Sentences with phrase «deaths at homebirth»

The first time in the ground, the second time by erasing the existence of the baby so no one will find out the truth about the deaths at homebirth.

Responding to a commentor who pointed out the study actually UNDERCOUNTED homebirth deaths because some deaths at homebirth happened during or after transfer and were included in the hospital group, she offers this bit of obfuscation:

In a later post, there is a link to de Jong admitting that there were 2 deaths at homebirth (one of which was potentially preventable) and 3 deaths in the hospital group, two of which were unrelated to the birth at all.

How many babies have to die preventable deaths at homebirth before homebirth advocates acknowledge the obvious?

There really shouldn't be any deaths at homebirth if candidates are being selected correctly and if transfers are occurring appropriately and in a timely fashion.

In Missouri, the risk of intrapartum death at homebirth is nearly 20 times higher than hospital birth.

There was only 1 maternal death at homebirth, but there were only 750 homebirths.

She has been jailed for allegedly presiding over an intrapartum death at homebirth... In addition, she was arrested last month for prostitution.

2012 Presided over a neonatal death at homebirth of a VBA3C mother in Utah, administered Cytotec to induce or augment labor, delivered the baby using a vacuum extractor; massive postpartum hemorrhage.

Homebirth advocates are fond of claiming that the increased risk of neonatal death at homebirth is trivial, but CDC statistics indicate that it is in the range of 200 %.

Serge Bielanko wrote Don't Be Afraid, It's Just a Home Birth, and he apparently thinks its simply hilarious that people are warning him about the increased rate of death at homebirth.

Death at homebirth isn't rare; it is all too common.

True to form, the Midwives Alliance of North America continues its deceptions about the risk of death at homebirth.

Not exact matches

Summary: The deaths caused by rare acute condition at planned attended low risk homebirth that might have had a better outcome in hospital are outweighed by the deaths and morbidity due to common acute conditions caused by hospital interventions.

It happens so rarely that the rate of death from AFE (1/1, 000,000) and cord prolapse (1/100, 000) at homebirth is a miniscule fraction of the maternal mortality (1/5, 000) and perinatal mortality (1.7 / 1000) from elective cesarean surgery in hospital (34).

The regulars here are pretty up on these things and the most recent studies of homebirth have as far as I know have universally shown the homebirth has at least 3x the perinatal death rate of similar risk hospital birth.

Dr. Tuteur writes about more than 10 homebirth deaths a year, many of which take place at or are called at the hospital, the majority of which meet those criteria for being included in the analysis.

Just because YOU and YOUR babies were fine doesn't negate the mountain of data (including MANA's own study) that clearly indicates the dangers of homebirth and the hideously higher death rate at the hands of homebirth midwives.

You've got a hospital staff reeling from a death, trained to comfort the grieving parents, trying to say SOMETHING and «you killed your baby by not being here» is not exactly bedside manner, so they don't say that, they say «there's nothing we could have done» (at this point), and the people go away thinking «there was nothing they could have done, either, homebirth wasn't the culprit.»

Leaving aside for the moment that this is the same group who crowed over a 20 % increase in homebirths from from 0.56 % to 0.67 % of US births, does dismissing the absolute number of death as low fully convey what is at stake in the decision to attempt homebirth?

We want to know how the death rate at homebirth compares with the death rate at all hospital births, not the death rate at tertiary facilities.

The death rate at CNM attended homebirth is double the death rate of CNM attended hospital birth.

The key point for us is that first, it's the US homebirth we generally discuss here and second, it's impossible for a midwife to ensure a safe birth when after the mother's DEATH, a trained midwife feels that she, the midwife, is the victim, because the bereaved husband somehow forgot that his wife had a «really lovely spontaneous birth at home» and listened to her, the midwife, when she told him over the phone that transfer wasn't necessary because her, the midwife's husband, would not have listened to the midwife but to his wife when she told him, «I want to go to the hospital.»

Other homebirth advocates emphasize that the absolute risk of death is low (true) or that only women having first babies are at risk for homebirth death (false).

In fact, the authors go so far as to deliberately obfuscate the increased neonatal death rate at homebirth.

Simply put, the death rate was not zero and until the difference (if any) between maternal deaths at home and in the hospital is determined, we can not draw any conclusions about the safety of homebirth for Dutch mothers.

Shouldn't self - proclaimed «midwives» Mary Barhite and Jacqueline Proffit look even a tiny bit remorseful or at least sad in the wake of presiding over yet another homebirth death in the state of North Carolina?

Evidently, they are taking a page out of the playbook of the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), the organization that represents homebirth midwives, who conducted a publicly announced collection of safety data from 24,000 planned homebirths and now are hiding how many deaths occurred at the hands of homebirth midwives.

They compared the death rate at homebirth with the death rate in tertiary [high risk] facilities, but that's not what we want to know.

We don't know exactly how many deaths homebirth transfers added to the «doctor» category, but anecdotally at least, it's going to be more than 1 and probably more than 10.

How many babies have to die before the Midwives Alliance of North America is forced to publicly acknowledge that they KNOW that homebirth at the hands of a CPM dramatically increases the rate of perinatal death?

Homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage even when, at the start of labor, breech, twins, VBAC.

In other words, any way you choose to look at it, no matter how carefully you slice and dice the data, there is simply no getting around the fact that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage.

As one homebirth mother, who was a veteran homebirther and prominent in the homebirth community, said at an inquest into the death of her baby last year, «If you are the «one», it's forever.

It's not a tradeoff - the risk of both death and serious injury are higher at homebirth.

I'm grieved to point out a new and growing genre of mommy blogs: blogs set up specifically to recount the death or serious injury of babies at homebirth and the aftermath for their devastated mothers and families.

They're raising money to «free» an uncredentialed, unlicensed «midwife» who is charged with misrepresenting her qualifications to parents, presiding over a homebirth death, and who was arrested for prostitution, without making an attempt at, indeed without even calling for an investigation of any kind.

It's hardly surprising therefore that death rates at the hands of homebirth midwives are appalling.

What hardly ever gets pointed out, in the «babies die in hospitals» [faux] argument is that, while, yes, babies do die in hospitals, it is after everything possible has been done to save them, whereas in homebirth babies are put at the utmost risk of death by not having proper staff / equipment / conditions, etc. to save them.

The death rate is horrific, even AFTER Rooks inappropriately eliminated the death of a baby at homebirth who had congenital anomalies.

Yet another baby has been placed at risk of significant brain damage and possible death because the clueless homebirth midwives didn't understand how to diagnose fetal distress.

Will MANA, the organization that represents homebirth midwives, review its requirements in light of the unacceptably high rate of death and injury at homebirth?

Babies die all the time at homebirth, and the biggest risk factors lead to the greatest number of deaths.

Most studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study on place of birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.

The overall all rate of perinatal death at planned homebirth with a LICENSED midwife was 800 % higher than comparable risk hospital deaths.

I agree that the database almost certainly under - counts the number of deaths at CPM attended homebirth.

To admit that homebirth led to the preventable death of the baby is to admit that they weren't educated at all; that rather than being special for choosing homebirth, they've marked themselves as gullible and selfish.

At that point, the fallback strategy is to insist that these homebirth deaths don't count.

National mortality statistics for homebirth midwives are dismal and individual states like Colorado have truly appalling death rates at homebirth.

And then let's look at the injuries and deaths that occured in homebirth with CPMs and the like... how many would have been prevented in a hospital setting?