Not exact matches
Because women may choose
different settings for
birth (hospital, free - standing
birth center, or
home), it is important to develop policies and procedures that will ensure a smooth, efficient transition of the woman
from one setting to another if the woman's clinical presentation requires a
different type of care.
I have 3 children, each child was very
different as a baby,
from hospital
births to
home birth, bottles to breastfeeding, dummies vs no dummies, disposable or reusable, baby - led to puree, I've done it all and I have no regrets, I did what was best for us at that stage.
First, registered midwives in Canada are quite
different, in several ways,
from the vast majority of
home birth midwives in the United States.
For example people who have
home births are always attended by a trained midwife (three years at university, Bachelors degree minimum, registration with the NMC,) which I gather is quite
different from the USA.
The rate of Apgar scores that were less than 7 at 5 minutes in the
home birth group, excluding stillbirths and babies with congenital anomalies, was 0.9 %, which was not
different from those in the comparison groups.
Every
birth is
different,
from water
births at
home to surprise emergency c - sections and everything in between.
Maybe you want to consider a
home birth or water
birth, or just a
different management of your labour
from your first experience.
I was keen even
from that point to have a
different birth experience for my next child and started to look into
home birth.
As Jennifer Block mentions in her response to the Daily Beast, we know
from more than half a dozen large - scale studies carried out in several
different countries, including England and the Netherlands (where almost a third of babies are born at
home), that planned
home birth with competent attendants is as safe as or safer than hospital
birth.
After being traumatically taken
from her abusive
birth mother and moved around to
different homes, she is finally in a place where she'll be safe and protected, with a family who will love and nurture her.