Sentences with phrase «injury at homebirth»

He's the guy who apparently thinks it's simply hilarious that people are warning him about the increased rate of death and brain injury at homebirth.

Will MANA, the organization that represents homebirth midwives, review its requirements in light of the unacceptably high rate of death and injury at homebirth?

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I can tell you, however, that as a homebirth advocate I have received numerous letters over the years from grieving mothers who wonder if their hospital born baby might have survived (or avoided injury) had they been born at home.

It's not a tradeoff - the risk of both death and serious injury are higher at homebirth.

I'm grieved to point out a new and growing genre of mommy blogs: blogs set up specifically to recount the death or serious injury of babies at homebirth and the aftermath for their devastated mothers and families.

The choice of an Apgar score of zero and the primary outcome measurement is particularly apt, since severe neurologic injury is particularly likely at homebirth, because homebirth midwives do not monitor the fetal heart rate appropriately.

And then let's look at the injuries and deaths that occured in homebirth with CPMs and the like... how many would have been prevented in a hospital setting?

When compared with babies born vaginally in the hospital, babies born at homebirth had a rate of hypoxic brain damage 32 times higher, suggesting that C - sections dramatically decreased the risk of hypoxic brain injury.

Because I can think of a few off the top of my head that can NOT be spotted far enough in advance at home to get to the emergency services needed before injury or death occurs — cord prolapse, severe PPH, shoulder dystocia, cervical laceration, hell even fetal distress most of the time because US homebirth midwives do not properly track the fetal heartrate and have no ability or equipment to do tracings (which are the only way to pick up on some types of distress).