Women who gave birth at home attended by a midwife had fewer procedures during labour compared with women who
gave birth in hospital attended by a physician.
Not exact matches
I have always believed
in my gut that it is safer to have a CNM
attend a homebirth
in a low risk pregnancy than
give birth in a
hospital.
The coroner has concluded Midwives should not
attend HBs alone, the emergency services should be notified and
given prior warning when a HB occurs, and «that the distance of a home
birth from the local maternity
hospital should be factored
in whenever home deliveries are planned.»
Ironic but not unexpected
given the relative risk of neonatal death
in a CPM
attended homebirth versus a
hospital birth.
Lastly, women
giving birth in a
hospital have no control over the pediatrician that
attends to their baby immediately after
birth.
I know that I she
attends v - bac's and that many women come to her so that they can
give birth naturally
in the
hospital.
After working as a childbirth educator and
attending a couple hundred
births (as a doula — labor assistant)
in birth centers, homes and
hospitals, I've come to believe that the overwhelming majority of women intuitively gravitate to which location, type of support and «methodology» is best for themselves and their unborn babies to achieve a safe passage through the
giving birth / delivering experience.
Another friend of mine — an ER doc — considered a home
birth on the grounds that
hospitals are filthy, but when her OB friend changed her mind about
attending her she
gave birth in the
hospital after all and was glad she did.
In -
hospital Attended by MD / DO / CNM Gestation 37 weeks and up (it's hard to make this correspond, as MANAStats didn't
give gestation lengths, but only 2.5 % of their mothers «showed clinical signs» of preterm
birth) Singleton and twins (MANAStats didn't include any higher order multiples) Vaginal and c / s Death from < 1 hour to 28 days of life
I feel as though this simply makes the most sense, and what a number of homebirth advocates tend not to mention is that midwifery
in European countries and the UK is frequently controlled through
hospitals - you can request a midwife, but odds are you're
giving birth in the
hospital, with an
attending ob on call, and the midwife is sanctioned by 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.
In a new,
hospital - level analysis by health policy researcher Laura Attanasio at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Katy Kozhimannnil at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, they report that women who
gave birth at
hospitals that had a larger percentage of midwife -
attended births were less likely to have two specific medical interventions, cesarean delivery and episiotomy.