Current maternal health programs, such as the distribution of free food and cash incentives for hospital deliveries, do not focus on weight during pregnancy and have little effect
on neonatal mortality.
This data contradicts the claims made based
on neonatal mortality that home birth is not riskier for women who have had babies already.
Not exact matches
Even in a study that plainly reports a 3x
neonatal mortality rate, they manage to gloss over the shocking
mortality rate to focus
on the «positive» birth experience.
The actual numbers
on neonatal morbidity and
mortality.
The latest data from the CDC (available
on the CDC) Wonder website shows that homebirth with a non-nurse midwife has a
neonatal mortality rate more than 7 times HIGHER than low risk hospital birth.
Our analysis focused
on personal details of the clients, reasons for leaving care prenatally, the rates and reasons for transfer to hospital during labour and post partum, medical interventions, health and admission to hospital of the newborn or mother from birth up to six weeks post partum, intrapartum and
neonatal mortality, and breast feeding.
Most studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer
neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal
mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised
on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study
on place of birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and early
neonatal death among other serious morbidity.
I posted the Wisconsin
neonatal mortality statistics in a comment thread
on a Newsweek article about midwifery which quoted Prown, asking why she did not mention that homebirth midwives in Wisconsin had triple the
neonatal death rate of low risk hospital birth.
Could you cite some numbers
on hamster
neonatal mortality to back up your claim?
The CDC begins all its report
on Group B Streptococcus (GBS) proclaiming that «GBS is the most common infectious cause of
neonatal mortality.»
Instead they simply zoomed in
on the tripling of the
neonatal mortality rate.
Personally, I think it's curious how many physicians and mothers - to - be place such a high emphasis
on the 0.11 % risk reduction of
neonatal mortality from hospital births, while thinking nothing of engaging other common practices (i.e. poor dietary habits, overuse of antibiotics, participation in contact sports) that certainly increase their child's lifetime risk of chronic disease, injury, or even death.
The definition of low risk used in the cohort study was based
on criteria contained in the NICE Intrapartum Care Guidelines.11 The primary clinical outcome was a composite measure of adverse perinatal outcomes encompassing perinatal
mortality and specified
neonatal morbidities (box).
Helping Babies Survive is a growing suite of evidence - based, hands -
on programs developed to reduce
neonatal mortality in resource - limited environments.
To address this issue WHO is today launching two new tools to help countries improve their data
on stillbirths and
neonatal deaths as well as a report
on the global status of implementation of maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR), a key strategy for reducing preventable maternal
mortality.
The Sustainable Development Goals include ensuring access by infants to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food (2.1); ending all forms of malnutrition and achieving targets
on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age (2.2); addressing the nutritional needs of lactating women (2.2); reducing
neonatal mortality (3.2); ensuring access to reproductive health - care services (3.7); and recognizing and valuing unpaid care provided by women and girls (5.4).
HBS is suite of evidence - based hands -
on training programs developed by the AAP to reduce
neonatal mortality in resource - limited environments.
«The standard the medical establishment decided
on is to count
neonatal mortality to cover pregnancy thru the first year of a baby's life.»
Interventions to improve the feeding of LBW infants are likely to improve the immediate and longer - term health and well - being of the individual infant and have a significant impact
on neonatal and infant
mortality levels in the population.
On the other hand, for a first time mother with no complications at the start of labor, the Birthplace Study found a nearly 3 x greater risk of intrapartum /
neonatal loss, and the data from the Netherlands suggests that although the rates aren't high enough to affect the overall perinatal
mortality rate, there are greater risks out of hospital if a complication does occur.
They've managed to convince you that «medicalizing» birth is a problem (although it has lowered the
neonatal mortality rate 90 % and the maternal
mortality rate 99 % in the past 100 years) and they've managed to convince the gullible that «trusting» has any impact
on anything.
After your laughable incompetence about what constitutes
neonatal mortality and that you don't even know what meconium is (meaning that you haven't seen it spelled often enough to memorize HOW it's spelled), I call bull
on your «education».
Crude
neonatal mortality rates are
on the left side of the table.
In an analysis based
on actual place of birth rather than planned birth location, they found no significant differences in fetal,
neonatal, or perinatal
mortality between in - hospital and out - of - hospital births.
Effect of early infant feeding practices
on infection - specific
neonatal mortality: an investigation of the causal links with observational data from rural Ghana Karen M Edmond, Betty R Kirkwood, Seeba Amenga - Etego, Seth Owusu - Agyei, and Lisa S Hurt Beginning Breastfeeding From First Day of Life Reduces Infection Related Deaths in Newborns by 2.6 times.
Based
on the most recent 2012 births data, the authors concluded that if home births by midwives continue to grow at the present 10 percent yearly rate, then the excess total
neonatal mortality of home births by midwives would nearly double from about 16 - 17 in 2009 to about 32 in 2016.
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.
The prognosis (outcome) for litters with
neonatal mortality depends
on the cause of death.
Effects of quality improvement in health facilities and community mobilization through women's groups
on maternal,
neonatal and perinatal
mortality in three districts of Malawi: MaiKhanda, a cluster randomized controlled effectiveness trial