Sentences with phrase «homebirth than in the hospital»

Your midwives saw to it that was maintained as well by not warning you that all of the data on homebirth in the US show a 3 - 8x higher risk of the baby dying in homebirth than in hospital birth.

It is those who survive by the skin of their teeth who are expensive — and, let's face it, that is a lot less likely in a homebirth than in the hospital.

if you define success as «fewer dead babies» however you're 450 % more likely to have a dead baby with a homebirth than in a hospital.

The key point about homebirth is that MORE babies die at homebirth than in the hospital.

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Even when women are segregated in maternity wards, infections are much more commonplace after hospital births than homebirths.»

In the event that a condition arises during my pregnancy or labor that indicates that a homebirth is no longer a safe, responsible choice, I have no qualms about going back to my OB (whom I like and respect) or being transferred to a hospital (which is literally less than five minutes from our house) if necessary.

I have to first admit that I've been a little reticent to post about this, not because I'm not excited about it, but because homebirth in our culture is not seen as a safe or wise choice (though in reality it is as safe or safer than hospital births in most cases — there are a number of studies that indicate as such).

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.

In Missouri, the risk of intrapartum death at homebirth is nearly 20 times higher than hospital birth.

Dr. Tuteur writes about more than 10 homebirth deaths a year, many of which take place at or are called at the hospital, the majority of which meet those criteria for being included in the analysis.

I expect the data to be partial, and very slickly presented to put the best spin on it all [something like «90 + % of homebirths are uncomplicated», not that a certain percentage, much higher than hospital births, result in death or morbidity].

This is the 4th confirmed homebirth death in NC this year for a rate that is a whopping TEN times higher than the rate of death for comparable risk hospital birth.

Yes, babies die in hospitals — though they are predominantly premature, no prenatal care, congenital defects, etc, not HEALTHY TERM babies — but the RELATIVE RISK is MUCH lower than comparable risk homebirth.

We know it's higher than in hospital, but that is at least partly due to inadequate midwifery education and to some high risk women being considered as suitable candidates for homebirth, so it's a foregone conclusion that the stats will be bad.

In yet another example of a strikingly robust finding, planned homebirth in NZ had more than triple the neonatal death rate of planned hospital birtIn yet another example of a strikingly robust finding, planned homebirth in NZ had more than triple the neonatal death rate of planned hospital birtin NZ had more than triple the neonatal death rate of planned hospital birth.

The Canadian study has an unusual way of calculating perinatal mortality, and the Dutch study points out that homebirth is as safe as hospital birth in the Netherlands without addressing the fact that the homebirth population is much lower risk than the hospital population.

What floors me is how people continue to ignore the glaringly obvious fact, that homebirth, even under the best circumstances, continues to kill mothers and babies at a rate that is far higher than births that occur in hospital settings.

We have the data that shows homebirth mortality rates with CPMs is 5.4 / 1000 which is actually 7 - 9 xs greater than in hospital births with similar co-factors.

Planned homebirth with a licensed homebirth midwife in Oregon has a death rate 9X higher than term births in the hospital.

The kind thing to say to someone considering a homebirth is: Choose homebirth if you like, but know that your baby is far more likely to die or be injured than during a birth in hospital.

In Colorado, licensed homebirth midwives have a perinatal death rate more than double that of all hospital birth in the state (including premature babiesIn Colorado, licensed homebirth midwives have a perinatal death rate more than double that of all hospital birth in the state (including premature babiesin the state (including premature babies).

The reality, backed by statistics, is that homebirth, even in countries which have high licensing standards and good emergency backup systems — which the US most emphatically does not — is far more dangerous than giving birth in hospital, grumpy staff or not.

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.

Second, the authors ACTUALLY showed that homebirth with a CPM in 2000 had a mortality rate 3X higher than comparable risk hospital birth in 2000.

I've used the CDC Wonder data from 2003 - 2008 to demonstrate that in each year, planned homebirth with a homebirth midwives has a neonatal death rate anywhere from 3 - 7X higher than hospital birth.

I believe a lot of women choose homebirth because they truly believe that it is «as safe or safer than hospital» and through fear that being in a hospital will lead to psychological damage / bonding issues and a potentially harmed baby.

