I know two women whose babies
died at home birth, one of a breech.
To the mother whose baby
died at home birth.
A baby is 3 to 6 times more likely to
die at a home birth than in a hospital.
And yes, babies and mothers have
died at home births because unforseen complications arose.
(early neonatal death means the baby was born alive but died sometime in the first seven days), a baby is three times more likely to
die at a home birth in the USA with a mortality rate of 1.71 / 1000 versus only 0.64 / 1000 babies dying in the Netherlands.
Not exact matches
After experiencing years of abuse from family members and friends, Winfrey ran away from
home and bore a child
at age 14 who
died shortly after
birth.
The inquest heard Tate Spencer - Koch had a partial water
birth at her parents»
home in 2007 but
died from complications after getting stuck during the delivery.
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.
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.
Not even that «these twins may
die if you
birth at home,» but «one of your twins will almost definitely
die or be gravely injured if you
birth at home.»
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!
What you may not know is Janet's baby suffered cardiac arrest during her cherished unassisted water
birth and
died on March 27th
at her
home in Australia.
The probability of a baby
dying from a
home birth is approximately twice the probability of a child
dying in a car accident
at any point from
birth to age 25, and ten times as high as the risk of
dying in a car accident between
birth and age 10.
The 0.5 % death rate of a higher - risk
home birth is the same as the probability of a child
dying between the ages of 1 and 18 from any cause
at all.
Meaning, for every 10,000
births of low risk women, there are 6 - 7 babies that
die in the USA during planned, midwife - attended
home births that would have lived if the mothers were giving
birth at home in the Netherlands.
After three successful unassisted
births and before the fourth, Shanley had a son with a rare heart problem who
died just hours after being born
at home.
The sad thing is that just as many women and babies
die in the hospital as do
at birth centers and during
home births.
Krauthammer relies on one case in which a child
died being delivered
at home to back his assertion that
home births are unsafe.
They have also
died giving
birth at home for thousands of years.
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.
And then people are absolutely free to think and say that that is a stupid and selfish risk to take, and others are free to think that she is a
birth hero, and that 1 out of every 500 babies
dying a needless death is a small price to pay for the chance to
birth at home.
And all the people who were never born because the person who WOULD have been their ancestor
DIED while giving
birth at home, well, they aren't here to point that out to you!
A baby born
at home with a CPM is 2.4 times more likely to
die than baby born with a CNM in a
birth center.
This means for every 10,000 babies born to low risk moms
at home with a CPM, 7 babies will
die that would have lived had the mother been under the care of a CNM
at a
birth center.
This means for every 10,000 babies born
at home with a CPM, 12 babies will
die that would have lived had the mother been under the care of a CNM
at a
birth center.
Discourse generated in this study; «midwives act irresponsibly when attending a women birthing
at home», «
home birth is a return to times past where mothers and babies
died in vast numbers».
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.
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.