Not exact matches
Frankie Perez never felt
at home in Mexico, so immediately after finishing his secondary education in Aguascalientes he returned to the U.S. Without any particular intent or design, Raul and Maria had
given birth to a profoundly binational family — a family,
like millions of others, with relationships stretched irreversibly across the line.
Things
like choosing the type of provider,
giving birth at home or hospital, which laboratory tests or how many ultrasounds, if any, are necessary, how her labor is monitored, and risks and benefits of any interventions.
Birth (just like driving a car) is NEVER without risk, regardless of the location, and a qualified, experienced caregiver mitigates a great deal of the potential risk of giving birth at
Birth (just
like driving a car) is NEVER without risk, regardless of the location, and a qualified, experienced caregiver mitigates a great deal of the potential risk of
giving birth at
birth at home.
In fact, this couple (
like so many) were very much together; the mother had even
given birth in the bath
at home, unaided save for the young father's help.
Consider where you would
like to
give birth — for example, many women prefer
giving birth at home in warm water, through a process facilitated by a midwife led team
Perhaps the biggest advantage of
giving birth at home is that you will be able to sleep in your own bed that very first night, and nothing is
like your own bed.
People who picked the
birth center,
like most people who choose
home birth, believed that nonhospital
birth was «
at least as safe» as
giving birth in the hospital.
Who knows what it would have been
like to have a light sleeper (as Adiah is) during a noisy night time
birth (I've been
at multiple
home births where the children slept through soundly... I assumed that would not be the case in the close quartered apartment we lived in
at the time
given my sound making and her sleeping disposition).
Whatever your situation may be, if you're anywhere between being curious and sold on
giving birth at home, I'd
like to encourage you to ruminate on this question for the next few minutes:
And, since only about only 1 % of people
give birth at home, for the overwhelming majority of us, the hospital seems
like our only option.
Then they would have the time to really spend with their patients, address concerns, and take their time with «natural - ish cesareans» Reducing the overall number of women in the hospital
giving birth (by having a system that supports low risk, healthy moms birthing their babies
at home with trained professionals
like CPM's and CNM's) would allow moms who birthed through surgery to stay in the hospital longer and receive the one - on - one medical care that they so very much deserve.
after having my 2nd accidentally
at home (and by accident i mean the whole labor took half an hour) i refused to
give birth to my 3rd in the hospital
like i did w / my first.
At home, in the hospital, in a birthing center, by a stream in a thunderstorm (if you can manage the timing), on the floor of the Oval Office (if you can get Obama's permission to
give birth in his work space), wherever you
like.
I
gave birth to my 3rd daughter
at home, and she took to breastfeeding
like a champ.
Some other interesting facts about Lane I just have to mention: she slept on a wooden pillow for a while, she's
given birth at home like I have, and she's been in long - term recovery for more than 20 years.
A
birth center is
like giving birth at someone else's
home.
Might sound
like a weird topic, but having experienced
home birth ourselves and interviewed dozens and dozens of moms and families who have chosen it as well (some who've also had experiences
giving birth in a hospital), it's easy to see why we wanted to talk about the elements of
giving birth at home which we really appreciate.