But I absolutely have seen / heard tragic stories in the media
of babies dying in cribs as well.
When babies die because of aggressive breastfeeding promotion, they have two choices.
Many
babies die from choking on popcorn, so it's definitely not a food you want to risk giving to your child.
The key point about homebirth is that MORE
babies die at homebirth than in the hospital.
And that criterion, the fact that the homebirth
babies died during labor instead of after labor, is absurd.
Of course, if you look at absolute numbers,
more babies die in the hospital.
The finding of lower intervention rates in the homebirth group is nothing to celebrate when more
babies died as a result.
She has inadvertently produced the ideal teaching video for demonstrating how and
why babies die in increased numbers at homebirth.
Every year around the world, about 2.6 million
babies die within their first month of life — and some countries see more of those tragic deaths than others.
The point is there are people with inadequate qualifications passing themselves off as medical professionals who are greatly increasing the risk of an otherwise
healthy baby dying at home birth.
When I was pregnant, I often wanted to take language out of it altogether and hold up a card universally understood as the «my
first baby died» card.
In some cases,
babies died on a couch or adult - sized bed, both of which are considered unsafe places.
When you hear reports
about babies dying of flu during the first year of life, you need to understand that those babies were not breastfed.
Babies die all the time at homebirth, and the biggest risk factors lead to the greatest number of deaths.
It's sad to think about, but more than 3 million
newborn babies die in developing countries, every year.
The increased risk is perceived because in general if you had a normal birth the first time round then the chances of your
second baby dying is much less than your first.
The doctor in this case failed to provide her treatment and as a result her
unborn baby died.
Do Not Forget to Take Your Child Out of the Car Every
year babies die because their parents accidentally leave them in the back seat of the car.
I wrote about this in a blog post a few months back when I commented on the news story about a vegan Mother whose
breastfed baby died.
This does not change the fact that
babies die born in hospitals and babies live born at home and vice versa.
To what extent if at all is there a double standard in the manner in which the causes of and remedies for preventing infant deaths,
when babies die in cribs vs. adult beds?
Anybody can lower his C - section rate if he is he content to
let babies die.
Your loss may be the first loss you know about, but there are dozens of ways in which and reasons
why babies die.
So it's not surprising that we are often contacted by parents
whose baby died many years ago, and who now want to talk about what happened and how they feel.
I think homebirth «midwives» should look deep into their own souls and ask themselves if they have any right to practice when so
many babies die at their hands.
They encourage women to risk the deaths of themselves and their babies and as a result, women and
babies die preventable deaths.
This also ignores the fact that
MORE babies die at home than in the hospital.
When my
first baby died, I was obsessed with getting pregnant as quickly as possible.