Sentences with phrase «birth at home seemed»

Choosing to give birth at home seemed to be the best option for me in regards to this.

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Jesus» birth at Bethlehem has been questioned, because it seems unlikely that in a census people would be required to travel to the home of their ancestors.

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I chose to give birth at home with midwives primarily because it seemed a lot simpler and less scary than my alternatives, so I in no way think I am more badass than any other mom because of how I birthed, or the fact that I am a biological mom at all.

I was lucky enough to have a home birth too, which, after being present for the birth of my sister at home when I was seven, seemed the normal, natural way for me.

The quote that you put in your comment from Dr Amy seems, to me at least, to me making two points: — Ima May Gaskin is responsible for more than one death during a home birth.

It seems pretty clear though that 12 weeks should just be the beginning of what's considered an acceptable amount of leave: a 2013 study published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law found that women who return to work earlier than six months after giving birth are more likely to develop PPD than those who were able to spend more time at home.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

For healthy nulliparous women with a low risk pregnancy, the risk of an adverse perinatal outcome seems to be higher for planned births at home, and the intrapartum transfer rate is high in all settings other than an obstetric unit

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.

And considering that the world is six billion strong, it seems that giving birth at home doesn't necessarily put you at a disadvantage.

And, since only about only 1 % of people give birth at home, for the overwhelming majority of us, the hospital seems like our only option.

If you like aspects of both home birth and hospital birth, but neither one seems quite right, why not look at what a birth center offers?

This seemed to me to be a curious and difficult way to study home birth, as it would require randomly selecting women to give birth at home.

Although hospital birth seems to be the most popular way to go, women have been giving birth at home for centuries, and it was only up until the last century or so that hospital birth became the norm.

Jennifer's argument here seems to be, according to the one anecdote she gave us (totally scientific, I know) that since doctors sometimes don't perform C - sections as fast as a midwife wants them to, all doctors are stupid and giving birth at home is safer.

I was awestruck by the strength it must take and just knew I wanted to say that I had done it too.Since my current midwife says it sounds like my problem pushing Audrey out was likely her big head (14») and my petite body / tight muscles, there seems to be no reason at all that this next labor and birth shouldn't be absolutely beautiful and at home where I am most comfortable.

But even in the short time since our home birth for baby May (almost 1 year - which seems like a super long time and yet the blink of an eye depending on how we look at it), we've realized that there are a bunch of really awesome resources out there that we either didn't know about at the time or have come out since then.