Research on the comparative safety of different birth settings tends to exclude «high - risk» pregnancy; conventional wisdom states that women with «high - risk» pregnancies should
plan a hospital birth because they are at higher risk of negative pregnancy outcomes.
Not exact matches
Another lengthy scan with very little discussion between the technician and us, again our worrying about our being steamrolled into a management
plan without through evaluation of the risks and benefits, or being essentially pushed into a
hospital birth because it would be best for the baby but also mean that I would not have the option of birthing vaginally was all a little more than my tear ducts could bear.
I've experienced a
planned hospital birth, a
planned homebirth that ended with an induced
hospital birth (and a month - early preemie)
because of pre-eclampsia, and two homebirths.
while being coerced to push even though I wanted to breath the babies down, I didn't get to see them at all for 15 hours after they were born
because the
hospital staff didn't get their act together, not
because it was medically necessary, etc., so much so that the head of OB (my office doc) later admitted they had me on suicide watch
because what happened was so different than my
birth plan... I wasn't stuck on exact details, especially
because twins throw a loop in all of it, but it was nothing like I had hoped for, at all.
This is
because the vast majority of stillbirths delivered in the
hospital are known to be antepartum and not intrapartum.29, 30, 31 On the other hand, in out - of -
hospital settings, most antepartum deaths in
planned home
births would be transferred to the
hospital.
We might also find a number of babies who had lethal congenital anomalies, who would not have survived no matter where they were born or who attended the
birth; there may be important differences between home and
hospital populations with regard to whether these anomalies were detected prenatally and whether parents changed their
birth plans because of it.
I am
planning a home
birth so if I do end up in
hospital its
because I absolutely have to be there or its an emergency situation where a C - section is called for I going to be meeting those people pretty much for the first time [laughs] and I don't know what they are, how receptive they would to something like this, so you know there are certain things you think might be easier to ask for verses asking of all of this things, perhaps you know, maybe it doesn't have to be all or nothing but I don't know are there certain things that you think might be good for me to ask for in lieu of asking for everything.
I was so worried
because I had heard all these awful stories about how the
hospital staff really doesn't care about
birth plans.
I
planned a second
hospital birth because setting up for a home
birth sounded stressful (and a tupperware storage bin as
birth pool frankly sounded like a special kind of hell) while going to the
hospital for three days sounded a lot like a vacation.
I had a natural
birth plan and thought that it would be followed in
hospital, but I was just told that a lot of things had to be done
because it was»
hospital policy» to do them, whether I liked them or not... My baby ended up in distress and I had an emergency C - section.
And later when I asked if we could discuss a
birth plan, she laughed and said that at the
hospital, they joked whenever a woman came to them with a
birth plan, they signed them up for a C - section right away
because invariably, things went wrong.
Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home
birth but delivering in
hospital were even more difficult to obtain
because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to
hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all
planned home
births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home
birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of
plan.
Home
birth is uncommon in the United Kingdom and uncertainty exists about its safety.1 2 Almost all mortality figures available nationally1 provide merely a single global figure for
planned and unplanned home
births, though the constituent rates differ greatly.3 The only recent figures for
planned home
birth in England and Wales relating to 19794 and 19935 provide an inaccurately low estimate of risk
because it was not possible to account for those mothers who originally booked to have a home delivery but ended up delivering in
hospital.
So I really encourage families to make their wishes known that you want baby on your chest at least for the first hour
because that's when they're most active and most likely to latch on immediately to your breast and that's the best time for you to again smell your baby, bond with your baby, it's regulate your baby's temperature and perhaps even make it part of your
birth plan to not bathe that baby at all at the
hospital.
It was a welcome interlude to the chaos that had yet to come,
because as soon as I got to the
hospital, my
birth plan — of free movement, low chemical interventions, non-neon light — went out the window.
It could be argued that unplanned home
births are similar to
planned home
births which were transferred to
hospital during labour (
because birth did not take place in the intended location), and that not getting to
hospital in time is a risk of
planning a
hospital birth, and for this reason we have run the analysis both with and without unplanned home
births (see «results» section).
This is
because these factors may act as mediators and may explain the difference between home and
hospital birth, and therefore holding them constant would have led to controlling for the effect of
planned place of
birth on PPH.
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The incidence of PPH for
planned hospital births would be expected to be higher than the incidence for
planned home
births,
because nulliparous women are more likely to experience PPH (see Table 2), and are also more likely to
plan a
hospital birth [28].
The home
birth group was similar to the group who had a
planned hospital birth attended by a physician (physician comparison group) in age, lone parent status, income quintile and parity
because of the matching process (Table 1).
Because I was working very hard to believe in my
planned home
birth, I hadn't packed a
hospital bag.
Because both home and
hospital births were attended by the same cohort of midwives, we were able to conduct a true comparison of
planned place of
birth unconfounded by type of caregiver.
All analyses were based on the
planned rather than the actual place of
birth because referral to
hospital during labour is usually indicative of anticipated or existing problems.
I was at the
hospital less than an hour before she was born,
because I knew I needed to wait as long as possible before going in to be able to stick to the
birth plan.
Not only is this unfortunate
because of a lack of people to share experiences /
plans with, but the result also is that more time is spent on preparing for a
hospital birth than on the details of what it's like to be preparing for a
planned home
birth.