I am amazed at how delusional many
of these home birth mothers are.
The Technocratic Body of the Pregnant Professional and the Organic Body
of the Home Birth Mother»
Not exact matches
Sing
of the King who was born as an outcast,
mother unmarried, his
birth far from
home, born in a stable in occupied country, toddler in exile for fear
of the throne.
Fabian Senninger has pledged his international future to Nigeria ahead
of Germany, the country
of his
birth and his father as he feels more at
home with the national team
of the country where his
mother hails from.
Research from the Netherlands — which has a high rate
of home births — found no difference in death rates
of either
mothers or babies in 530,000
births.
I took care
of my
mother would drive over to care for her zoom back
home and then care for my damily after the
birth if my children he always would go off and get himself food.
• In a case study
of home - visiting support directed to the father in a couple in which the
mother had been treated for depression after the
birth, positive effects on father - infant interactions were observed with «knock - on» positive effects on the
mother's parenting (Fletcher, 2009).
Fathers were much less likely to be involved after the
birth if their baby's
mother lived with her parents during the pregnancy — and
of course the very young
mothers were more likely to have been living with their own parents (or with one
of them): 63 %
of the youngest group
of mums lived «at
home» while only 13 %
of those aged 22 or over did so.
Practice Guidelines for California Licensed Midwives Best Practice Guidelines: Transfer from Planned
Home Birth to Hospital Citizens for Midwifery
Home Birth Facts Canadian Medical Association Journal: Outcomes
of Planned
Home Birth Solace for
Mothers: Informed Consent Questions to Consider when Interviewing a Doctor or Midwife
Invariably
birth is portrayed as something traumatic to be feared: a serious dramatic emergency room caesarean, a
home birth ending in the death
of the
mother or the screen filled with a screaming woman lying down on a bed struggling, fighting to give
birth.
overcoming fear, particularly fear
of being a
mother,
home birth, midwife support, feelings honoured and supported, surrendering to the process
Though most
mothers still give
birth in a hospital setting, more and more women are electing to have their babies in
birth centers or even in the comfort and privacy
of their own
homes.
... [Wh] ile a small percentage
of intended
home birth deaths are wrongly attributed to hospital deaths using
birth certificate data, a much larger percentage
of home births with no injury to
mother or baby are wrongly attributed to hospitals as well.
Obviously no one can know for sure, but it couldn't have helped that Charlotte's
mother gave
birth at
home (not a real
birth center), that her midwives, self - proclaimed «experts in normal
birth» didn't pick up on Charlotte's probable distress during labor and were incapable
of performing the expert resuscitation that may have saved Charlotte's life.
[The Coroner] said midwife Fiona Hallinan had indirectly contributed to the baby's death by failing to tell the
mother of the risks
of home birth which had «sustained the misguided views
of the
mother, contributed to her disregarding the advice provided by obstetric medical clinicians and facilitated in her a level
of confidence that she may safely proceed to
home birth».
Again I ask any
mother contemplating a
home birth: is this what you want to live with for the rest
of your life?
... [F] or low - risk women with a skilled midwife in attendance,
home birth is a safe option for newborns with lower rates
of interventions and complications for
mothers.
Surely it therefore has everything to do with being at
home unless you can have an OB at the
home of every
mother giving
birth?
My
mother's twin was lost at
birth (it was 1949, the USSR; no ultrasounds, nothing
of what we take for granted today), and though perhaps my Grandmother had the small comfort
of at least coming
home with one baby rather than with empty arms, she never forgot.
Campaigners against this legal change are worried that the 7 %
of fathers whose names are currently not on their children's
birth certificates are the 5 - 6 %
of fathers who use violence in their
homes at this point in time — and that
mothers have been, wisely, seeking to exclude them.
Children Do Better in School If Their
Mother Stays
Home for the First Year Youngsters are less likely to succeed at school if their
mothers return to work within a year
of their
birth, according to a major study.
As a
mother who has birthed both
of her children at
home, neither
of which were «normal»
births, I find such negative campaigning disturbing and upsetting.
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.
I think the folks posting here should travel to a Third World country where
home birth is the norm — and where people are clamoring for decent hospitals and trained obstetricians to save them from the horror
of dead babies and dead
mothers.
AFTH's «
Birth Mother Gift Card Drive» Just before the holiday season, AFTH identifies several birth mothers, parenting other children at home, as being in need of extra financial assist
Birth Mother Gift Card Drive» Just before the holiday season, AFTH identifies several
birth mothers, parenting other children at home, as being in need of extra financial assist
birth mothers, parenting other children at
home, as being in need
of extra financial assistance.
For the first 6 months after placement, I sent a weekly package to the
birth mother's
home full
of photos.
Home Birth, water labor and / or birth, supportive environment, support of birth choices and plans, no separation of mother and baby, immediate care of the newborn including full pediatric
Birth, water labor and / or
birth, supportive environment, support of birth choices and plans, no separation of mother and baby, immediate care of the newborn including full pediatric
birth, supportive environment, support
of birth choices and plans, no separation of mother and baby, immediate care of the newborn including full pediatric
birth choices and plans, no separation
of mother and baby, immediate care
of the newborn including full pediatric exam.
