Possibly this northern Indiana neonatologist was from that region, but either way, a neonatal intensive care unit could not financially sustain itself on the admissions of
only babies born at home, even if every single one was admitted in his county.
Not exact matches
Dr Shearer 1985: «When I started in general practice in 1954 about a third of all
babies were
born at home, and
only women with problems and a few primiparas were able to book a bed in the local hospital, St John's Chelmsford.
My
baby boy, the biggest of my three children, was
born peacefully
at home in water,
only 19 months after I'd had a traumatic cesarean.
When
born at home, not
only does my
baby remain with me but it can sleep upon organic bedding products and will
only be bathed in products I approve.
Natalie Ainge, Saltaire, Bradford, UK Photo: Natalie & Bruce My
baby boy, the biggest of my three children, was
born peacefully
at home in water,
only 19 months after I'd had a traumatic cesarean.
Let's give a little context to what these numbers mean: for every 10,000
babies born at home in the Netherlands,
only 6 - 7
babies will die; for every 10,000
babies born at home in the USA, 17 - 18
babies will die.
(early neonatal death means the
baby was
born alive but died sometime in the first seven days), a
baby is three times more likely to die
at a
home birth in the USA with a mortality rate of 1.71 / 1000 versus
only 0.64 / 1000
babies dying in the Netherlands.