In this study, conducted in British Columbia, Canada,
home birth mothers experienced fewer interventions, lower morbidity (sickness or injury), and lower neonatal [1] morbidity and mortality.
Not exact matches
After the traumatic hospital
births, which were physically damaging to my
mother and life risking to my brothers, and after the cold way the hospitals handled her miscarriages, it was a beautiful relief for her to
experience such an easy
birth at
home without complication, with less pain and more beauty for
mother and child, and for their family, too.
Birthing From Within ® was conceived and developed by Pam England, MA, CNM, a
home birth midwife and
mother who, inspired by her own
birth experiences, developed this innovative, holistic approach to childbirth and postpartum preparation.
A week or so post-
birth I'll come to your
home for a casual postpartum visit to discuss your
birth experience and see if I may help in connecting you with any additional resources to help you in your breastfeeding and postpartum
mothering journey.
Objective: To collect data from a cohort of women requesting a
home birth and examine the
experience and outcome of pregnancy, the indications for hospital transfer, and the attitudes of
mothers, midwives, and general practitioners.
We have the
mother of baby - bunching
experiences... We brought
home our adopted (from Guatemala) daughter at 10 months old in March of 2008 & I just gave
birth to her brother a month ago.
Then I started speaking to loads of other
mothers, who had
home births, and listened carefully to each of their stories and
experiences.
A trained and
experienced professional who provides non-medical
home support to a new
mother after the
birth
While this is true - the
experience and
mother's feelings do come in into helping to
birth better, but I think the biggest reason why women are birthing at
home is not because of the candles, and comfort of their
homes.
Preparing for
home births can help ensure a safer
experience for
mothers and babies.
With careful screening, preparation and execution, a
home birth can be an amazing
experience for an expecting
mother.
For me, the triggers were a traumatic
birth experience, a feeling of complete isolation and lack of support when we got
home again, and that total loss of identity that can come with giving up a career and becoming a
mother.
From personal
experience and hearing the stories of many
mothers in my city who have done either or in some cases both hospital
birth and
home birth it seems to me that the majority, if not all, said they preferred the
home birth.
SHELLEY RAHIM: The common connection between any kinds of
birth, whether it is
home birth, un-medicated hospital, medicated hospital
birth or a cesarean
birth is what the
mother tells herself about herself after she comes out of this
experience.
And I think the aim should be to make the birthing
experience the safest for
mother and baby in the short and long run, in all circumstances (
home births included).
The postpartum meeting offers a chance for the
mother to discuss the
birth and her
experience, ask questions, as well as discuss how things are going at
home with the new baby.
Schwarzschild, for example, is one the most
experienced home -
birth midwives in the city and has her pick of expectant
mothers.
As a
home oriented service we support a
mother» s personal choices while offering guidance and help with a perspective of nineteen years of
experience in
home birth.
I support new
mothers struggling with depression, crying baby, and overwhelm — in comfort of her own
home — to process her
experience of
birth so she can create a softer connection with her newborn.
Both as a birthing
mother and as a doula, I have
experience in hospital and at
home birth.
Sophia
experienced the separation from her
birth mother as a newborn and then the loss of her foster family, and all that was familiar to her, again at age 7.5 months when she came
home to our family.
Herself a
mother of five, all born at
home, she believes that
birth can be a positive and deeply satisfying
experience.
Midwives, both
home and hospital, have MUCH more
experience with «normal» labor and
birth, and understand the value of it for the health of baby and
mother.
After a first degree in music and psychology, she gained an MPhil from Keele in 1998, researching into
Mothers»
Experience of
Birth at
Home and in Hospital.
On the other hand,
home births were much less likely to involve cesarean sections, had fewer interventions, and the
mothers experienced fewer lacerations.
Thinking of modern times, rather than my
mother's and grandmother's generation in which
home births were the norm, I have had a few friends and relatives who gave
birth either at
home or in a birthing center and all reported a positive
experience.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is encouraging expectant
mothers experiencing a straight - forward pregnancy to choose a
home or midwife - led centre
birth, but could be placing women and their babies at risk warns Moore Blatch.
Birth mothers are willing to experience the emotional loss of their child in exchange for the peaceful feeling of knowing their birth child is treasured in their adoptive
Birth mothers are willing to
experience the emotional loss of their child in exchange for the peaceful feeling of knowing their
birth child is treasured in their adoptive
birth child is treasured in their adoptive
home.
Home visitors can greatly enrich a
mother's
experience throughout her pregnancy,
birth and first days of a new family's life together.
Parents of youth with internalizing and externalizing behaviors, substance use and abuse, delinquency, police arrests, out - of -
home placements, and deviant peer association; parents who are depressed, highly stressed, living in poverty or high - crime neighborhoods, Spanish - speaking immigrants, parents returning from wars (e.g., Iraq / Afghanistan) who may be
experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
mothers living in shelters or supportive housing because of homelessness or domestic violence,
birth parents whose children are in care because of abuse / neglect, and family with transitions such as divorce, single parenting, and step - families