Sentences with phrase «look at hospital births»

If you are having your birth in a hospital or a birthing center, take a look at Hospital Births and Birthing Centers so you can know what to expect.

Jennifer Margulis has spent years looking at hospital birth practices.

Not exact matches

(Sometimes, when I look at all the birth interventions and the hospital routines that interfere and the misinformation and the formula advertising, I think it's a miracle that any mother is actually able to breastfeed!!

Private Midwifery at Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital, London, who is putting together a clinical trial looking at how alternative therapies can help women giving birth.

-- Doulas support all kinds of birth choices, but if you are looking to have a natural birth at a hospital, having a doula can help you «even up» the odds.

The filmmakers set out to look at alternatives to hospital births attended by a doctor, such as midwife deliveries in hospitals, homes or birth centers.

The study looked at intended place of birth to rule out improperly assigning transferred patients to the hospital group, and included only the lowest possible risk women.

Perhaps more importantly, though, homebirth advocates will be able to point to this study as evidence that opponents of homebirth disingenuously sliced and diced the data to make hospital birth look good on at least one criterion.

We walked to the hospital (a 2 - block walk), holding hands, carrying our birth ball and looking at the stars in the sky.

We will look closely at hospital birthing practices and how technological interventions are influencing the primal process of gestation and birth.

As time went on, and she learned more about the natural birthing process and the current state of maternity care (as well as reflecting on her unmedicated hospital birth experience), she knew that she would not want to birth another child in the hospital, so as she and her husband Matt looked forward to conceiving their second child she had already decided on hiring a licensed midwife and planning to birth at home.

If you want to birth at a certain hospital, you will need to look for a clinic that takes self - referrals or make sure your family doctor sends you in the right direction.

If you're looking into water birth in the Hudson Valley, the staff at Hudson Valley Hospital can give you the information you need to make confident decisions for your baby's big arrival.

I see it a bit differently — I can't see how a paper that didn't look at causes of death, or comment on the neonatal death rate in comparison to low - risk hospital birth, made it to publication.

We have had several home birth babies die in our community over the past year, and looking at the medical records it seems very unlikely that any of them would have died had they been born in a hospital.

Is there data that we can look at about home v hospital birth in there?

Any way you look at it, homebirth is more dangerous for mothers than hospital birth.

In terms of premature birth, most hospitals in the United States look at viability from the perspective of when a preemie has at least some chance of surviving.

around midnight i began to question my decision to have a home birth, & maria was getting tired... she called in a second midwife for support & my doula arrived from another birth... i was afraid of the power - i hadn't felt it like this in kayenn's birth... i was afraid that i would come apart - even though i had to - i know now that coming apart is a part of the process... someplace in the middle of this birth i realized that i did not know how to do this - i was acting against the birth process - literally & emotionally... i had a mental idea of what it should look, sound, smell, be like... after some hours maria checked me again, i had been at 9 cm for 4 hours... she said to me, «some babies can come through at 9 cm, but yours will not, sokhna... sokhna, you are going to have to fight to bring this baby out... go into the bathroom, get in the shower & work it out... «so i did... i went in the cold bathroom alone & remembered every cold detail of kayenn's birth... i wondered if i could get to the hospital on time to have an emergency c - section & i began to cry... & as i cried i had to go to the bathroom - i sat on the toilet & the rushes came down like nothing i can explain - but they didn't hurt - it was just POWER!

That's important because many homebirth studies look at actual place of birth and thereby include homebirth transfers in the hospital group, skewing the results.

Let's take a look at the moment - to - moment truth and the experiences mom and baby will go through in a hospital setting vs. a home birth setting.

When figuring out the rate of perinatal death for in - hospital births or out - of - hospital births, there are four main numbers we're looking at: total number of births, total number of term deaths (past 37 weeks), intrapartum deaths (during labor), and neonatal deaths (first 6 days of life).

If you like aspects of both home birth and hospital birth, but neither one seems quite right, why not look at what a birth center offers?

«It wasn't until we were in the hospital after the birth that we looked at each other and said, «Wow, that just happened,»» Williams told TODAY Parents.

They don't even include any references to the large - scale studies in Canada [6] and the Netherlands [7] that has found no increased risk for homebirth versus hospital birth and one US study looking at an integrated system (like those in Canada and the Netherlands) found the same outcome [8](nudge, nudge, USA).

