Not exact matches
And most of all, because there are NO guarantees, one way or the other - the numbers on
safety and
well being with
home births are
better than those in the hospital.
I wonder as
well what else could be done to work with traditional
birth assistants to help increase
safety in
home births so that women who do choose to have their baby at
home have the necessary support too.
As it has been shown that conducting a randomised controlled trial is not possible, the
best evidence about the
safety of
home birth can only come from
good quality, routine registrations such as the one we used in our study.
The
safety of
home birth for healthy, low - risk women, when attended by skilled midwives and in a system that facilitates collaboration and timely transfer of care, is
well supported by the evidence.
The
safety of
home birth is
well documented, but childbirth by its nature is a threshold passage for the mom, and the baby.
Planned
home births for low risk women in high resource countries where midwifery is
well integrated into the healthcare system are associated with similar
safety to low risk hospital
births
But what it brings up for me that I think is really
good about the coverage is that it brings out a lot of issues that need to be addressed around
birth and choices and training of providers and
safety of
home birth and the
safety of hospital
birth.
MANA had provided me with the 24
best studies to prove the
safety of
home birth.
Johnson & Daviss: Letter C under section III of the list of studies that the Midwives Alliance of North America deems the very
best in proving
home birth safety is titled, «Outcomes of planned
home birth with certified professional midwives.»
The authors concluded that perinatal
safety of
home births may be improved substantially by
better adherence to risk assessment, timely transfer to hospital when needed, and closer fetal surveillance.
Like I said in my email Leigh, I totally agree with you on the
safety of US
home birth — but I think that something is missing from this discussion, and that's the psychological
safety of birthing women as
well as their and their babies physical
safety.
Yet, when I analyzed all of the studies that the Midwives» Alliance of North America (MANA) says comprise the
best evidence for the
safety of
home birth, I found that every study that looked at nonhospital
birth in the United States (and many of the studies that looked at other countries, as
well) reported much higher death rates for babies when compared to similar hospital
births.