Thorough research, balanced discussion, and dozens of
home birth stories from real men all over the world make this book essential reading for all fathers - to - be and the professionals who support them.
While I was pregnant I came across several
home birth stories from Russia, where NCB movement is becoming fashionable.
Not exact matches
A response
from the
home birth community: Many of us are instead using this form to a) tell our horrible hospital
stories, b) tell our great
home birth stories, or c) just plain let Dr. Phil and his staff how bad we think this show concept is.
I'm not sure how I went
from loving A
Birth Story to wanting a home b
Birth Story to wanting a
home birthbirth.
We share
stories, discuss our views, and interview experts about topics ranging
from baby led weaning, elimination communication, sleep,
home birth, postpartum recovery, breastfeeding struggles, babywearing, parenting styles, diastasis recti, pelvic floor health, our favorite products, and of course, our passion for real food.
Since I was completely in the blue about how
home births worked, nor had I heard any success
stories from friends / family, I want to provide this option for those who know / trust me.
I think Dr Amy's anger comes
from reading
story after
story about preventable deaths, and preventable permanent injury to infants, month after month, and having the
home -
birth advocates here in the USA simply ignore the very real risks of homebirth with an uneducated «midwife».
Of course there was great deal of «well, if you had the baby at
home none of this would have happened»
from many friends an acquaintances... and complete strangers who had heard my
story second hand as a cautionary tale about hospital
birth.
My Post Pregnancy Tummy Recovery
Story I had a natural
birth, and I started wearing the Corset girdle as soon as I got
home from the hospital.
Maybe it was a mistake that your wife made to make those postings public, but something good has come out
from it because these
stories, even though it's painful to be written about, these
stories need to be told, because the midwives and
home birth community are not talking about these risks.
And just to help you get the picture, based on YOUR info (stolen bits and pieces of
stories from grieving families) that means that circ is actually 16 TIMES more dangerous for a baby than
HOME BIRTH.
I ended up having a c - section, a
birth so very far off
from my planned
home birth, due to a footling breech baby, and Crystal helped me rationalize and be OK with how my
birth story ended.
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.
There are also several
stories of positive
birth in a variety of circumstances, including hospital, twins, induction, «high risk» and more, plus thoughts and advice
from professionals on everything
from home birth safety to your rights in the
birth room.
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.
These
stories are certainly tragic, and while I didn't read the full
stories from the blog you mentioned (too sad; can't stomach), it does sound like there is a lot of irresponsible stuff going on in the
home birth world.
We should have known that things would have been so over the top ridiculous,
from a
home birth transfer, losing water, no air conditioning, tongue tie, cleft palate, jaundice, hypoplasia to postpartum depression because come on, you can't name your baby «
Story» and not expect one to accompany her.
In September, Bryn (a mother of two) followed a personal passion and launched The
Birth Hour podcast which features women sharing their birth stories of all types — from home waterbirths to unexpected cesarean sect
Birth Hour podcast which features women sharing their
birth stories of all types — from home waterbirths to unexpected cesarean sect
birth stories of all types —
from home waterbirths to unexpected cesarean sections.
They're worth reading, especially because you'll see when you do that as of July 10, 2012, the blog had not been updated in more than six months and that some problems in these heart - wrenching
stories actually arose
from hospital, not
home birth, mistakes.
Also, if any of you listeners have any followup questions, comments, things you want us to talk about and expand upon
from any previous episodes:
home birth stories, interviews with experts or any of our solo chats, please please please reach out so we can address it on the show!
What I learn
from home birth stories like this is that you will never know what to expect....
Christina shares her beautiful
home birth and hospital
birth stories,
from behind the lens, and she shares why moms and families should highly consider hiring a photographer for their homebirth.
In this show we interview tons of moms and families on their
home birth stories, and so we thought we'd switch things up a bit for Mother's Day and hear about how each of us came into the world
from the women who ushered us earth side.
The
story of her giving
birth surrounded by farm animals, in the cold, after being excluded
from homes and still being so thankful / blessed!
In a compelling personal narrative that follows his farm animals
from birth to death, journalist Lovenheim brings
home the
story of the milk and the beef we eat, and he does it by honoring the cattle and the people whose labor and lives feed a nation and a world.
The Lost Daughters share
stories from adoptees and
birth parents in an effort to round - out the adoption conversations that occur around the web and in every
home.
It follows the
story of Katie, a fictional child who is removed
from her
birth home after years of neglect and an incident or two of physical violence.