Sentences with phrase «experience than a hospital birth»

Many women find the home birth experience to be a much more tranquil and enjoyable experience than a hospital birth.

Not exact matches

I might not have had that horrible surgical experience, might have been able to hold my baby sooner than 8 hours after birth, would not have had my system pumped full of drugs I'm allergic to, and would have been able to nurse my baby, instead of the uneducated hospital staff shoving bottles at him.

Several studies have shown that planned homebirth attended by a qualified experienced caregiver is as safe or safer than hospital birth for low - risk women.

The only major difference between our birth experiences is that I pushed a lot longer at the hospital than you did!

However, MORE people (per capita) have devastating home birth experiences — ending with dead babies or babies with brain damage or permanent nerve damage — than hospital births.

She didn't remind me of her 20 + years of experience attending more than 1000 births, all the success she has had as a midwife, how conservative she is about choosing to transport to the hospital if needed, etc..

Jon Barrett, the chief of maternal - fetal medicine at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, says, «We should be working to make the environment of the hospital conducive to the home birth experience, rather than having more deliveries at home» (3).

And I would bet that the hospital horror stories are more to do with the womens «feelings» about her birth experience rather than the actual damaged / dead babies from the home birth horror stories.

The incidence of PPH for planned hospital births would be expected to be higher than the incidence for planned home births, because nulliparous women are more likely to experience PPH (see Table 2), and are also more likely to plan a hospital birth [28].

CNM midwives in the US are well trained and they tend to work in hospitals where they get enough experience to know better than to «trust birth» to any old homebirth yahoo who learned all she needed to know through apprenticing with another yahoo.

In addition, hospital - based providers have seen hundreds more births than your average CPM, and would have more education and practical experience in how to, for example, get a baby with shoulder dystocia out faster and with as little damage as possible.

Increasingly better observational studies suggest that planned hospital birth is not any safer than planned home birth assisted by an experienced midwife with collaborative medical back up, but may lead to more interventions and more complications.

Like you, my first birth experience in a hospital had more medical interventions than I would have liked.

When and if you hear them during your labour and birth experience you can gently remind the doctor or midwife that you understand these terms and that you will work with them to ensure that your birth will focus on what you want and how you and your baby are doing, rather than on hospital protocol.

It took more than two hours from the time Julia's client was admitted to the hospital for the doctor — who had had one previously negative experience with a home birth transport — to finally perform a C - section.

I'd gone through a hospital birth and was more than dissatisfied with that experience and I now knew many women who felt the same.

If you read the part you quoted in context, you will see that it is a call for more studies in light of the fact that «Increasingly better observational studies suggest that planned hospital birth is not any safer than planned home birth assisted by an experienced midwife with collaborative medical back up, but may lead to more interventions and more complications.»

Researchers examined outcome data for more than 6,500 midwife - attended water births in the United States and found that newborns born in water were no more likely to experience low Apgar scores, require transfer to the hospital after birth or be hospitalized in their first six weeks of life, than newborns who were not born in water.

«The results of this study were of particular interest because more than half of the pregnant women with migraine experienced some type of adverse birth outcome, suggesting that these pregnancies should be considered high risk,» said study author Matthew S. Robbins, M.D., director of inpatient services at Montefiore Headache Center, chief of neurology at Jack D. Weiler Hospital of Montefiore, and associate professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Not only is this unfortunate because of a lack of people to share experiences / plans with, but the result also is that more time is spent on preparing for a hospital birth than on the details of what it's like to be preparing for a planned home birth.

However, countries who have midwives as the leaders of maternity care and where home birth is considered among the norm experience better birth outcomes than countries where birth is facilitated in hospital settings with obstetricians.