Sentences with phrase «at homebirth in»

In other words, most of the babies who die at homebirth in the US could have been saved in the hospital, whereas none of the babies who died at the hospital could have been saved at home.

Research reveals that there are only 2 acute conditions that might occur at homebirth in which the mother or baby may have a better outcome had they planned a hospital birth, namely: Cord prolapse and Amniotic Fluid Embolism (AFE).

Not exact matches

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

My second birth was at home and in the water and wonderful and I'm planning a third homebirth.

We had chosen to have a homebirth through the midwives at the birth centre in St George hospital.

Although tragic, cord prolapse and AFE occur rarely at homebirth, 1/5000 and 1/500, 000 respectively, when balanced with the dozens of acute emergency conditions endangering the health of mother and baby that occur at planned hospital birth caused by intervening in the birth process, the scales tip easily in favor of planned attended homebirth for low risk women.

Summary: The deaths caused by rare acute condition at planned attended low risk homebirth that might have had a better outcome in hospital are outweighed by the deaths and morbidity due to common acute conditions caused by hospital interventions.

Instead of excluding the high risk births from both groups, they include the homebirth outcomes of premature births at 34 - 37 weeks gestation (13 - 17) breech and twins (13,14) lethal anomalies incompatible with life (13,14) unattended homebirths (15,16) unplanned homebirths (15,16) or women who became risked out of homebirth by becoming high risk at the end of pregnancy, had hospital births, but are included in the homebirth group.

It happens so rarely that the rate of death from AFE (1/1, 000,000) and cord prolapse (1/100, 000) at homebirth is a miniscule fraction of the maternal mortality (1/5, 000) and perinatal mortality (1.7 / 1000) from elective cesarean surgery in hospital (34).

Perinatal mortality rates for hospital births of low risk women are similar to outcomes of planned homebirth in general, but the maternal morbidity at planned hospital births is much higher.

In Missouri, the risk of intrapartum death at homebirth is nearly 20 times higher than hospital birth.

Since 2 out of 3 babies who die at homebirth could have been saved in the hospital, hiring an attendant who is trained in «normal birth» is not going to save those babies.

Dr. Tuteur writes about more than 10 homebirth deaths a year, many of which take place at or are called at the hospital, the majority of which meet those criteria for being included in the analysis.

How many of the 27,000 babies in their database of outcomes from 2001 - 2008 died at the hands of homebirth midwives?

There may be a few more bad outcomes in the homebirth groups depending on how you look at the data, but when you consider the number of births we are looking at, the absolute number is so very few that the argument is a little ridiculous.»

Homebirth midwives, since they aren't under any legal requirement to keep complete records [or any records at all, really] in the US, would probably fudge or omit such extreme outcomes except that most of these cases wind up in hospitals and can't be hidden.

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?

2 out of 3 babies who die at homebirth could have been saved in 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.

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Since 2 out of 3 babies who die at homebirth could have been saved in the hospital, trusting birth is a bizarre and deadly strategy.

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.»

Like most Americans, I simply thought you needed medication in the birthing process even though my sister, Amy, is a nurse midwife who specialized in homebirth and is now working to change this misperception and to empower women to give birth naturally (check out her blog at scienceandsensibility.org).

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.

Yet another mother from the Homebirth board at Mothering.com has lost her baby in a homebirthHomebirth board at Mothering.com has lost her baby in a homebirthhomebirth tragedy.

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

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.

Shouldn't self - proclaimed «midwives» Mary Barhite and Jacqueline Proffit look even a tiny bit remorseful or at least sad in the wake of presiding over yet another homebirth death in the state of North Carolina?

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 programIn 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 programin 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?

In other words, there was no difference in severe acute maternal morbidity (SAMM) between home and hospital among nulliparous women and a slightly lower rate of SAMM for parous women at homebirtIn other words, there was no difference in severe acute maternal morbidity (SAMM) between home and hospital among nulliparous women and a slightly lower rate of SAMM for parous women at homebirtin severe acute maternal morbidity (SAMM) between home and hospital among nulliparous women and a slightly lower rate of SAMM for parous women at homebirth.

I never cease to be amazed at the pervasive contempt in which professional homebirth advocates hold their own followers.

They compared the death rate at homebirth with the death rate in tertiary [high risk] facilities, but that's not what we want to know.

In other words, any way you choose to look at it, no matter how carefully you slice and dice the data, there is simply no getting around the fact that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage.

In those 16 years, I have seen babies die at the hospital and NOT ONE come in from a homebirth deaIn those 16 years, I have seen babies die at the hospital and NOT ONE come in from a homebirth deain from a homebirth dead!

but in my thinking, that is EXACTLY what homebirth is supposed to provide: the environment and support to do what can normally and naturally be done at home, with the wisdom and assessment of a care provider who knows when the risk is to great, thus utilizing home and hospital for their exact right purposes.

Our practice is unique however, in that we have a higher ratio of trained staff than most all homebirth practices in the country (three assistants at each birth all equipped to provide a full resuscitation), and we carry far more equipment than generally secured by midwives.

(I am an Australian midwife and also had homebirths prior to becoming a midwife) Your system in America is quite radically different to ours here in Australia and so we don't have the same problem with poorly trained and undereducated midwives and although we still have ideologically driven midwifery, where process is promoted over outcome, we have strict protocols, guidelines and governance at all levels to ensure dangerous midwives are prevented from continuing to practice and women and their families are protected and have recourse for compensation.

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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.

Apparently Sherry was «so calm» and «so experienced» (since she has been a homebirth midwife since 1975 in a town that just now is reaching a population of 13,000) that she delivered a FOOTLING BREECH AT HOME.

Homebirth at its best results in a delay compared to the same situation in hospital.

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.

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.

I don't know any rational woman who would go ahead with a homebirth in the knowledge that at least 1 in 500 babies, even in optimal circumstances, die.

Dutch midwife Ank de Jonge is at it again, slicing and dicing data in yet another unsuccessful attempt to show that homebirth is safe.

What floors me is how people continue to ignore the glaringly obvious fact, that homebirth, even under the best circumstances, continues to kill mothers and babies at a rate that is far higher than births that occur in hospital settings.

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.