Not exact matches
My wife and I had our
first 2 in a hospital and it almost killed them because of the drugs they forced
on my wife the last 2 were born at
home in a pool the 1st homebirth we had a
midwife present the 2nd one the
midwife was an hour and a half late so I delivered our daughter by myself it was awsome and now my wife is PG with our 5th baby we have the same
midwife who was late to our last birth and we already know she is not going to be here ontime mostly because she lives 2 hours away from where we live and we are ok with this.
First, a little background
on the study, Outcomes of planned
home birth with registered
midwife versus planned hospital birth with
midwife or physician.
You should receive a visit from your
midwife in your
first few days after bringing baby
home, where he or she will assess your baby's health, weigh your newborn to ensure they are putting
on enough weight and give baby a heel prick test to check for rare conditions such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease and thyroid deficiency.
For the
first little while, you'll probably have
midwives and health visitors coming to your
home to keep an eye
on you and baby, and ensuring baby is gaining weight nicely.
I had «failure to progress» in my
first labor too, and an operative (forceps) delivery, but went
on to have four more, completely natural, births — two in hospital and two at
home, attended by
midwives.
In the largest study of its kind, using Centers for Disease Control data
on nearly 14 million linked infant birth and neonatal death data, term singleton U.S. births, researchers at New York - Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center found the absolute risk of neonatal mortality was 3.2 / 10,000 births in
midwife hospital births, and 12.6 / 10,000 births in
midwife home births, and it further increased in
first - time mothers to 21.9 / 10,000 births in
midwife home deliveries.