You make it sound like babies don't
die at hospital births.......
And the babies that do
die at hospital birth?
Not exact matches
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.
We absolutely can NOT say that no baby
dies within 24 hours of
birth at a
hospital.
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.
My healthy baby
died because the midwife
at the
birth center did not pick up the falling heart rate and by the time I was blue - lighted to a
hospital, it was too late to resuscitate my boy.
Let's see, While Ina May was on her caravan to Tennessee she had a preterm
birth at 32 weeks and decided not to be in a
hospital and the baby
died.
But it wasn't safer than a
hospital birth,
at least not if the definition of safety is was your baby more
at risk of
dying because she was born
at home.
Since the chance that the mother would have
died in the
hospital is 0.021 %, the excess chance of death of the mother due to giving
birth at the party is about 0.034 %.
We have had several home
birth babies
die in our community over the past year, and looking
at the medical records it seems very unlikely that any of them would have
died had they been born in a
hospital.
Term pregnancy, transport
at first assessment because of decelerations, rupture of vasa previa before membranes ruptured, caesarean section,
died in
hospital two days after
birth
So your logic is that because there are fewer babies that
died last year
at Homebirth as compared to all the other 99 % of the population who chose
hospital birth, that Homebirth is safer?
Well, the vast majority of women give
birth in the
hospital, especially those
at the highest risk for complications, so of course there is a larger absolute number
dying in the
hospital.
The point is that, although yes, some women and babies still
die in the
hospital: First: That number is FAR LOWER than what it was when everyone gave
birth at home Second: OBs and medical professionnal are constantly trying to improve their methods and reduce the mortality rate even more.
The critical difference between the babies who
die as a result of a hospital birth and those who die as a result of a homebirth is that those who die at home DID N'T HAVE TO D
die as a result of a
hospital birth and those who
die as a result of a homebirth is that those who die at home DID N'T HAVE TO D
die as a result of a homebirth is that those who
die at home DID N'T HAVE TO D
die at home DID N'T HAVE TO
DIEDIE!
We know from the UK Birthplace study that, with fully trained MWs cooperating within the health system, tight risk - out and 40 % transfer rate, the babies of first - time mothers still
die at 3X the rate of similar
hospital births (quite aside from hypoxic and physical injury).
A baby is 3 to 6 times more likely to
die at a home
birth than in a
hospital.
Using the WONDER database for the year 2000 (the same year Johnson and Daviss collected their data), I plugged in the following variables: all babies who
died within 27 days of
birth, born in the
hospital, who were
at least 37 weeks gestation, with a known attendant type (type of doctor or midwife).
The sad thing is that just as many women and babies
die in the
hospital as do
at birth centers and during home
births.
Could you live with yourself if you choose to give
birth at a
hospital and the medical professionals Cause complications or simply aren't trained enough to prevent or solve them, and your baby
dies?
It is not «biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle class white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby
at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to
die than if they give
birth in the
hospital.
The authors fails to give any theoretical explanation for what complication of planned attended homebirth, that is not present
at planned
hospital birth could account for 1 in every 625 homebirths
dying during labor
at the hands of licensed doctors and midwives.
At 2.06 / 1000, it is a low enough number that I suspect it's not going to sway many (if any) homebirthers into
hospital birth... Because that translates to «99.8 % of the time my baby won't
die!»
American obstetrics is so profit orientated that it is willing to use misquoted newspaper articles as ammunition and pretend that 277 women don't
die in the US annually from cesarean surgery
at planned
hospital births.
In a 2002 study, Seattle pediatrician Jenny W. Pang, MD, MPH, and colleagues from the Washington School of Public Health reported that babies delivered
at home have nearly twice the risk of
dying shortly after
birth as those born in the
hospital.
He highlighted the plight of many mothers who gave
birth at the Komfo Anokye Teaching
Hospital only for their children to
die because of congestion.
And although there was only a small uptick in the maternal mortality
at the
hospital during that time (roughly 4 percent instead of 1 percent) the drop in the number of pregnant patients led caregivers to wonder if women were attempting home
births and perhaps
dying doing so, she says.
For babies born
at less than 27 weeks the effect was greater, with the odds of
dying almost halved when they were admitted to high volume neonatal units
at the
hospital of
birth compared to when they were admitted to low volume units (odds ratio 0.51).
Results demonstrated that for preterm babies born
at less than 33 weeks gestation, the odds of
dying in
hospital were 32 per cent less if they were admitted to high volume units
at the
hospital of
birth than if they were admitted to low volume units (odds ratio 0.68).
An MRI donated by Massachusetts Veterinary Referral
Hospital in Massachusetts, however, proved otherwise: He was born with an encephalocele, a condition rarely seen because animals usually
die at birth or are euthanized.
Named Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze
at birth, he spent most of his life in France, and
died of food poisoning in a Paris hotel, after checking himself out of a
hospital against the advice of his doctors.