go for it — it's not as mysterious as it sounds.»

The regulars here are pretty up on these things and the most recent studies of homebirth have as far as I know have universally shown the homebirth has at least 3x the perinatal death rate of similar risk hospital birth.

Leaving aside for the moment that this is the same group who crowed over a 20 % increase in homebirths from from 0.56 % to 0.67 % of US births, does dismissing the absolute number of death as low fully convey what is at stake in the decision to attempt homebirth?

Perhaps more importantly, though, homebirth advocates will be able to point to this study as evidence that opponents of homebirth disingenuously sliced and diced the data to make hospital birth look good on at least one criterion.

Since 2 out of 3 babies who die at homebirth could have been saved in a hospital, homebirth is not «as safe as life gets.»

We know it's higher than in hospital, but that is at least partly due to inadequate midwifery education and to some high risk women being considered as suitable candidates for homebirth, so it's a foregone conclusion that the stats will be bad.

As 2 out of 3 babies who die at homebirth could have been saved in a hospital, living close to the hospital is not close enough.

In fact, the authors go so far as to deliberately obfuscate the increased neonatal death rate at homebirth.

In Australia giving birth at a public hospital is free, as well as giving birth in a birth centre (I don't know of any private birth centres) and so are the hospital based homebirth programs.

Given that intermittent monitoring was stated as one of the risks involved in homebirth, what does that say about intermittent monitoring in the hospital, assuming monitoring is done at roughly the same intervals?

I knew I had chosen homebirth for a reason that was as much physical and mental — even though we were treated wonderfully at St. Lukes, my body sensed I was in a hospital and shut down my labor!

As one homebirth mother, who was a veteran homebirther and prominent in the homebirth community, said at an inquest into the death of her baby last year, «If you are the «one», it's forever.

I have had five babies, all came out of my nether regions, one was born at home with fantastic community midwives, and one started out as a homebirth and ended up in hospital.

As much as some people dislike Dr. Amy's tone, her blunt, unapologetic approach does seem to bring people by — even if it is just to gawk at how ebil we are, express hate, or try to «educate» us with a round of Homebirth BingAs much as some people dislike Dr. Amy's tone, her blunt, unapologetic approach does seem to bring people by — even if it is just to gawk at how ebil we are, express hate, or try to «educate» us with a round of Homebirth Bingas some people dislike Dr. Amy's tone, her blunt, unapologetic approach does seem to bring people by — even if it is just to gawk at how ebil we are, express hate, or try to «educate» us with a round of Homebirth Bingo.

She apprenticed in a rural homebirth practice as well as another birth center during her studies between 2005 and 2008, but came to land back at Andaluz as a primary midwife in 2008.

Homebirth as an option is raised often enough at lay lead peer to peer breastfeeding support groups and when the general media touts the safety of Homebirth i am left shaking my head in disbelief.

I am an ob / gyn working at a hospital that cares for women who have attempted a homebirth in our area and who need tranport to the hospital when things don't work out as planned.

So for me, when the subject of homebirth comes up and this study is cited, I am at a loss as to how to refute the findings.

Indeed, I well imagine that ethical, responsible, intelligent homebirth providers such as yourselves are absolutely horrified at the incompetent, irresponsible and unethical behaviour shown by several homebirth providers.

To admit that homebirth led to the preventable death of the baby is to admit that they weren't educated at all; that rather than being special for choosing homebirth, they've marked themselves as gullible and selfish.

These new papers add valuable information by looking at severe neurologic outcomes as well and showing that such outcomes are much more common at planned homebirth.

The critical difference between the babies who die as a result of a hospital birth and those who die as a result of a homebirth is that those who die at home DID N'T HAVE TO DIE!

The two larger hospitals have lower c - section rates than the smaller hospital closest to me and they also boast women's clinics with multiple midwives on staff, but my homebirth midwife recommended an OB at the closer hospital — a personal friend of hers — who had given birth her own child at The Farm (with Ina May as a back - up midwife!)

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.

The three recent papers published in American Journal of ObGyn: Wax metaanalysis (2010), Chervenak (2013), Grunebaum **** (see note at bottom)(Apgar 0, 2013) and the U.K. Birth Place study (2013) report perinatal death rates from homebirth as 3 times or 10 times higher than perinatal death rates in the first week than hospital birth.

All the existing scientific evidence, as well as state and national statistics shows that American homebirth has an increased risk of death of at least 3 - 9 times higher than comparable risk hospital birth.

So homebirth it was for this family, who had two older children, one born at home as well.

Our midwife, a traditionally trained homebirth midwife, requires an ultrasound at 20 weeks to rule out abnormalities that would prevent a home birth (or, in her case, more than twins as she will not deliver 3 + babies at home or won't deliver twins if baby A is not head down).

It is a fundamental difference in outlook that causes American homebirth to be at least three times as risky as hospital birth.

Homebirth is in America as Homebirth in America does, yet the Homebirth advocates who are looking at the actually data are making excuses about the worse outcomes as they speculate that it is either due to the high risks births that were included, or because they must have been farther away from the hospital than just 5 minutes, or just ignoring the outcomes data and focusing on the low intervention data.

But too many people out there are looking at your press release and saying they knew all along that Homebirth was as safe as hospital birth.

The paper uses the term: «5 minute Apgar score of 0» as newborns that were born with a heart beat but the midwife or doctor attending the planned homebirth were unable to resuscitate the baby, so at 5 minutes the Apgar was 0 and the baby was dead.

Finally, an official body has noted that homebirth midwives, organized as Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), have refused to release their own data on babies who have died at homebirth.

The nurse - midwifery team at Believe Midwifery Services, LLC is as equipped, if not more so, than the local remote hospital to handle obstetric emergencies and to date, has a successfully assisted all their VBAC clients in a subsequent homebirth with the exception of two who self - elected a non-emergent transfer for pain management.

As a homebirth midwife, I provide care that fosters low - risk pregnancy and natural birth at home.

This positive attitude towards homebirth makes so much sense and is one clue to how we can make our birthing system safer: A baby slated to be born at home who is instead delivered in the hospital should not be seen as «a failed homebirth,» but as a safe delivery.

I've met a few who described their birth experience as amazing (most of them were homebirths or in birth centers — which are a fringe practice here too, but at least with real, medically trained midwives), but I wasn't there so I can't say how much of that was reality vs. glossing over it, and how the birth REALLY went safety-wise.

She went to get some coffee and breakfast at about 6 a.m., and I laid there, listening to Tre's heartbeat on the monitor and mourning the loss of my homebirth, and sobbing softly as I thought of all the things that were going to happen that day.