The latest scandal in American midwife attended
birth out of hospital birth is occurring in Cary, NC.
Not exact matches
I show them the video's like Gentle
Birth Choices, and just say things like, «I'm not showing you this to try to push you to have an out of hospital birth, etc... but to show you what Normal natural birth looks like.&r
Birth Choices, and just say things like, «I'm not showing you this to try to push you to have an
out of hospital birth, etc... but to show you what Normal natural birth looks like.&r
birth, etc... but to show you what Normal natural
birth looks like.&r
birth looks like.»
I'm hoping I can finish «Natural
Hospital Birth» before the end
of the month, but I'm finding
out that if I have 5 minutes to sit down with my Intel Tablet that I am much more likely to try to catch up on emails than I am to read a book.
(To stay home or work, to seek support and information ahead
of time to breastfeed, to hire
out of hospital birth support, etc).
Maternal death only matters if it was an
out of hospital birth?
Also, only slightly more than half
of the states allow midwife assisted
birth out of the
hospital.
The only numbers
out there on UC include ALL unattended
births, such as precipitous
births, dumpster babies, and any
birth that occurred outside the
hospital and in the absence
of a professional
birth attendant.
We simply can not say that because this one
birth did not turn
out as well as we could hope for, that this in any way is a risk for anyone who wants to
birth outside
of a
hospital.
Education during pregnancy rarely has anything serious to do with breastfeeding, and since breastfeeding is perceived by most pre-parenthood women to be a natural, instinctive thing instead
of a learned behavior (on both mom & baby's part) if it doesn't go absolutely perfectly from the first moments they may feel something is wrong with THEM and clam up about it while quietly giving the baby the
hospital - offered bottle along with the bag
of formula samples they give
out «just in case» even if you explicitly tell them you're breastfeeding (which was my experience with my firstborn in 2004 and one
of the many highly informed reasons I chose to
birth my next two at home).
There are doulas in the area that sometimes offer discounts to
out -
of -
hospital birth parents.
Within a few years, Jacqueline assisted in managing a busy
birth center in Los Angeles, while teaching Childbirth Education classes to
out -
of -
hospital birth families.
Her opinion is common to those that have a voice about
out -
of -
hospital birth, and certainly those that seek to regulate its practice.
Out -
of -
Hospital Birth is not a good option for a person with preexisting disease or condition making pregnancy and birth high -
Birth is not a good option for a person with preexisting disease or condition making pregnancy and
birth high -
birth high - risk.
Who attends the
birth at an
out -
of -
hospital birth?
Within months
of my initial efforts, ACOG released their May 2007 statement on homebirth, acknowledging for the first time the safety
of birth in
out -
of -
hospital birth centers that meet standards
of relevant accreditation organizations.
Is
out -
of -
hospital birth really a safe option?
This class is tailored to this philosophy and will include everything you need to be prepared for your
out of hospital birth.
CNMs primarily work and have been trained in
hospitals and doctor's offices, however; some CNMs attend
out -
of -
hospital births (OOH).
Parents can come to The Center for midwifery prenatal,
birth and postpartum care, gynecological and pre-conception services, as well as childbirth education (for
hospital and
out -
of -
hospital birthing families), acupuncture, massage therapy, and yoga classes.
Readers are therefore unaware if samples in the intended home
birth group include those who were appropriately risked
out of home
birth during the antepartum period and later went on to have a high risk
hospital birth (Nove et al, 2012).
Standards outlined by the AAP for care
of the neonate are possible in an
out -
of -
hospital settings, including homebirth, although because homebirth practices do not have an accreditation body similar to the American Association
of Birth Centers there is no way to assure that any particular homebirth midwife or practice provides any certain standard
of care.
Midwives who attend
births out -
of -
hospital are the primary care provider for both the mother and the newborn.
This poses the question then if the Wax (2010) study is not specific to whether home
birth is safe in comparison to
hospital birth, but if outcomes correlate with the type
of midwife (level
of training) and acceptance
of out -
of -
hospital birth in the larger healthcare system?
Instead
of excluding the high risk
births from both groups, they include the homebirth outcomes
of premature
births at 34 - 37 weeks gestation (13 - 17) breech and twins (13,14) lethal anomalies incompatible with life (13,14) unattended homebirths (15,16) unplanned homebirths (15,16) or women who became risked
out of homebirth by becoming high risk at the end
of pregnancy, had
hospital births, but are included in the homebirth group.
