Not exact matches
While Push Back may prompt important discussions about birthing, feeding, and early caring among parents - to - be,
at times it is
too black - and - white, failing to acknowledge that
homebirths can be made safer, for example, or that certain close and responsive interactions with adults are a foundation for brain development.
, 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.
I care about babies who die
at homebirth, and the regular readers of this blog do,
too.
Perhaps it will eventually dawn on Bielanko that women and babies were dying in droves
at those
homebirths, but that's probably
too much to hope for.
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.
Death
at homebirth isn't rare; it is all
too common.
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.
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.