In order to receive the government «
birth allowance» payment, a
home birthing
mother must bring her baby in to a hospital within 24 hours
of the
birth, and then be admitted for at least 12 hours.
As a
mother to two breech babes who have all
of their brain cells thanks to c - sections, I'm appalled that any
mother would take such a risk by having a
home birth.
Together with Mary Jackson
home birth midwife they have developed a system for evaluating the needs
of pregnant mom's, their babies and the father that involves establishing «two layers
of support» to the baby, the
mother, the father and also the
birth team.
If these conditions could not be met, the
mother and baby could not be discharged from hospital after 48 hours but had to stay for 10 days [when the midwife's legal responsibility ended], and
of course a
home birth was ruled out.
The
mother should be encouraged to see successful transfer not as a failure
of the
home birth but rather as a success
of the system
In addition to apprising the expectant
mother of the increase in neonatal mortality and other neonatal complications with planned
home birth...
The name
of the
mother who had high blood pressure that died this week two weeks after her
home birth is Heather Rivera.
Search for stories by first time
mothers who had a homebirth, by
mothers who had their first
home birth on their subsequent baby or for stories
of mothers having subsequent
home births.
: Health Rights Handbook For Maternity Care by Beverley Lawrence Beech Making
Birth Easier by Andrea Robertson Mums On Pregnancy by Justine Roberts and Carrie Longton Confessions
Of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn Amy Spangler's Breastfeeding: A Parent's Guide by Amy Spangler Baby Wisdom: the World's Best Kept Secrets For the First Year
Of Parenting by Deborah Jackson Delivered at
Home by Julia Allison Conception, Pregnancy and
Birth by Miriam Stoppard Working Woman's Pregnancy by Hilary Boyd Mad to Be a
Mother: is There Life After
Birth For Women Today?
Objective: To collect data from a cohort
of women requesting a
home birth and examine the experience and outcome
of pregnancy, the indications for hospital transfer, and the attitudes
of mothers, midwives, and general practitioners.
A randomised controlled trial would be the best way to tackle selection bias
of mothers who plan a
home birth, but a randomised controlled trial in North America is unfeasible given that even in Britain, where
home birth has been an incorporated part
of the healthcare system for some time, and where cooperation is more feasible, a pilot study failed.31 Prospective cohort studies remain the most comprehensive instruments available.
«Kenneth C Johnson and Betty - Anne Daviss's Outcomes
of planned
home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America, BMJ 2005; 330:1416 (18 June), found that the outcomes
of planned homebirths for low risk
mothers were the same as the outcomes
of planned hospital
births for low risk
mothers, with a significantly lower incident
of interventions in the homebirth group.»
Someone, probably, will say seriously, that it's ONLY the homebirth midwives who are respecting a woman's right to a vaginal breech, twin, or post dates
birth at
home, and HER right to the lower rate
of intervention at
home trumps the mythical rights
of the baby, and that since it's the sisters in chains that are taking back a woman's right to physiologic
birth where SHE wants it that IF there is an increased risk to the baby it's the
mother's right to take that risk.
We have the
mother of baby - bunching experiences... We brought
home our adopted (from Guatemala) daughter at 10 months old in March
of 2008 & I just gave
birth to her brother a month ago.
POTTERAnd that there really isn't evidence to show globally that that is necessary, that we have the third highest Cesarean section rate in the world, that we have 50 percent
of all first - time
mothers being induced in the United States really leads us to question what can we do to integrate some
of the practices that are successful in
home birth into models in hospitals.
«Cesarean section is a major surgical procedure that increases the likelihood
of many complications for
mothers and babies compared to vaginal
birth,» says Dr. Nancy Massotto, HMN's Executive Director who birthed both
of her sons at
home.
Then I started speaking to loads
of other
mothers, who had
home births, and listened carefully to each
of their stories and experiences.
I have recently been so saddened to see
mothers tearing each other apart over all kinds
of mothering choices such as breastfeeding,
home birth vs. hospital
birth, natural eating, sugar or no sugar before a year, extended rear facing vs. turn»em around when it is legal.
Oregon now has the most complete, accurate data
of any US state on outcomes
of births planned to occur in the
mother's
home or an out -
of - hospital
birth center.
Our birthing philosophy is «Kaya mo yan» («You can do it»), words
of encouragement that many laboring
mothers will hear during their
birth at Shiphrah Birthing
Home» (from Shiphrah's website).
A 2014 study that examines nearly 17,000 courses
of midwife - led care confirms that among low - risk women,
home births result in low rates
of interventions without an increase in adverse outcomes for babies and
mothers alike.
Sometime when I'm less tired, I'll figure out how many hours you'd have to log on commercial airlines to add up to the risk
of one
home birth — to
mother or child.
Home visiting to new
mothers after vaginal
birth has shown me lots
of residual
birth trauma that causes significant pain for quite a while.