Birth Story — Patricia birthed
her breech baby in hospital after having planned a homebirth.
Not exact matches
Doctors and
hospitals must start allowing VBACs, and return to delivering
breech babies,
in order to lower the ever rising c - section rate.
Well, I have heard a couple of accounts of
hospital births where it was discovered once the woman was already
in labor that her
baby was
breech.
The first one
in the
hospital with an epidural (I had «a back labor») and the second one at home — a
breech baby.
In 2002, when my first
baby was still
breech at 34 weeks, my obstetrician flat - out refused to attempt a vaginal delivery as did every single other doctor at the military base where we lived (I was required to deliver at the base
hospital or else pay for the entire cost out - of - pocket, which we could not afford).
My second
baby had been
breech as well, only we hadn't found out until I was at the
hospital in labor.
Yes the home group will contain some higher risk moms (some VBAC, some
breech, some GDM) but it won't contain the full spectrum of high risk that the
hospital gets: Women with clotting disorders on heparin, maternal heart disease, moms addicted to crack, moms with HIV, 12 and 13 year olds, women who walk
in off the streets
in labor with no prenatal care, women with sickle cell and cystic fibrosis and type 1 diabetes,
babies with severe anomalies.
If you live
in a rural area this will be challenging compared to living near a city
hospital where they have 24 - hour,
in - house staff able to conduct a cesarean before you give birth to a
breech baby.
After the midwife and the family discuss the possible risks and benefits of delivering a
breech baby at home, the family elects to deliver via a cesarean
in the
hospital.
That's 28 times higher than the death rate of
breech babies born
in the
hospital.
Instead of a risk of death of less than 1
in 1000 (as
breech babies have
in the
hospital),
breech babies at home have a risk of death of more than 1
in 50.
Does nine times higher death rate of
breech babies in homebirth according to MANA stats than the death rate of
breech births
in hospitals count as a proven negative outcome or not?
Here's the reality: if a mother has a
baby in a
breech position, she is not allowed to give birth
in an accredited birth center, nor is it likely that she could even have CNM or OB care
in the
hospital for a vaginal delivery.
Even though my natural childbirth plans didn't work out (
breech baby), my hubby helped me relax with massage, he advocated for our
baby while
in the
hospital and knew what to do when first - time breastfeeding troubles arose (call our Bradley instructor who came running: — RRB -.
Again, the ultrasound machine would continue to offer clients one more step for flipping their
breech baby before facing the decision to birth their
baby breech at home, or face a planned cesarean section
in the
hospital, but it would also allow the Nurse Midwife to offer GYN ultrasounds, fetal dating, fetal anatomy scans and biophysical profiles for triage and / or postdate pregnancies.
I was still hopeful that she would turn, but I started to get a little worried by this point since the nurse midwives couldn't deliver
breech babies and the only option
in that
hospital was to attempt an External Cephalic Version (ECV) or do a c - section.
I would definitely choose home birth again, but I also hope that eventually the medical mindset will change to allow for
breech birth
in hospitals, as I know many women who have had multiple c - sections because a first
baby was
breech and v - bac is not encouraged where they live.
Although she was perfectly willing to give birth
in the
hospital, she only wanted to avoid surgery, but nobody was willing to deliver a
breech baby vaginally.