Sentences with phrase «babies born at home dying»

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But it wasn't safer than a hospital birth, at least not if the definition of safety is was your baby more at risk of dying because she was born at home.

Women need to realize that even though yes, numerous babies have been born at home safely — there are numerous others that died.

We have had several home birth babies die in our community over the past year, and looking at the medical records it seems very unlikely that any of them would have died had they been born in a hospital.

But on reflection, it strikes me as perfectly possible that a fair number of the most compromised babies, who would end up ill or disabled (for whatever reason) if born in hospital will simply die if born at home.

Let's give a little context to what these numbers mean: for every 10,000 babies born at home in the Netherlands, only 6 - 7 babies will die; for every 10,000 babies born at home in the USA, 17 - 18 babies will die.

(early neonatal death means the baby was born alive but died sometime in the first seven days), a baby is three times more likely to die at a home birth in the USA with a mortality rate of 1.71 / 1000 versus only 0.64 / 1000 babies dying in the Netherlands.

A baby born at home with a CPM is 2.4 times more likely to die than baby born with a CNM in a birth center.

This means for every 10,000 babies born to low risk moms at home with a CPM, 7 babies will die that would have lived had the mother been under the care of a CNM at a birth center.

This means for every 10,000 babies born at home with a CPM, 12 babies will die that would have lived had the mother been under the care of a CNM at a birth center.

In a 2002 study, Seattle pediatrician Jenny W. Pang, MD, MPH, and colleagues from the Washington School of Public Health reported that babies delivered at home have nearly twice the risk of dying shortly after birth as those born in the hospital.