The one study they included to try and argue that travel time matters even in highly integrated areas was based in the Netherlands and looked at travel time for all births (not home versus hospital) and was based on travel time of 20 minutes or less versus more than 20 minutes [9].

If you were to look at national statistics — which includes high - risk women who give birth in the hospital — it would not be appropriate, for example, to compare your c - section rate to Vital Records data on c - section rates.

If I had to take a guess at why you are distorting the truth to make hospital births look safer than they are is because you are scared.

If you look at non-anomalous births only the neonatal mortality was 0.15 % for home birth, 0.04 % for hospital.

And this inflammatory use of a «relative percentage risk» rather than relative risk or absolute risk... for example, even if assuming the writer's awkward data is valid, you can to look at infant living rates and see 99.6 % vs 98.4 %, which means there's only a 1.2 % higher risk of bad outcome from at - home birth than hospital.

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.

But too many people out there are looking at your press release and saying they knew all along that Homebirth was as safe as hospital birth.

The researchers, who reported their findings in a recent issue of Child: Care, Health and Development, looked at these factors during pregnancy and one month after birth in more than 3,000 women, 18 to 35 years old, who gave birth at 78 hospitals in Pennsylvania between January 2009 and April 2011.

As a result, this study provides a much - needed look at the outcomes of women who intended to give birth at home (regardless of whether they ultimately transferred to hospital care).

To truly address the reasons why women choose potentially unsafe home birth situations and attendants, we need to look as their — usually unconscious — drive to protect their mental health, when faced with disrespectful, intrusive and abusive medical environments (I'm not saying that all hospitals are like that at all, mine isn't, but it can be a major factor).

Yet, when I analyzed all of the studies that the Midwives» Alliance of North America (MANA) says comprise the best evidence for the safety of home birth, I found that every study that looked at nonhospital birth in the United States (and many of the studies that looked at other countries, as well) reported much higher death rates for babies when compared to similar hospital births.

One study in the Netherlands looked at almost 530,000 low - risk planned births and found that with the proper services in place (such as a well - trained midwife and good transportation), home births are just as safe as hospital births.

The study looked at 2,292 women who gave birth at an upstate New York hospital over a nine - year period.

Director Abby Epstein, and Executive Producer Ricki Lake's film takes a closer look at: hospital births, why -LSB-...]

Now looking at the rates of these complications, which are on par with the risk level of rupture, we have to wonder why ALL hospitals offering birth services are not required to have immediate access to a cesarean.

A closer look at the background characteristics shows that multiparous women with a complicated previous pregnancy, including instrumental delivery in our study, were more likely to opt for hospital birth than for home birth.

You know, the real problem is the fact that this sort of thing has become so accepted and commonplace, that no one even wants to look at a lawsuit involving hospital birth issues.

I'm no expert, but in addition to the vast amount of research I did before my 2nd child (homebirth), my experience with an ob before I switched to a midwife with that same child, my experience with a medicated vaginal hospital birth w / my first child, my experience in talking to dozens of women that have had surgical births, in addition to all that anecdotal «wisdom», I have taken a graduate level Sociology of Medicine class that was an in depth look at our current medical system from a sociological perspective and we spent a couple of weeks talking about the medical model of birth and the alternatives.

Maybe I'm wrong looking at the increased neonatal death rate in MANA's study, the increased risk of HIE in January 2014 ACOG, the increased risk of Apgars of 0 at 5 minutes (Grunebaum 2014) at homebirth as compared to hospital birth.

So I looked at my husband, who was in favor of hospital birth and said quietly at first, «something's wrong.

I'm looking at birth statistics in Canada (rough, rough numbers)-- and it looks like the risk of having a stillbirth (never mind early neonatal death or those who transferred to hospital and had a subsequent still birth)-- is nearly double with home birth (81/6247 =.01296) compared to hospital birth (2734 / 380454).

Dr. Wanigaratne's research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health looked at Ontario immigration and hospital records housed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) from more than 120,000 births between 2002 and 2010, comparing births of refugee and non-refugee women.

Prior studies have found that patients admitted to hospitals on weekends have a higher risk of death, but there have been conflicting results from studies looking at birth outcomes and day of birth.

I had most of my kids at planned home birth with midwives (5 kids)-- feel free to contact me for any questions and what to look out for if giving birth in the hospital.

Failure to carry out these screenings can be looked at as medical negligence, making it possible to pursue a birth injury lawsuit against the hospital or medical doctor.