I've done homebirths [in the UK] and the potential for irreparable disaster was present at every one, although there was a crisis in only one [abruption] and mother and baby were both saved, they were also at much greater risk at
home than in the hospital and in the end required much more intensive treatment [largely because of time delays] than if the same situation had happened in hospital.
This also ignores the fact that MORE babies die at
home than in the hospital.
I begged to go home after one night in the hospital with my 2nd and 3rd c - sections because I knew I would get better rest at
home than in the hospital.
I understand that many people feel more comfortable at
home than in a hospital, but I felt much more comfortable giving birth in a hospital.
Additionally, the psychological and self - esteem benefits of a natural birth were extremely appealing and seemed more feasible in the comfort of my own
home than in a hospital.
Not exact matches
Today, the patented system is used
in more
than 5,000 schools districts, therapy centers,
hospitals and
homes in the United States and Canada.
Maria, however, blew out windows at some
hospitals and police stations, turned some streets into roaring rivers and destroyed hundreds of
homes across Puerto Rico, including 80 percent of houses
in a small fishing community near the San Juan Bay, which unleashed a storm surge of more
than 4 feet.
They were kept apart from their partners
in hospital situations, funeral arrangements and more
than once, I would see the surviving partner left without a
home when the late partners family took their
home from him.
We recall the starving thousands
in China, the pitiable folk
in insane asylums, prisons,
hospitals, the drunkard who is violent
in his
home, the prodigal son, wasting his substance
in the far country, remembering that we, too, are this prodigal son who can say nothing more to his father
than, «Father, I am no more worthy to be called thy son...» What has happened to the image of God?
Open murder of political dissidents and opposition both at
home and abroad, ww2 style land grabs, purposely bombing syrian
hospitals, censorship of the entire populace with intelligence services meting out punishments, having a sham of a judiciary and media while telling more lies
than truth to its populace thereby eroding their confidence
in any information to enlighten them (much like what the authoritarian right is trying to do here).
His readings are picked up by more
than 5,000 specially equipped radio receivers, some
in private
homes, some
in veterans»
hospitals,
in nine northern California counties.
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.
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.
After two magical days
in the
hospital where he slept like an angel for 5 and 6 - hour stretches, I quickly became frustrated to bring him
home and find he was eating every 30 min to an hour, and would not nap more
than 15 min to an hour.
In some hospitals, you may be able to stay 24/7 in a room attached to the premature nursery; in others there may be no options other than to come in during the day and go home at nigh
In some
hospitals, you may be able to stay 24/7
in a room attached to the premature nursery; in others there may be no options other than to come in during the day and go home at nigh
in a room attached to the premature nursery;
in others there may be no options other than to come in during the day and go home at nigh
in others there may be no options other
than to come
in during the day and go home at nigh
in during the day and go
home at night.
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.
There are four emergency situations that can better be dealt with
in hospital than at
home and they can be easily remembered with the mnemonic device CRAP:
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?
And this paper
in the BMJ suggest low risk moms with midwives at
home have a higher mortality rate
than all the high risk moms
in hospitals.
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.
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.
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.
There is a much higher rate of infections to new moms and babies
in hospitals than born at
home.
That's easier said
than done when you want to use them
in the
hospital or once the cord falls off at
home.
Yet another study, this one consisting of every birth
in The Netherlands over two years, demonstrates that
home births are safer
than hospital births.
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.
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.
If you declare that PPHs at
home «don't require blood» and so are «less severe»
than in the
hospital, that's a bit like saying you drank your coffee this morning black «for a change» when really you ran out and were too lazy to go to the corner store for milk.
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.
I had a 31 weeker, and while I was * immensely * grateful for the amazing NICU care he received, I would go
home and read Jeevan's blog and feel somewhat guilty and so, so sad to read that while my preemie was snug and warm and fed
in his isolette, being watched over by highly trained nurses and respiratory therapists, a baby older
than mine died because the power went out
in the
hospital overnight (no backup generator) and they couldn't keep him warm enough.
You will have better luck delivering breech at
home than head - down
in hospital (
in terms of chances of getting a c - section).
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.
This is like a study that says «people who have a elective AAA repair are more likely to end up
in an ICU
than people who suffer AAA rupture at
home»... And forget to say that this is because most people who have AAA rupture at
home die before they get to
hospital, or on the table
in the OR, while EVERYONE who has an elective open AAA repair spends time
in ICU as a precaution.
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.
I'm also a mother of three, and to me there is no time more beautiful
than when a brand new person is born, whether it is
in a
hospital setting or safely at
home under the watch of a licensed midwife.
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.
The FACT is... more women DO die
in hospital births (from things that could be prevented, or from unnecessary interventions)
than in home births, and that women were NOT «dying
in droves» from
home births back
in the day... death during birth was fairly uncommon until women were forced into dirty birth centers with doctors knocking them out and delivering their babies without being held to any sanitation standards because promiscuity was on the rise and we had to keep the «dirty women» separate from the rest of the
hospital.