Not because of her support of hospitals (I like them for sick people), not b / c she's bashing homebirthers as egoists, but b / c she hasn't read
any facts about homebirth before she put her opinion out there.
Not exact matches
It does highlight the
fact that
homebirth advocates are gullible and woefully uneducated
about human childbirth.
The last thing I'll comment with to end my rant
about your so - called ignorance is that while most births are perfectly safe and the child arrives completely alert and healthy (regardless of hospital or
homebirth) there is and always will be an element of life and death mixed into the equation — not all hospital births end in a live child, in
fact the percentages are
about equal in both hospital births and home births were natural vaginal births occur..
How
about we discuss the
fact that you're sitting here berating a mother for choosing
homebirth and ended up losing her child - WHic was NOT becAuse of the
homebirth.
My first major post on the issue was Research and special interests / the BMJ 2005 study in which I began an exploration of the
fact that Johnson and Daviss were not forthcoming
about their connections to the
homebirth industry.
I first wrote
about the
fact that the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA), the organization that represents
homebirth midwives, was hiding their own death rates back in January of 2007.
Can you reconcile your statement that your OB did not ask your wife to be discreet
about the
fact that he is comanaging a planned / considered
homebirth, with your statement that his «friendly» relationship with your CPM is hush - hush?
The CPM doesn't lie and is completely open
about the
fact that she is comanaging a
homebirth with the OB.
Lots of
facts about midwifery and
homebirth there (especially in MI), at that blog and the website that was designed to honor Magnus Snyder, a victim of mismanaged treatment by midwives at a birth center.
There are a number of regular contributors who came to fight with Dr T and ended up changing their views
about homebirth and medical care in pregnancy, because, whether or not you care for her tone, Dr T is all over the
facts.