Sentences with phrase «home than hospital births»

A study reported in the BMJ found that women whose pregnancies were low - risk suffered far fewer severe negative outcomes from home than hospital births, especially after the first pregnancy.

Because women in Gelderland more often choose home than hospital birth, only women choosing hospital birth were recruited in the final four months of the study.

Not exact matches

As I continue on this journey, I find the more I learn about hospitals and standard procedures and doctors» timeframes, etc., the more I think women who elect to birth in a hospital are «brave» rather than the women who do so in their own homes.

Pretending that only midwife attended home births are acceptable isn't any better than pretending that only OB attended hospital births are acceptable.

I attended a home birth and it was so much nicer than any hospital birth I have ever seen or heard about.

I live in a state where I can not have a home birth unless it is unattended and I live more than an hour away from a hospital and 1 / 2hour from a town.

Although I'm sure it's possible, I think that for the most part, these «orgasmic births» are much more likely to occur in a birthing center or home environment than in the hospital.

A woman who had a still birth with a midwife present summed it up beautifully — home birth and UC babies must be more cherished than hospital birthed babies.

For a lot of people, home is a much less stressful environment than a doctor's office or a hospital, which can make a big difference during birth.

For now, there is not conclusive data that proves home births are any more dangerous than hospital births and carry the 2 - 3 fold neonatal mortality risk.

Birth centers provide an in - between choice for parents who would like to deliver outside of a hospital setting but with more help than they would be able to get at home.

And most of all, because there are NO guarantees, one way or the other - the numbers on safety and well being with home births are better than those in the hospital.

Low risk birth in the Netherlands at home with a midwife is more likely to result in a DEAD baby than high risk birth in a hospital with a doctor.

The «research» done to try and prove to people that home birth would be more dangerous than hospital birth is usually in favor of hospitals... Why?

Home births have a lower risk profile than hospital birth, meaning that mostly low - risk women CHOOSE home biHome births have a lower risk profile than hospital birth, meaning that mostly low - risk women CHOOSE home bihome birth.

«While most pregnant women who choose to have planned home births are at lower risk of complications due to careful screening, planned home births are associated with double to triple the risk of infant death than are planned hospital births.

A more recent study showed that low risk birth (home or hospital) with a Dutch midwife has a HIGHER perinatal mortality rate than high risk delivery with a Dutch obstetrician.

«Home births have a lower risk profile than hospital births, with fewer births to teenagers or unmarried women, and with fewer preterm, low birthweight, and multiple births» (source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db84.htm

Here is a BBC article that finds home birth less risky than a planned hospital birth.

Low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour with planned home birth had lower rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta than those with planned hospital birth.

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This new set of NICE guidelines concluded that healthy women with straightforward pregnancies are safer to give birth at home, or in a midwife - led birth centre, than at a hospital with the care of an obstetrician.

My son was born 7 lbs 1oz, he lost more than 10 % of his birth weight and they still released him from the hospital, I gave him a bath the next day by this point 4 days old, he didn't wake up, took him right to another hospital where the admitted him and put him on an IV and under the lights, they had me pumping every hour producing a max of 5 ml a time, finally they discovered I had insufficient milk glands, I was not allowed to have a bottle until I got home.

Studies there (sorry, don't have any references on hand, I'll try to get them posted later) show that home - birthing in this setting is just as safe for mother and child for a first birth, and safer for next births, than a hospital setting.

None of this surprises me, but I think he's more likely to find stories of mothers who went the home birth route as the result of a negative hospital birth than the other way around.

Home birth is also more economical than a hospital birth, usually costing well under $ 4,000 as compared to a hospital which can cost over $ 10,000.

It doesn't sound as though your situation was any different having a planned hospital birth than it would have been had you been planning a home birth.

Yet another study, this one consisting of every birth in The Netherlands over two years, demonstrates that home births are safer than hospital births.

Birth centers are equipped with way more monitoring machines and on - hand medication than a home birth ever could but meant to feel more homey than a hospBirth centers are equipped with way more monitoring machines and on - hand medication than a home birth ever could but meant to feel more homey than a hospbirth ever could but meant to feel more homey than a hospital.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

Conclusions: Low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour with planned home birth had lower rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta than those with planned hospital birth.

In my area, we have a large plain population that will birth at home regardless, so it's safer to have regulated CNMs with hospital privileges doing it than the underground midwives some would otherwise turn to.

I am not opposed to your conclusion that hospital births are general better than home births but this site fails to cover critical issues.

If ALL births were done at home, you'd have five times as many dead babies than you'd have when compared to ALL births done in a hospital.

That's a maternal death rate at home birth more than 20 TIMES HIGHER than the maternal death rate in the hospital.

But saying home birth is safer than giving birth in a hospital is just ignorant.

But it wasn't safer than a hospital birth, at least not if the definition of safety is was your baby more at risk of dying because she was born at home.

By the way, a great book by another skeptical OBGYN is called «Born in the USA» only he's skeptical of medicalized birth because he's a clinical scientist as well, unlike our author here and he's realized that home birth is safer than hospital birth according to peer - reviewed large scale studies.

Home birth with a midwife, apprentice, doula, birth photographer etc. isn't following his «mammalian model» anymore than a lady delivering in a hospital.

To put this into context, over time, Dr Amy has presented several different lines of hard evidence that the death rate for babies is higher in home birth than it is at hospitals, in America.

Get out of here «home birth momma,» you annoying, «I gave birth at home so I am better and stronger than women who gave birth in hospitals big pharma derp» cow.

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.

Yes, a home birth with a competent attendant would be safer than an unattended home birth or an incompetent attendant, but it won't be and can't be as safe as a hospital birth.

Where you've gone wrong is in claiming that home birth is no more risky to the baby's life and brain function than hospital birth is.

Most of the research on home births in the developed world has found that infant and maternal mortality rates are the same, if not better, than hospital rates.

All of this, along with improvements in technology, has contributed to making home births just as safe, if not safer than hospital births.

Women who started birth at home were on average older, of a lower socioeconomic status and higher educational achievement, and less likely to be African - American or Hispanic than women having full gestation, vertex, singleton hospital births in the United States in 2000.

Even the World Health Organization has said that there is no proof that hospital births are safer than home births in the developed world.

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

Home births (relative risk [RR], 10.55) and births in free - standing birth centers (RR, 3.56) attended by midwives had a significantly higher risk of a 5 - minute Apgar score of 0 (P <.0001) than hospital births attended by physicians or midwives.