Sentences with phrase «mothers than hospital birth»

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

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If these are not effective and the mother wishes to have medication, we will transport to the hospital (though of more than 500 births, only 1 - 2 women have transported for pain relief).

Australian researchers found that new mothers were more likely to be breastfeeding their newborns a few months after delivery if their hospitals followed the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) guidelines, than if they gave birth in a hospital accredited by the IniHospital Initiative (BFHI) guidelines, than if they gave birth in a hospital accredited by the Inihospital accredited by the Initiative.

There are no studies that demonstrate that homebirth with a US homebirth midwife is less likely to kill or permanently disable either mother or baby than hospital birth under the care of an ob.

With a mortality rate of almost 5x higher than hospital birth, this is not that far off the 6 - 8 times higher we saw for the Oregon data collection, even though the Oregon group almost surely had significantly fewer criteria for risking mothers out (no criteria in some places, I'm sure) as well as lower qualifications for the midwives as CPMs and DEMs.

So then why, in a country where most births take place in hospitals, are mothers dying more frequently than other countries?

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Mothers usually leave the hospital less than 2 days after giving birth.

Studies there (sorry, don't have any references on hand, I'll try to get them posted later) show that home - birthing in this setting is just as safe for mother and child for a first birth, and safer for next births, than a hospital setting.

None of this surprises me, but I think he's more likely to find stories of mothers who went the home birth route as the result of a negative hospital birth than the other way around.

The perinatal (around the time of birth) death rate of babies born in nonhospital settings is much higher than for babies born in a hospital, even though their mothers are supposedly lower - risk.

Birth centers tend to be cheaper than hospitals not only for the time that mothers spend but because hospitals use more resources, such as IV line, belly monitors, electricity, pain drugs, etc..

What floors me is how people continue to ignore the glaringly obvious fact, that homebirth, even under the best circumstances, continues to kill mothers and babies at a rate that is far higher than births that occur in hospital settings.

Unless the mother is too wooy or a midwife herself, it does seem that a free birthing mother is more likely to go to a doctor or hospital if there are complications which could explain why unassisted births in either the Colorado or Oregon study showed a lower mortality rate for unassisted than midwife attended.

However, studies show that even in those countries, it's less safe than hospital birth, and it's important that mothers understand that.

Hospitals are also being asked to encourage new mothers to breastfeed their newborns right after birth, rather than offering them formula.

«Hospitals tend to turn the birth of a child into an organised, sanitised affaire over which the professionals, rather than mothers have control.»

The most recent large scale study comparing outcomes for mother and baby reported in the British Medical Journal last month showed that for women who had previously given birth, adverse outcomes were less common among planned home births (1 per 1,000) than among planned hospital births (2.3 per 1,000).

Home birthing is the newest parenting trend with more and more mothers opting for a certified midwife than a standard hospital birth.

«The planned category of out - of - hospital births is seen to be a generally low - risk group for neonatal mortality, with very few low - birth - weight births and fewer teenage, low - educational levels and unwed mothers than found statewide, «the researchers said.

As mother's opted to use physicians to give birth in hospitals or clinics, rather than using a midwife for home birth, the practice of routine circumcision of male infants blossomed and became nearly universal.

Planned home births are less risky than planned hospital births, particularly for second - time mothers, says research in the British Medical Journal.

Honestly, giving birth at a hospital with pain medication is far more about keeping a mother comfortable than an all natural birth at home is.

«Breastfeeding twice as likely after home births than hospital births: Study of mothers in UK, Ireland may provide important clues to help improve breastfeeding rates.»

In such a case, would it not be better to allow gravity, i.e; the birth mother standing and moving whilst in labour, to take charge rather than the birthing mother instead lying on her back in an ambulance and then hospital along with the accompanying substantial increase in stress levels?I suppose all I am trying to say is that IF my partner and I were to have a second baby, I really would like to support my partner once more in having a home birth.

Rather than heralding this life - saving medical intervention as progress, she says, «Hospitals tend to turn birth into an organised, sanitised affair over which the professionals, rather than mothers have control.»

The studies do not lie, it is just as safe to birth at home than it is in the hospital for a low - risk healthy pregnancy / mother.

In a previous study of 24 healthy women, vaginal microbiome composition became less diverse between the second and third trimesters of pregnancy and just before delivery was enriched with Lactobacillus species, likely contributing to vertical transmission of these bacteria during vaginal birth.21 In a study of 10 newborns in Venezuela, within hours of delivery, the intestinal tracts of infants born vaginally were colonized by Lactobacillus and Prevotella, whereas infants delivered operatively acquired bacteria present on the mother's skin and the hospital environment, such as Staphylococcus, Proprionibacterium, and Corynebacterium.15 Quiz Ref ID Our findings, based on a large group of 6 - week - old infants, indicated that Lactobacillus also contributes to the microbial environment of the gut but to a lesser extent than Bifidobacteria, Bacteroides, and Streptococcus.

This study, which tracked more than 5,000 mothers in the United States and Canada, also reported that home births with low - risk mothers resulted in much lower rates of medical interventions when compared to the intervention rates for low - risk mothers giving birth in hospitals.

In a hospital water birth, there is a lot of monitoring, AND a lot of staff around, so getting the mother out quickly, as soon as there is a problem detected or suspected, is probably less of an issue than at home.

It is much more disturbing that there can be so much variation within one hospital: Going to Ein Karem was a totally reasonable choice for a mother who wanted to be with her babies a lot — it worked for you and for many other people (myself included; when my son was born there I had him by my side from his birth to our discharge other than when I asked the nurses to watch him while I took a shower), but then you hear nightmare stories like this one.

Although having to go through IVF and gestational diabetes and 2 c - sections and Joey's NICU / nursery stays and both kids self weaning were all huge emotional and physical traumas for me (and my husband), now that they're in the past and I'm a mommy to two amazing toddlers, I can see that it all worked out how it was supposed to.And my advice to all new mothers who hope / plan to nurse take a breastfeeding class when pregnant, have a breastpump in the house before the baby is born, buy nursing bras that have front panels that you can open easily (and bring some to the hospital with you when you go to give birth), don't be afraid to pump and let someone else give the baby a bottle of your milk when you need to sleep, hold off on introducing baby food until much closer to 1 year old than 6 ohtnms, and be prepared for it to be hard and possibly painful at first (think cracked, bleeding nipples and breasts that are so full of milk you think they will explode so also have lanolin and / or nipple cream in the house, and nurse or pump well before you let yourself become engorged and in pain).

The researchers suggest, based on their analysis of the data, that screening compliance could be increased by focusing educational and outreach efforts on certain groups who were less likely to get their infants screened for congenital CMV: less educated mothers, babies not born in a hospital and infants who received hearing tests later than 14 days after birth.

I read some where that hospital births had a higher mortality rate for mothers and infants than home births.