Sentences with phrase «look at home birth»

The study, published in the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health on Thursday, looked at the home birth outcomes for roughly 17,000 women as recorded in the Midwives Alliance of North America data collection system between 2004 and 2009.

Long answer: the above study is looking at home births attended by midwives.

Not exact matches

Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.

I don't really think of home birth as «extreme,» but I get a LOT of looks and questions when I tell people my son was born at home.

Throughout my pregnancy Michael and I had been seeing just the one midwife so we felt very relaxed and comfortable with her and were looking forward to having her and my sister around for the birth at home.

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.

MANA looked at 24,000 planned home births, not 24,000 deaths that occurred at home.

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.

For those who have actually attended an un-medicated birth, a home birth or a water birth, can you imagine what the mother must think if she were to look down at a goggled and masked face catching her baby?

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?

Heck, look at the sagas of Drs. Biter and Fischbein — both would have been (rightly) reviled by women who are now their most fervent supporters if it weren't for the fact that they spout the desperately desired line about «natural» and home birth.

Here's a look at 15 things that moms wish that they had done before giving birth that they say would have made giving birth and bringing home baby a lot easier.

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!

I think that if you look at the Cochran Review, which did a meta - analysis of studies of home birth, they actually rejected those studies because they skew the results of the analysis by including those unplanned home births.

If you had told me five years ago that I would have a home birth I would have looked at you like a crazy person.

«I don't know any home birth mama's who don't look at a midwifes credentials, transfer rate, and infant and maternal mortality rate, as well as ability to deal with many different emergency scenarios.»

I read articles on what to expect when birthing at home, the process of having a water birth and looked up tons of different styles of birth session photography.

No one deserves to suffer the loss of a child, but I agree that people need to take a close look at this and at the consequences of the choices made in the name of a «natural birth» at home.

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.

The poster entitled Home birth and risk of neonatal hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, to be presented at the forthcoming February meeting of the Society of Maternal - Fetal Medicine looks at precisely this issue.

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?

This is so amazing when moms share their birth stories making it look so easy and she is calmed ill never take my chances and do it at home.

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].

In this article, we shall look at some of the safe home birth facts the experts may not be willing to tell you concerning home births.

Deciding to go for a home birth may cause your friends and relatives to look at you as if you have lost your mind.

Laura, to try and ease your anxiety about birth look into taking some hypno birthing classes or you can get hypno birthing DVDs to watch at home.

Similarly, it's hard to look at the statistics on risk of increased perinatal mortality at home birth and not have an opinion on it.

Bob — the absolute risk of drunk driving is much, much less than that of home birth (if you look at a single event, as opposed to annual or lifetime stats; the problem with drunk driving is not the risk, it is the prevalence).

Here's another way of looking at that: The risk is still 5 times higher with home births.

This study enables families, providers and policymakers to have a transparent look at the risks and benefits of planned home birth as well as the health benefits of normal physiologic birth.

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

Well, looking at the 10 steps I failed at: — # 6 nothing other than breast milk (gave hungry baby formula b / c I was too tired and drugged up to nurse more than 5 minutes)-- # 7 rooming in (being tired and drugged up I actually wanted to sleep)-- # 9 no pacifiers (I would rather baby have the SIDS prevention and soothing that comes from sucking)-- # 4 initiate breastfeeding within 30 minutes of birth (that C - section thing where they sliced my guts open interfered with that timing)-- # 10 I was referred to the support group but sure as hell didn't go (because I deemed healing at home from my surgery more important than being browbeaten about how I was feeding my baby).

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.

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).

Despite what many midwives claim, these studies look at midwife - attended births, not accidental or unattended home births.

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.

Whenever someone who doesn't know me well finds out that I had a home birth, they pause and take a good, long look at me.

I think the reason more health care professionals are choosing home birth is that they tend to be more healthy (or at least health conscious) and have the educational privilege and professional experience to look for other options.

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.

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).

Looking back over the past decade, I realize that even after giving birth to six children (read all of my birth stories starting here), I've never had what would be considered a «normal» birth and this one was no exception as I had a complete breech water birth at home.

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.

Today, midwife and researcher, Wendy Gordon, LM, CPM, MPH, Midwives Alliance Division of Research, takes a look at the recent article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that shared the authors» view of the appropriate professional response from obstetricians when counseling and discussing home birth with patients.

But even in the short time since our home birth for baby May (almost 1 year - which seems like a super long time and yet the blink of an eye depending on how we look at it), we've realized that there are a bunch of really awesome resources out there that we either didn't know about at the time or have come out since then.

I'm a home - birthing natural mom at 37 weeks with number 3 looking forward to another midwife assisted water birth.

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You probably already know how I'll answer but before you say yes or no, let's look at what Edmiston includes in her article's «utopian marriage contract» — agreements about birth control, having / adopting children, how children will be brought up, whose job will determine where and how the couple lives (including separate bedrooms or homes), how child care and housework will be divvied up, how they will handle finances, and sexual rights and freedoms.