Sentences with phrase «other than a hospital birth»

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Catholic hospitals MUST be held to the same standards as other hospitals in the USA, that means if they must offer other options including birth control, or morning after pill than so be it.

«The birth I had at the Birth Place was far, far different (than her three other hospital birbirth I had at the Birth Place was far, far different (than her three other hospital birBirth Place was far, far different (than her three other hospital births).

At Advocate, the first hospital in the area to feed low birth weight babies and others at risk for the condition exclusively with breast milk, NEC is down by more than half, said Jeffrey George, hospital director of neonatology.

And most of all, because there are NO guarantees, one way or the other - the numbers on safety and well being with home births are better than those in the hospital.

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

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 vast majority of births in Ireland take place in hospital, either in a dedicated maternity hospital or in the maternity unit of an acute hospital, but some women choose to have their baby at home and others choose a more low - tech approach in which they are cared for primarily by midwives rather than obstetricians.

The vast majority of births in Ireland take place in hospital, either in a dedicated maternity hospital or in the maternity unit of an acute hospital, but some women choose to have their baby at home and others choose a more low - tech approach such as a birth centre or a midwifery led unit in which they are cared for primarily by midwives rather than obstetricians.

In other words, I would not conclude that C - SECTION «dramatically decreases», because it would seem that MORE babies have brain injuries with c - sections than hospital births.

Homebirth is very different than hospital birth — people do not come and wait in the other room until the baby is born.

It seems that the rates reported in this database for low - risk pregnancies (excluding malpresentation and other factors) are all as good as or better in every category other than intrapartum death rate of babies, which I am having a hard time finding in the other literature on hospital births in the U.S. for low - risk, white women.

Although nonhospital births (births that occur in a home, free - standing birth center, or other location that is not inside or attached to a hospital) account for less than 2 % of births in the United States, they have substantially increased since 2004.

Premature babies tend to stay longer at the hospital than other right - timed babies and may face some or the other kind of health concern in the initial few days after birth.

Results: Newborns delivered by other midwives or certified nurse midwives (CNMs) in a birthing center or at home had a significantly higher likelihood of a 5 min maximum Apgar score of 10 than those delivered in a hospital [52.63 % in birthing centers, odds ratio (OR) 29.19, 95 % confidence interval (CI): 28.29 — 30.06, and 52.44 % at home, OR 28.95, 95 % CI: 28.40 — 29.50; CNMs: 16.43 % in birthing centers, OR 5.16, 95 % CI: 4.99 — 5.34, and 36.9 % at home births, OR 15.29, 95 % CI: 14.85 — 15.73].

In other words, the death rate at homebirth is 450 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth.

Many women around the world still do not have access to hospital birth and have no other option than to give birth with an unskilled birth attendant.

That is, I agree entirely with the need for choice to be preserved, and I agree totally that the AMA should be taken to task for suggesting that anything other than a hospital or other medically - supported birth is dangerous.

It is our opinion that any birth environment, home or hospital, that is ill - equipped to manage an obstetrical emergency is a dangerous place for any woman to birth her baby, as uterine rupture in physiologic birth is no more likely than any other obstetrical emergency any maternity center may face.

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.

There are a host of medical reasons and conditions that can prevent you from giving birth anywhere other than in a hospital.

Cobedding of twins and other infants of multiple gestation is a frequent practice, both in the hospital setting and at home.174 However, the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples have not been established.175, — , 177 Twins and higher - order multiples are often born prematurely and with low birth weight, so they are at increased risk of SIDS.101, 102 Furthermore, there is increased potential for overheating and rebreathing while cobedding, and size discordance might increase the risk of accidental suffocation.176 Most cobedded twins are placed on their sides rather than supine.174 Finally, cobedding of twins and higher - order multiples in the hospital setting might encourage parents to continue this practice at home.176 Because the evidence for the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples is not compelling and because of the increased risk of SIDS and suffocation, the AAP believes that it is prudent to provide separate sleep areas for these infants to decrease the risk of SIDS and accidental suffocation.

There are more than half a dozen other studies from several countries that have found home birth to be as safe as hospital birth (a very low standard considering how dangerous hospital birth sometimes is.)

Know the requirements in your state regarding births that occur in locations other than in hospitals.

We deliver more babies each year at the Shawnee Mission Birth Center than any other hospital in the metropolitan area and our Center for Women's Health is nationally recognized.