She had been contacted several weeks earlier by an expectant mom and her partner to be their childbirth
doula at a hospital birth.
By the time the
teacher at our hospital birth class announced that she wouldn't explain how to use formula because it was against hospital regulations, I was pretty fed up.
If so, de Jonge compared the number of women who SURVIVED severe complications at homebirth to the number of women who SURVIVED severe
complications at hospital birth.
AJOG neglects to point out that having only one maternal
death at hospital birth would be a great blessing when in the US annually 277 young healthy women bleed to death among the 1,386,000 cesareans performed each year.
We want to know how the death rate at homebirth compares with the death
rate at all hospital births, not the death rate at tertiary facilities.
I was
just at a hospital birth that was so mismanaged (with cervidil) the mom had double peak two and a half minute long contractions for hours without any cervical change and the baby crashed repeatedly, almost resulting in a c - section.
The neonatal death rate including the depth and breadth of
risk at hospital births was lower than the self - selected, «low - risk,» health - conscious group who tends to choose home birth that Johnson and Daviss studied.
I had my first baby this past October
naturally at a hospital birth center with a midwife... it was precisely the labor experience we wanted, and it was wonderful.
The paper reports an impossibly low Perinatal Mortality Rate of about 0.16 / 1000 (1.6 / 10,000 births) for full term birth in hospital 2007 - 2010: The article claims that
at hospital births there was only 1.6 stillbirths per 10,000 full term births after 37 weeks.
Having a Baby over the age of 35, There was a vast difference in my experiences through these two births and a vast difference in the way they were handled at the hospitals
De Jonge compared the number of women who SURVIVED severe complications at homebirth to the number of women who SURVIVED severe
complications at hospital birth.
If you are having your birth in a hospital or a birthing center, take a
look at Hospital Births and Birthing Centers so you can know what to expect.