But for the sliver of the population seeking to give
birth outside a hospital setting, a recent crackdown by the state on midwives who are not nurses may further narrow their options.
These reconstructed «natural facts,» while equally socially embedded relative to more medicalized perspectives, are seen by midwives as essential components of the foundation needed for «
trusting birth outside the hospital» once labor begins.
Women with Low - Risk Pregnancies Can Safely Give
Birth outside Hospitals with Midwives A new study in England shows little difference in complications among the babies of women with low - risk pregnancies who delivered in hospitals versus those who gave birth with midwives at home or in birthing centers.
The new numbers came after a period in
which births outside the hospital, which can include births at a birthing center or in a doctor's office, as well as home births, had been decreasing since 1990.
A woman needs to feel a deep sense of confidence in herself as a birthing woman to choose to give
birth outside a hospital because she can be bombarded with people asking «what if» questions challenging her decision.
I am a home birth midwife who practices according to the Midwives Model of Care and is trained to assist healthy pregnant women who choose to
give birth outside the hospital.
Since even apparently uncomplicated births in low risk women can naturally end in death for babies and mothers,
birth outside the hospital is essentially a gamble.
A quarter of women who planned hospital births had C - sections that can add serious complications to future pregnancies — five times the rate of C - section among those who planned to give
birth outside the hospital.