18 deaths in 3 years, that's 6 per year and based on the fact that homebirth rates have been rising in the past 3 years and nearly 30 % of women are opting for homebirth I'd say those stats are pretty good and far better than your risks when walking through the doors of any hospital.

lol) I wasn't stating you were more likely to aquire a staph infection than die in a homebirth, rather that you were more likely to die from a staph infection than a homebirth, and the staph would be aquired from the hospital, where it is rampant, which is why they don't like people in hospitals longer than they need to be.

When this 20 % risk of death is compared to the 0.02 % rate of cord prolapse during labor at homebirth that might have a better outcome if it happened in hospital, this means that a low risk woman has a 1000 times higher chance of having a life threatening complication either to her life or her fetus / newborns life at planned hospital birth, than if she plans to have an attended homebirth with a well - trained practitioner.

The three recent papers published in American Journal of ObGyn: Wax metaanalysis (2010), Chervenak (2013), Grunebaum **** (see note at bottom)(Apgar 0, 2013) and the U.K. Birth Place study (2013) report perinatal death rates from homebirth as 3 times or 10 times higher than perinatal death rates in the first week than hospital birth.

In the case of Oregon, homebirth with a homebirth midwife has a death rate 800 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth.

Homebirth is very different than hospital birth — people do not come and wait in the other room until the baby is born.

Even if you include late preterm babies in the hospital, it's 1.06 / 1000 — STILL lower than the homebirth set.

There would have to be one or more complications of low risk homebirths that result in death in the first week that can be prevented by being in hospital, and death from these complications would have to occur more often than low risk deaths at planned hospital births.

The problem is... there is no explanation for why low risk newborns would have a higher rate of death in the first week after Planned Attended Homebirth than after Planned Hospital birth.

Oft quoted research studies state 3X to 10X more babies die in the first week after low risk homebirth than hospital birth.

In fact, the latest statistics from the CDC show that planned homebirth in 2007 with a homebirth midwife (often called a certified professional midwife, CPM, or licensed midwife, LM) had a newborn death rate more than 7 TIMES higher than low risk hospital birtIn fact, the latest statistics from the CDC show that planned homebirth in 2007 with a homebirth midwife (often called a certified professional midwife, CPM, or licensed midwife, LM) had a newborn death rate more than 7 TIMES higher than low risk hospital birtin 2007 with a homebirth midwife (often called a certified professional midwife, CPM, or licensed midwife, LM) had a newborn death rate more than 7 TIMES higher than low risk hospital birth.

I believe Homebirth has always been shown to have more risk than hospital birth in every credible study.

And all of them have found that the neonatal death rate is far higher with homebirths than with comparable low risk pregnancies in the hospital.

If every woman planning a homebirth signed a piece of paper saying «I understand that my baby is 3 - 5x more likely to die in a homebirth than a hospital birth.

CNM midwives in the US are well trained and they tend to work in hospitals where they get enough experience to know better than to «trust birth» to any old homebirth yahoo who learned all she needed to know through apprenticing with another yahoo.

Even in my case — without full medicaid coverage — a hospital birth would have cost me about 3000 dollar less than I ended up paying for my midwife, homebirth supplies etc..

To summarize, the MANA statistics show that homebirth as practiced in the US has a death rate 450 % higher than hospital birth.

I think that childbirth is safer nowadays because of the prenatal care that women receive, not so much because women are giving birth in hospitals (even though I am aware that there are problems that come up during delivery, which would make a hospital birth safer than, say, a homebirth).

You can't accept the fact that MANA's own datasets prove that homebirth in the US is more dangerous to the baby than hospital birth, yet you persist in flinging mostly lame rejoinders and getting your dander up when anyone has the temerity to call you on your ignorance.

The birthplace study in the UK tells us that for first - time moms, the rate of homebirth birth injuries was several times higher than for those who went to the hospital.

Does nine times higher death rate of breech babies in homebirth according to MANA stats than the death rate of breech births in hospitals count as a proven negative outcome or not?

The truly shocking thing about homebirth is that even when you include malpractice and negligence in the hospital statistics, homebirth STILL has a death rate that is 450 % higher than hospital birth for comparable risk women.

Homebirth is in America as Homebirth in America does, yet the Homebirth advocates who are looking at the actually data are making excuses about the worse outcomes as they speculate that it is either due to the high risks births that were included, or because they must have been farther away from the hospital than just 5 minutes, or just ignoring the outcomes data and focusing on the low intervention data.

In other words, the death rate at homebirth is 450 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth.