Sentences with phrase «look at homebirth»

Overend, Jenni WELCOME WITH LOVE Kane / Miller, 1999 First published in Australia, Welcome with Love is a warm look at homebirth from big brother Jack's perspective.

Do not forget that you are looking at Homebirth within a very specific cultural milieu, that of predominantly white, well off women in developed countries, a culture where pregnant women expect to be the centre of attention during labour and delivery, and to be in control of every aspect of their lives.

Not exact matches

I have a 2 - yr - old I would love to have be at our birth (planned for a birth center but looking into homebirth as well).

There may be a few more bad outcomes in the homebirth groups depending on how you look at the data, but when you consider the number of births we are looking at, the absolute number is so very few that the argument is a little ridiculous.»

Therefore, it is possible to look specifically at white women (almost all homebirths are to white women) ages 20 - 44, singleton pregnancies, at term (37 + weeks), not suffering from intrauterine growth restriction (2500 + gm).

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.

Shouldn't self - proclaimed «midwives» Mary Barhite and Jacqueline Proffit look even a tiny bit remorseful or at least sad in the wake of presiding over yet another homebirth death in the state of North Carolina?

has anyone looked at average charges for the homebirth industry?

To understand why the Birthplace study does not and could not show that homebirth is more cost effective, it is helpful to look at the more detailed version of the findings available here.

In other words, any way you choose to look at it, no matter how carefully you slice and dice the data, there is simply no getting around the fact that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death and brain damage.

If my sister should decide, after looking at the risk rates and her mitigating circumstances, she still wants to homebirth, I would recognize that the absolute risk is still pretty low and not try to talk her into or out of anything.

The paper is only looking at the hospital based government programmes, not the private midwife homebirths that are outside of the health system.

Partly OT: what happens when you have a bad homebirth story (no lasting consequences, thankfully), see the new studies, look at yourself and say with certainty that had this data been available, you wouldn't have made a choice to homebirth but you still support it for low - risk women in UK and Canada fashion?

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

Or look at this way: an increase in the rate of homebirth from 0.5 % to 1 % would constitute a doubling of the number of patients for HB midwives (a 100 % increase), and a drop of 1 patient for every 190 for OBs (a 0.5 % decrease).

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.

These new papers add valuable information by looking at severe neurologic outcomes as well and showing that such outcomes are much more common at planned homebirth.

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?

There is a great review paper by Amos Grunebaum published earlier this year looking at the risk profiles of homebirths that found that high risk patients are being attended at home by CPMs.

To my knowledge, no one had looked at the association between homebirth and cooling therapy... until now.

The actuaries looked at the numbers from homebirths and said, nuh uh, no way, that will cost us a lot of money.

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).

I don't doubt there are safe and compassionate hospitals out there or even compassionate doctors in hospitals that generally aren't, but when a large portion of women are looking for homebirth because their hospital experiences were the antithesis of compassionate, these ethicists need to be looking at what they are suggesting.

For the more sweetly toned websites, have a look at the sidebar, or at the Navel Gazing Midwife, who writes about her work and experiences, and talks about some of the issues in the homebirth community in the US.

Aside from the fact that homebirth has more risks, lets look at other reasons.

Anyway, that experience led me to go back and really look at the safety of homebirth and waterbirth.

Untrained homebirth midwives are often so untrained that they have no idea what to look for or aren't monitoring their client * at all *.

So, I'm looking at the actual article, and on p. 6 (table 3), it says that for the breech (intended) homebirths, there was a c - section rate of 42.8 %.

Therefore, it is possible to look specifically at neonatal mortality (death within 1 hour to within 28 days of age) for babies of white women (almost all homebirths are to white women) ages 20 - 44, singleton pregnancies, at term (37 + weeks), not suffering from intrauterine growth restriction (2500 + gm).

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.

Also, when looking at c - section rates for OOH midwives — a comparison of c - section rates between OOH midwives and CNMs in the hospital is probably better at determining how much a homebirth reduces the chance of a c - section.

Talking to other mums who were preparing for homebirths with older children present helped me to look at my own attitudes and to prepare Joshua for sharing in the birth.

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.