Not exact matches
Just because a
birth starts
at home doesn't
mean it has to finish there; if something goes wrong, or if the mom changes her mind, they transfer.
There is a risk involved with a
birth at home or
at the hospital, especially considering the access to such equipment often
means it is overused.
When I said it was reassuring, I didn't
mean it was: «All good, let's have everyone give
birth at home.»
I
mean after all, I'm assuming that's why you've chosen to give
birth at home in the first place — to have a safe, peaceful space.
But I am thankful too, I had planned a water
birth at home, which
means that c - section might have saved my baby's life in more than one way.
after having my 2nd accidentally
at home (and by accident i
mean the whole labor took half an hour) i refused to give
birth to my 3rd in the hospital like i did w / my first.
Therefore, no one has to provide you with the
means of having a homebirth, but no one can stop you if you choose to give
birth at home.
Meaning, for every 10,000
births of low risk women, there are 6 - 7 babies that die in the USA during planned, midwife - attended
home births that would have lived if the mothers were giving
birth at home in the Netherlands.
Overall, and for multiparous women, planned
birth at home generated the greatest
mean net benefit with a 100 % probability of being the optimal setting across all thresholds of cost effectiveness when perinatal outcomes were considered.
Birth at home generated the greatest
mean net monetary benefit with a 100 % probability of being the optimal setting across all thresholds of cost effectiveness (varied between # 0 and # 100000 for the maternal outcomes of interest).
With regards to maternal outcomes in nulliparous and multiparous women, planned
birth at home generated the greatest
mean net benefit with a 100 % probability of being the optimal setting across all thresholds of cost effectiveness.
For low risk women without complicating conditions
at the start of care in labour, the
mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios associated with switches from planned
birth in obstetric unit to non-obstetric unit settings fell in the south west quadrant of the cost effectiveness plane (representing, on average, reduced costs and worse outcomes).25 The
mean incremental cost effectiveness ratios ranged from # 143382 (alongside midwifery units) to # 497595 (
home)(table 4 ⇓).
The
mean net monetary benefit associated with shifts to non-obstetric unit settings varied from # 2486 (# 2259 to # 2692)(alongside midwifery units) to # 4498 (# 4306 to # 4669)(
home)
at a # 20000 cost effectiveness threshold for avoiding a maternal morbidity (table 5 ⇓), and from # 3828 (# 3600 to # 4052)(alongside midwifery units) to # 6609 (# 6411 to # 6810)(
home)
at a # 20000 cost effectiveness threshold for achieving an additional normal
birth (table 6 ⇓).
Restriction of the analyses to low risk women without complicating conditions
at the start of care in labour narrowed the cost differences between planned places of
birth: total
mean costs were # 1511 for an obstetric unit, # 1426 for an alongside midwifery unit, # 1405 for a free standing midwifery unit, and for # 1027 the
home (table 2 ⇓).
Profiles of resource use, and their associated unit costs, for each planned place of
birth are reported in detail in appendices 1 and 2 on bmj.com.25 The total
mean costs per low risk woman planning
birth in the various settings
at the start of care in labour were # 1631 ($ 1950, $ 2603) for an obstetric unit, # 1461 ($ 1747, $ 2332) for an alongside midwifery unit, # 1435 ($ 1715, $ 2290) for a free standing midwifery unit, and # 1067 ($ 1274, $ 1701) for the
home (table 1 ⇓).
A
home birth would
mean laboring in the comfort of friendlier confines, with our Jacuzzi tub
at the ready whenever I needed relief.
(A planned
home birth also
means prenatal visits
at home from 37 weeks gestation on.)
And if that
means they pay their midwife or a
home birth at $ 5000 a pop.
So this time around, she's staying
at home once again, having a water
birth — which
means she'll deliver in a tub.
And this inflammatory use of a «relative percentage risk» rather than relative risk or absolute risk... for example, even if assuming the writer's awkward data is valid, you can to look
at infant living rates and see 99.6 % vs 98.4 %, which
means there's only a 1.2 % higher risk of bad outcome from
at -
home birth than hospital.
Just because your baby is born
at home does not
mean that you do not give them vitamin K (of course, it is always a choice, even in a hospital) but you can give your baby vitamin K if you have a
home birth - you just have your pediatrician give it to the baby.
Saying that women gave
birth at home vaginally most of the time
means very little.
(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.
Not matter what a midwife says, you call the shots during your delivery and can request to have your care transferred
at any time - whether that
means having a doctor come in an check on you, or in the event of a
home birth, be transferred to the hospital.
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.
When she had her first
home birth in Virginia in 1992, midwifery was still illegal in that state, and finding a midwife to deliver her baby
at home meant navigating a secretive underground market.
Smoking bans
mean fewer premature
births and fewer children taken to hospital for asthma, dispelling fears that bans make people smoke more
at home
This
means very fundamental things can happen: safety when you're walking
at night, which many indigenous people do, the ability to cook a healthy meal and to have light to see that, the ability to study or work
at home, to provide medical care if there's been an accident or if a woman is giving
birth.