Unfortunately, the authors did not reference this statement and the nurse - midwifery profession has grown to the point that it could potentially prove that the majority
of out -
of -
hospital births today are in fact, attended by certified nurse - midwives.
However, a few years later, my daughter was taking an EMT course at the same
hospital and was told by her mentor that there is a «local midwife that brings women in from
out of state to
birth here so she can sell their babies.»
The third article by Chang & Macones (2011), which the AAP uses to support their statement that neonatal mortality is increased in
out -
of -
hospital birth, was not as easily accessible.
Since 2
out of 3 babies who die at homebirth could have been saved in the
hospital, hiring an attendant who is trained in «normal
birth» is not going to save those babies.
The study looked at intended place
of birth to rule
out improperly assigning transferred patients to the
hospital group, and included only the lowest possible risk women.
Giving
birth in a
hospital with lots
of people walking in and
out and poking around in the woman will not have any positive effects.
I had the chance
of experiencing a
hospital birth and an
out of hospital birth.
With a mortality rate
of almost 5x higher than
hospital birth, this is not that far off the 6 - 8 times higher we saw for the Oregon data collection, even though the Oregon group almost surely had significantly fewer criteria for risking mothers
out (no criteria in some places, I'm sure) as well as lower qualifications for the midwives as CPMs and DEMs.
After a horror fight
of 2 weeks and the baby missing
out on the valuable breast milk, the
hospital acknowledged that the broken shoulder may have happened during the
birth.
Out of 66 separate citations in Vedam's Guide, only 3 show that homebirth is as safe as
hospital birth, 2 from Canada and 1 from the Netherlands.
This is because the vast majority
of stillbirths delivered in the
hospital are known to be antepartum and not intrapartum.29, 30, 31 On the other hand, in
out -
of -
hospital settings, most antepartum deaths in planned home
births would be transferred to the
hospital.
We paid completely
out of pocket for our elective HB (attempts) and I am fine with that, even though we were low income and qualified for Medicaid (which is what paid for the
hospital births after transfer).
Which may be why so many doctors intervene in the
birth — they have this false sense
of a woman's inability, or they consider every
birth high - risk, or just because they want to get
out of the
hospital in time for dinner (it happens).
Your baby is 3X more likely to die during
out of hospital birth.
Assuming that all women who die attempting
out of hospital birth are stupid, and that their husband's aren't in any way complicit, are we?
Since 2
out of 3 babies who die at homebirth could have been saved in the
hospital, trusting
birth is a bizarre and deadly strategy.
Evidence shows that
out of hospital birth is as safe as
hospital birth for LOW RISK women.
Though its records are also incomplete — reporting is voluntary; there are no reports for 2012 — they do point to the trauma that accompanies a planned
out -
of -
hospital birth where something goes wrong.
The
hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water
birth... I was the only one
of her patients who DID N'T intend to
birth in the water and she needed people birthing
out of the tub for a control group in a waterbirth infection study she was contributing to.
You baby is 18 X more likely to have an oxygen deprivation brain injury from an
out of hospital birth.
In truth, most
hospitals and
birth centers are not this bad, but there are still some
out there with very strict protocols about who can attend the
birth of your baby.
I think a lot
of these women are acting
out of fear
of the kind
of «
hospital birth experience» that hasn't been common in over a generation.
The company's statement that low - risk
births can devolve into emergencies «at
hospitals and at birthing centers» is stunning in its attempt to link
hospitals and
out -
of -
hospital birth centers as equal in some way.
We should also track women who plan a home
birth but wind up going to the
hospital for preterm labor or other emergency, or get «risked
out»
of home
birth before the time comes.
The Canadian study has an unusual way
of calculating perinatal mortality, and the Dutch study points
out that homebirth is as safe as
hospital birth in the Netherlands without addressing the fact that the homebirth population is much lower risk than the
hospital population.
I really do not care if a woman wants to squat
out a baby in the comfort
of her home — I care that she is doing so as an act
of informed free will and that she has been apprised
of the risks
of doing so (including the risks
of 3 times or more the mortality rate for her baby compared to
hospital birth and the risks
of planned vaginal delivery in general).