Despite the publication of statements and commentaries querying the reliability of the findings, [2 - 6] this faulty study now forms the evidentiary basis for an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Committee Opinion, [7] meaning that its results are being presented to expectant parents as the state - of - the - art in home
birth safety research.
Not exact matches
Margaret Tew, a statistician, pointed out as early as 1977 (18) that hospital
birth was never
researched for
safety before it was instituted.
Current
research includes: co-leading organisational case studies in Birthplace in England, a national study of
birth outcomes in home, midwife led, and obstetric led units; investigating the relationship between measures of
safety climate and health care quality in A and E and intrapartum care; and conducting nested process evaluations of two trials of obesity in pregnancy behavioural interventions.
The resulting 9 Common Ground Statements describe a maternity care environment that respects a woman's autonomy, reduces health disparities, supports cross-professional collaboration and communication, promotes physiologic
birth, expands
research that includes the woman in defining the elements of «
safety», and accurately assesses the effects of
birth place on outcomes and experience.
This does lean towards bias; however, so does the assumption that homebirth
safety needs to be proven through empirical
research but hospital
birth is blindly accepted as safe because this
birth environment has become the societal norm.
This
research should add confidence to the
safety of home
birth in a context such as Canada's in which registered midwives have a baccalaureate degree or equivalent and are an integral part of the health care system.
More
research is warranted into the
safety of alternative places of
birth within Australia.
More
research is warranted into the
safety and costs of alternative places of
birth within Australia.
Plenty of respected
research supports the
safety of planned home
birth (most recent large prospective trial published in the British Medical Journal), but for women who need to deliver in a hospital due to a complication, the midwife stays by your side and adopts a doula role.
In today's post, we discuss the types of
research that has been done to examine the
safety of water
birth.
Though some obstetricians tout the
safety of cesareans and their value in preventing perineal damage, a systematic review of current
research shows that vaginal
birth is safer for mother and baby than a cesarean — unless there's a clear, compelling health reason for having a cesarean.
Cathy Warwick, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, said the
research was proof of the
safety and benefits of home
birth for some women, particularly those who have given
birth before, and showed that they could save the NHS money.
You should allocate as much time as possible to
researching on the best sleep surface for your infant long before you give
birth because it is one of the main things that determine their
safety.
They stated that more
research is needed to ascertain the
safety of alternative places of
birth within Australia.
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The
safety of home
birth is a controversial topic and this episode includes a lot of
research on whether home
birth is safe and what some of the risks are.
The idea for the book was born out of her own experience, which led her to
research the
safety of continuing to breastfeed a child while pregnant and carrying on nursing two after the
birth.
Research on the comparative
safety of different
birth settings tends to exclude «high - risk» pregnancy; conventional wisdom states that women with «high - risk» pregnancies should plan a hospital
birth because they are at higher risk of negative pregnancy outcomes.
International
research on
safety of homebirths [1]: «In 2014, a comprehensive review in the Journal of Medical Ethics of 12 previously published studies encompassing 500,000 planned home
births in low - risk women found that perinatal mortality rates for home
births were triple that of hospital
births.
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada encourages
research into the
safety of all
birth settings.
There is a lot of
research that supports the
safety of home
birth.
Here is a full article about Giving
birth in water where you can find the
research about water
births, benefits and risks, supplies needed if you have water
birth at home,
safety tips and common questions.
Preference to hospital
birth for
safety reasons is not found in this book, although
research supporting homebirth is also absent and while many of Penny's suggestions were implemented into this book (far beyond her expectations), the third chapter recommends the gynecologist as the «ideal» practitioner so women can maintain continuity from well woman care to
birth attendant.
Citizens for Midwifery has developed an article to help families understand what the
research does - and doesn't - tell us about home
birth safety and health benefits for women and their infants.
That said, no one I know in academic
birth research (and there are many of us who support home
birth) would ever cite that Cochrane review as evidence of home
birth's
safety.
The book examines: - why the
research shows so little benefit for physiologic care and so little harm from medical - model management - what's behind the cesarean epidemic - what the
research establishes as optimal care for initiating labor, facilitating labor progress, guarding maternal and fetal
safety, birthing the baby, and promoting
safety for mother and baby after the
birth - the true, quantified risks of primary cesarean surgery, planned VBAC versus elective repeat cesarean, instrumental vaginal delivery, and regional analgesia - how the organization of the maternity care system adversely impacts care outcomes
The Midwives Alliance Division of
Research continues to work hard to demonstrate the
safety of home
birth and the realities of evidence based care.
This study was designed to address the need for a standardised system for evaluating
research on the
safety of
birth place.
Here is a full article about Giving
birth in water where you can find the
research about water
births, benefits and risks, supplies needed if you have water
birth at home,
safety tips and common questions.
A leading water
birth advocate, Dr. Michel Odent, has conducted many
research studies to document its
safety.
I find it curious and annoying that some obstetricians, and obstetrical societies, continue to insist that home
birth is unsafe despite the availability of high quality
research that supports its
safety and efficacy, as described here.
The uptick in home
births along with
research showing the
safety and benefits of home
birth have lit a fire under researchers and medical professionals alike.
A recent scientific review issued by the European Food
Safety Authority (EFSA) of more than 20 separate
research studies found that aspartame, one of the most common artificial sweeteners, causes a range of illnesses including
birth defects and cancer.
In 1923, Sanger opened the
Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan to provide birth control devices to women and to collect statistics about the safety and long - term effectiveness of birth con
Birth Control Clinical
Research Bureau in Manhattan to provide
birth control devices to women and to collect statistics about the safety and long - term effectiveness of birth con
birth control devices to women and to collect statistics about the
safety and long - term effectiveness of
birth con
birth control.