Sentences with phrase «labor than hospital births»

This recent article concludes that planned attended homebirth 2007 - 2010 had 10 times the rate of intrapartum deaths (1/600) during labor than hospital births (1/6000) during the same period.

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According to BabyCenter, the average cost of a birth - center labor is about a third less than a hospital birth, due to less interventions and a shorter stay.

I have very fast (less than 2 hour labors) and have arrived at the hospital at 8 and 7 centimeters with my first two births.

A birth center has more of a home - like feeling to it than a hospital labor ward, with access to food, music, the ability to have friends and family present, and furnishings that look and feel more like home than a hospital room.

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.

You have a higher chance of complications during labor and birth than a woman delivering a single baby, so you should plan to deliver in a hospital.

Out - of - hospital births were also associated with a higher rate of unassisted vaginal delivery and lower rates of obstetrical interventions and NICU admission than in - hospital births, findings that corroborate the results of earlier studies.3 - 5 These associations follow logically from the more conservative approach to intervention that characterizes the midwifery model of care8, 19 and from the fact that obstetrical interventions are either rare (e.g., induction of labor) 20 or unavailable (e.g., cesarean delivery, whether at home or at a birth center) outside the hospital setting.

Obstetrical procedures were more common among women who had planned in - hospital births than among women who delivered out of the hospital (30.4 % vs. 1.5 % for induction of labor and 26.4 % vs. 1.1 % for augmentation of labor, P < 0.001 for both comparisons)(Table 3).

The problem I see is that direct entry midwives in the United States will often attend home births that do not fit these criteria; while insisting that home birth is at least as safe as hospital birth, many will attend twin births, breech births, births after 41 weeks, births of women who have pre-existing or pregnancy - induced disease, births after two or more previous caesarean sections, and births of women whose labor has been jump - started rather than begun spontaneously (whether by herbs, prolonged nipple stimulation, the breaking of her water, or illicit use of medications).

Exactly how it sounds, a home birth is the decision to go through labor and childbirth at home rather than the hospital.

Inclusion criteria were as follows: the study population was women who chose planned home birth at the onset of labor; the studies were from Western countries; the birth attendant was an authorized mid-wife or medical doctor; the studies were published in 1985 or later, with data not older than from 1980; and data on transfer from home to hospital were described.

On average, a smooth home labor can cost up to 60 % less than birth in a hospital.

Improvements in medicine have made it safer to enjoy laboring at home, and now many women are choosing an alternative birthing plan than the stereotypical hospital birth.

According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, while home birth is associated with fewer maternal interventions compared to a planned hospital birth (such as labor induction and c - sections), it holds more than twice the risk for perinatal death — or death within the first week of life.

Planned out - of - hospital birth also had a statistically significant association with higher rates for 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 7, neonatal seizures, neonatal ventilator support, maternal blood transfusion, and unassisted vaginal delivery but with lower rates of both admission to neonatal intensive care units and obstetrical interventions, including induction and augmentation of labor, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery, and severe perineal lacerations.

A number of non-invasive, non-pharmocological solutions have been shown scientifically to be as effective as active management in lowering cesarean section rates: a companion in labor in the hospital (Thornton and Lilford 1994), midwives rather than doctors as the principle birth attendants in hospital births of women without complications (Wagner 1994), out - of - hospital birth centers (Rooks et al. 1990), and planned home birth (Wagner 1994).