Sentences with phrase «at homebirth if»

There really shouldn't be any deaths at homebirth if candidates are being selected correctly and if transfers are occurring appropriately and in a timely fashion.

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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.

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

Simply: If hospital birth were useful, the data would support it, but all homebirth studies (1 - 20), show better outcomes of low risk women at planned attended homebirth.

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.»

Simply put, the death rate was not zero and until the difference (if any) between maternal deaths at home and in the hospital is determined, we can not draw any conclusions about the safety of homebirth for Dutch mothers.

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.

If my sister should decide, after looking at the risk rates and her mitigating circumstances, she still wants to homebirth, I would recognize that the absolute risk is still pretty low and not try to talk her into or out of anything.

I sometimes wonder if these women, who plan to repeat a homebirth after having a homebirth that resulted in a dead baby really want to have living children at all.

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 Bingo.

He probably would never been in the NICU at all if it weren't for your insistence on having a homebirth.

I've done homebirths [in the UK] and the potential for irreparable disaster was present at every one, although there was a crisis in only one [abruption] and mother and baby were both saved, they were also at much greater risk at home than in the hospital and in the end required much more intensive treatment [largely because of time delays] than if the same situation had happened in hospital.

If I, or my daughter, had needed emergency medical care (or worse) I think that the last person I would want to face at the hospital would be a doctor with a grudge against homebirth like this doctor has.

I wonder what those authors have to say to «low - risk» women who have lost their babies at «maybe equally safe if not safer» homebirths?

Someone, probably, will say seriously, that it's ONLY the homebirth midwives who are respecting a woman's right to a vaginal breech, twin, or post dates birth at home, and HER right to the lower rate of intervention at home trumps the mythical rights of the baby, and that since it's the sisters in chains that are taking back a woman's right to physiologic birth where SHE wants it that IF there is an increased risk to the baby it's the mother's right to take that risk.

When this 20 % risk of death is compared to the 0.02 % rate of cord prolapse during labor at homebirth that might have a better outcome if it happened in hospital, this means that a low risk woman has a 1000 times higher chance of having a life threatening complication either to her life or her fetus / newborns life at planned hospital birth, than if she plans to have an attended homebirth with a well - trained practitioner.

Even if we just take early and late neonatal stats, leaving out HALF of the homebirth deaths (22/44) it's 1.29 / 1000 for MANA's almost all white, majority college educated, mostly singleton, mostly low - risk healthy women in their 20s and 30s, vs. 0.81 for EVERYONE delivering at term in the hospital.

Therefore, no one has to provide you with the means of having a homebirth, but no one can stop you if you choose to give birth at home.

The reality is, and you at least should know this so you'll transfer her ASAP if something seems like it's going wrong, that even low risk homebirths can go bad.

And huge thanks for the Birthrights link — I will be having a homebirth, but if I have to transfer in I will be refusing care at the hospital that gave me both an epidural without consent and opiates against my stated will (I'm allergic).

When I said the word «homebirth» to ANYONE I got a host of horror stories that always ended the same «and if i hadn't of been at the hospital my baby would of DIED»: /

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).

Your wife may be disappointed that you do not approve of homebirth, but that is nothing compared to the lifelong heartache both she and you will endure if your baby dies at home because the emergency treatment he or she needed was too far away to make a difference.

Unfortunately, even if a problem at a homebirth is due to something like an unavoidable genetic defect, people will say, «That would have never happened at the hospital!»

If you go to the Hurt By Homebirth website, none of these women were informed of the risks they were taking when they chose to have their babies at home.

If they still choose to homebirth after full disclosure of evidence, at least I know they are really making their own FULLY informed choice!

And honestly, if they can't afford a hospital birth, chances are they can't afford a homebirth midwife — who are generally not cheap, who will not generally make payment arrangements (or rather, will not make the same type hospitals make, payable after the fact and in small monthly increments for years; midwife payment arrangements tend to be along the lines of «Half the fee at the first appointment, and the other half a month or two later»), and who will not deliver a baby without having been paid in full prior to onset of labor (I don't have a statistic, but it seems most midwives have this particular payment policy, and payment is non-refundable).

Every year at least 100 US mothers die from cesareans (1/10, 000 among the million cesareans per year) and would be alive if they had had planned attended homebirths.

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.

In my experiences with homebirth midwives that practice in Illinois (there is still a large Mennonite population, and a number of women who still wish to birth at home), the recommend having a homebirth friendly Pediatrician in place because, «there are orders to call CPS if a homebirthed baby or mom transfers to a hospital».

Ask a doula about which hospitals are best for breastfeeding and other issues, because even if you choose a homebirth, anything can happen and you wouldn't want to have to choose a hospital at literally the last minute.

Instead of investigating Amy Medwin who presided over homebirth deaths in North Carolina, the Friends of North Carolina Midwives held a rally to support her, without making any attempt at all to determine if she committed malpractice.

What I disagree with our clinic about in retrospect is that: a) I think induction at 41 weeks should be mandatory no matter what; and b) if homebirth is going to be a reality, it should only be after you have established that you have a proven uterus, pelvis, etc... and if you had an absolutely «natural» birth in the hospital with ZERO interventions and complications.

I was expecting my pre-schooler when this post was written and wasn't a reader of this blog yet, had only seen positive things about homebirth, and was still convinced that having a baby at home was dumb, because of the what - ifs.

If you are interested in reframing this conversation to a more practical and useful level for consumers, providers, and other valuable stakeholders check out the work being done to address these issues on the Homebirth Summit website at http://www.homebirthsummit.org/.