Sentences with phrase «numbers at homebirth»

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The number of homebirths still hovers at around 1 %.

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.»

Leaving aside for the moment that this is the same group who crowed over a 20 % increase in homebirths from from 0.56 % to 0.67 % of US births, does dismissing the absolute number of death as low fully convey what is at stake in the decision to attempt homebirth?

MANA refuses to release the number of those 24,000 babies who died at the hands of homebirth midwives.

Babies die all the time at homebirth, and the biggest risk factors lead to the greatest number of deaths.

However, you are lashing out at a community of women who are working hard to give their babies the best start possible and completely ignoring the huge number of women and babies that die in hospitals that far exceeds that of homebirths... Trying to clean the speck out of my eye while you've got a flippin tree in your own eye.

I agree that the database almost certainly under - counts the number of deaths at CPM attended homebirth.

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).

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to speculate that an extraordinarily high number of babies die at the hands of homebirth midwives.

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

We can also be sure that the authors understood that their data showed that homebirth has a horrifically high death rate, because they try to hide the number of deaths for the past 5 years, released the data only under pressure, and then proceeded to draw a conclusion entirely at odds with what their own data showed.

In my experiences with homebirth midwives that practice in Illinois (there is still a large Mennonite population, and a number of women who still wish to birth at home), the recommend having a homebirth friendly Pediatrician in place because, «there are orders to call CPS if a homebirthed baby or mom transfers to a hospital».