Women do indeed deserve respectful, competent care, but your aim is clearly to set up an adversarial relationship between women and their doctors, all while promoting homebirth, a practice that is demonstrably more dangerous for
babies than hospital birth.
There are no studies that demonstrate that homebirth with a US homebirth midwife is less likely to kill or permanently disable either mother or
baby than hospital birth under the care of an ob.
I believe that the majority of deliveries do not require a physician, but I also read several hundred medical journal articles a year, and it is clear that home deliveries are much less safe for
the baby than hospital deliveries.
You can't accept the fact that MANA's own datasets prove that homebirth in the US is more dangerous to
the baby than hospital birth, yet you persist in flinging mostly lame rejoinders and getting your dander up when anyone has the temerity to call you on your ignorance.
Not exact matches
Typical birth in a US
hospital «costs» about 20 % more
than the Lindo Wing, a private, luxury wing in London where the royal
baby was born
Annually, more
than 14,000
babies are expected to be born at Winnie Palmer
Hospital, making it the busiest labor and delivery unit in the state of Florida.
«No better example of this exists
than right here in Central Florida, where our company has been a steadfast supporter of Arnold Palmer
Hospital for Children and the Winnie Palmer
Hospital for Women &
Babies.»
None of the parents knew that their beloved and winning coach — this glib, engaging soul who had lived with and among them, who had so generously
baby - sat their kids, taken the youngsters to movies and bought them expensive gifts — had undergone more
than five years of treatment in two state mental
hospitals for child molesting.
The home bili - blanket is much easier to nurse with
than the limited time you can remove a
baby from the
hospital bili - lights.
There are VERY few complications that will kill a mother or
baby in less time
than it takes to get to the
hospital, and those types of complications will probably kill you no matter where you are, before anyone even knows something is wrong.
I might not have had that horrible surgical experience, might have been able to hold my
baby sooner
than 8 hours after birth, would not have had my system pumped full of drugs I'm allergic to, and would have been able to nurse my
baby, instead of the uneducated
hospital staff shoving bottles at him.
I already think that the measures they force us to take in the
hospital lead to more unsuccessful VBACs
than increased safety of mama and
baby, but to take away the choice of women, to force them to have a major and potentially unnecessary surgery is infuriating and disheartening.
A woman who had a still birth with a midwife present summed it up beautifully — home birth and UC
babies must be more cherished
than hospital birthed
babies.
Even the
babies who received human milk only during the time they were in
hospital showed higher scores
than those who had only formula in
hospital.
* More
than 100 groups ask 2,600
hospitals to stop samples * Advocates say free samples undermine breastfeeding * Industry says giveaways offer information By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters)- New parents leaving U.S.
hospitals often take home a corporate gift along with their
babies: a tote bag filled with infant formula.
Australian researchers found that new mothers were more likely to be breastfeeding their newborns a few months after delivery if their
hospitals followed the
Baby - Friendly
Hospital Initiative (BFHI) guidelines, than if they gave birth in a hospital accredited by the Ini
Hospital Initiative (BFHI) guidelines,
than if they gave birth in a
hospital accredited by the Ini
hospital accredited by the Initiative.
At Advocate, the first
hospital in the area to feed low birth weight
babies and others at risk for the condition exclusively with breast milk, NEC is down by more
than half, said Jeffrey George,
hospital director of neonatology.
Another lengthy scan with very little discussion between the technician and us, again our worrying about our being steamrolled into a management plan without through evaluation of the risks and benefits, or being essentially pushed into a
hospital birth because it would be best for the
baby but also mean that I would not have the option of birthing vaginally was all a little more
than my tear ducts could bear.
«Rather
than marketing products directly to consumers, the companies used cash grants, free formula and other
baby products to persuade
hospitals and physicians to endorse a particular formula to their patients,» Doyle said.
Australian researchers found that new mothers were more likely to be breastfeeding their newborns a few months after delivery if their
hospitals followed the
Baby - Friendly
Hospital Initiative (BFHI) guidelines,
than if they gave...
Despite the fact that breast milk is the perfect food for
babies, containing more
than 400 nutrients that can not be duplicated by formula, fewer
than half of all
babies are exclusively breastfed during their first day or two in the
hospital.
Low risk birth in the Netherlands at home with a midwife is more likely to result in a DEAD
baby than high risk birth in a
hospital with a doctor.
while being coerced to push even though I wanted to breath the
babies down, I didn't get to see them at all for 15 hours after they were born because the
hospital staff didn't get their act together, not because it was medically necessary, etc., so much so that the head of OB (my office doc) later admitted they had me on suicide watch because what happened was so different
than my birth plan... I wasn't stuck on exact details, especially because twins throw a loop in all of it, but it was nothing like I had hoped for, at all.
A nurse informed me at the
hospital that it takes more calories to feed a
baby than it does to make a
baby.
Yes,
babies die in
hospitals — though they are predominantly premature, no prenatal care, congenital defects, etc, not HEALTHY TERM
babies — but the RELATIVE RISK is MUCH lower
than comparable risk homebirth.
In Oregon,
babies die at the hands of CPMs at a much higher rate
than they do in
hospital, comparing low - risk women.
It is rare to have a oxygen - deprived
baby inside their mother for longer
than 2 - 3 minutes in a
hospital.
Generally,
hospitals don't do investigations on the death of trisomy
babies, yet more
than 20
babies are considered to have died PREVENTABLE deaths in this single particular
hospital under midwife - led care.
• 8 out of 10 people (80 %) think fathers should feel as able as mothers to ask for flexible working • 8 out of 10 women (80 %) and more
than 6 out of 10 men (62 %) agree that fathers are as good as mothers at caring for children • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 42 % strongly, that society values a child's relationship with its mother more
than it values a child's relationship with its father • Almost 6 out of 10 (59 %) agree with the statement that society assumes mothers are good for children, fathers have to prove it • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that there should be a zero tolerance approach if fathers do not take on their parenting responsibilities • Almost 7 out of 10 (67 %) agree that dads should be encouraged to spend time in school reading with their child • 7 out of 10 (70 %) agree, 50 % strongly, that dads should be able to stay overnight with their partner in
hospital when their
baby is born.
It isn't just the
hospital refusing to educate or refusing to allow the
baby to supplement, it is also the other way around, more often
than not
More
than 20,000
hospitals world - wide have achieved
Baby Friendly status.
Breastfeeding rates have been shown to be higher among
babies born in
Baby - Friendly
hospitals than among
babies born in other
hospitals.
Other
than that the Spectra
Baby is still one of the best
hospital grade breast pump devices in the marketplace right now.
There is a much higher rate of infections to new moms and
babies in
hospitals than born at home.
If you are starting it straight out of the
hospital (maybe you decided on exclusive pumping before your
baby was born), I would recommend at least eight but no more
than ten pumping sessions per day.
There have been more
than one instance where a woman wanting a VBAC showed up at the
hospital with a crowning
baby and was given a c - section without her consent.
The suspected chylothorax and then pneumonia he caught in the
hospital kept us there longer
than most heart
babies.
Prentice, like more
than a dozen Chicago - area
hospitals, now emphasizes rooming in as part of its effort to earn a «
baby - friendly» designation offered by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund.
They found the massaged
babies gained 50 percent more weight each day
than their counterparts and were ready to leave the
hospital six days earlier at an average savings of $ 10,000 a child.
It is safer to have your
baby in Malaysia or Cuba, or even Lithuania,
than it is in a
hospital right here in the good old United States of America.
Lilly Padz - NA Nursing pillow - Yes, it does double dutty as a prop when they are little Milkies - NA Nipple cream - No, get the samples from the
hospital instead Nursing nightgown - No Bottle warmer - Yes Bottle dishwasher basket - Yes Bottle drying rack - Yes Highchair - No Booster Seat for Meals - Yes, still using ours with our teeny 3.5 year old Burp clothes - No, use cloth diapers
Baby bathtub - yes Nasal aspirator - No, the
hospital ones are better
than the ones you can buy
Baby fingernail clippers - Yes, if this is just the small clipper.
My question is: how long did you wait with your first
baby to go to the
hospital (or think makes the most sense, if you feel you went in earlier
than necessary)?
The perinatal (around the time of birth) death rate of
babies born in nonhospital settings is much higher
than for
babies born in a
hospital, even though their mothers are supposedly lower - risk.
In some ways the situation in Israel is better
than in the US in that mothers are expected to nurse their
babies in the
hospital, and there is a very high initiation rate.
If you are planning to use the milk in an area where more
than one
baby has milk stored (e.g.
hospital or day care) them remember to write you
baby's name on it.
I have been informed that the chances of death or significant injury to myself and / or to my
baby are at least four times higher
than the chances of death or significant injury within a
hospital setting.
If it is too hard it will place undue stress on you and your
baby and that will effect your milk production more
than a nurse giving formula in the
hospital.
Hospital grade breast pumps are a must if you plan to be gone more
than 6 hours per day from your
baby.
Ina Maey also let her own
baby die rather
than take him to a
hospital.
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.