Ethics dictate that all healthcare providers should respect the autonomy of individuals to make their own informed decisions, and this study provides further information about the risks and benefits of
planned home birth so that families can make those decisions with the information available.
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.
Not exact matches
I guess I'm not a real big fan of
home births, but that might be because I've never had a kid, and I
plan on going to nursing school
so I tend to side with the more traditional western medicine.
She wasn't concerned about the health of the baby or me,
so she was fine with keeping the same
plan of having a
home birth until I reached 42 weeks.
Second time around with my son i
planned a
home birth and it all happened very quickly
so my midwife actually missed the
birth by seconds which meant we had a completely undisturbed
birth again, my husband caught him, my body did what it had to do, both
births were amazing and very calm.
Planned home birth ending in hospital transfer should be its own category,
so we can stop arguing about transfers screwing up the statistics either way.
I really do not care if a woman wants to squat out a baby in the comfort of her
home — I care that she is doing
so as an act of informed free will and that she has been apprised of the risks of doing
so (including the risks of 3 times or more the mortality rate for her baby compared to hospital
birth and the risks of
planned vaginal delivery in general).
In this instance, how far you live from a hospital can make an enormous difference,
so it is worth considering this as a safety aspect before you
plan a
home birth.
My son was born by emergency caesarean section (
so much for the
home birth I had
planned!)
As time went on, and she learned more about the natural birthing process and the current state of maternity care (as well as reflecting on her unmedicated hospital
birth experience), she knew that she would not want to
birth another child in the hospital,
so as she and her husband Matt looked forward to conceiving their second child she had already decided on hiring a licensed midwife and
planning to
birth at
home.
A
home birth was not an option for us to begin with,
so we had to stick to our
plan because, well, that was the only
plan that was going to safely work for me and my baby.
If
so, this self selection may have resulted in better outcomes among women with
planned home birth.
«Women with
planned home birth had lower rates of all adverse maternal outcomes, albeit not significantly
so for nulliparous women.»
My first baby was nearly born at
home, although it wasn't the
plan at all,
so a
home birth appeared as an interesting option when I got pregnant with my second.
In
planning a
home birth, my primary focus was not actually avoiding a C - section
so much because of the above reasons (I wasn't aware of these at the time).
I felt
so confident in my ability to grow one child and
so comfortable with my
home birth plan and in one second I felt like I was in thrust into a whole different galaxy.
I really felt like we were making an educated decision that was best for us,
so we decided to
plan for our
home -
birth!
I felt a tremendous wave of fear, frustration, and loss that evening as it was seriously considered for the first time that the
home birth we had worked
so hard to
plan may not come to be.
Even though my second baby's
birth happened at
home on accident, I
so enjoyed the experience that I
planned my third
birth at
home.
Breastfeeding doesn't come easy for everyone
so we recommend
planning ahead and scheduling your first in -
home visit as soon as you give
birth or shortly after.
I ended up having a c - section, a
birth so very far off from my
planned home birth, due to a footling breech baby, and Crystal helped me rationalize and be OK with how my
birth story ended.
So it is very important to
plan your
birth whether you are going to give
birth at the hospital or at
home.
A total of 75,923 women (95.2 %)
planned to deliver in the hospital and did
so, 3203 women (4.0 %) chose and completed out - of - hospital
birth (1968 at
home and 1235 at a
birth center), and 601 women (0.8 %)
planned out - of - hospital
birth but delivered in the hospital after intrapartum transfer.
I'm married to an anesthesiologist,
so home birth is out of the
plan.
My husband and I have a compromise list — he has a horrible feeling about
home birth but can accept a midwife is a trained professional and natural
birth plan has benefits
so the hospital just in case of emergency is our compromise.
Fulfilling my hope for a
planned home birth brought
so much of my childbearing experiences full circle.
So a team of Dutch researchers decided to test whether low risk women at the onset of labour with
planned home birth have a higher rate of rare but severe outcomes (known as severe acute maternal morbidity or SAMM) than those with
planned hospital
births.
So some 3 1/2 years later when I was pregnant with my son and
planning a
home birth, we looked up Rosie and signed her up!
SMMIS contains over 500,000 observations,
so even though fewer than 2 % had a
planned home birth, the absolute number of
planned home births was large enough to give reasonable power to statistical tests.
The relative safety of
planned home births is a topic of continuous debate, but studies have
so far been too small to compare severe maternal complications between
planned home and
planned hospital
birth among low risk women.
In the UK, even if a
home birth is
planned, a pregnant woman receives maternity care from health care professionals who are based at an individual hospital,
so the hospital records included
planned home births as well as
planned hospital
births.
And we
planned to have a water
birth so we had it in a tub and over
home birth surprise ready and set aside for this
birth.
The reaction is
so funny when I talk with people about my
planned home birth.
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Even though I'd already
planned a
home birth and given
birth, I learned
so much!
Of the women who
planned to give
birth at
home, 2285 (78.8 %) did
so.
If the mother is
planning a
home birth, be sure to visit the backup hospital
so that you won't be confused if a transfer to the hospital becomes necessary.
My eldest was born in Israel, and the experience was
so AWFUL that 3 of my next 4 were born in
planned home births.
Jennifer, thank you
so much for sharing your thoughts and your story, and for taking the time to review and highlight the recent research on
planned home birth.
So, they used the same midwives as Auntie Tammy and
planned their own
home birth!
I'm
planning on trying to stay
home as long as possible before going to the hospital lol I am absolutely terrified of giving
birth so I'm hoping this could still help!
So this is our first «before and after» style interview where we're talking to a mom who is actively
planning and preparing for her
home birth (her first!).
Jennifer lives a vegan lifestyle and
so we were super curious about how that has played into her pregnancy and
home birth planning.
So already Christie's story is an amazing one -
planning a
home birth and also representing the community of women and families who experience pregnancies and
births often without spouses or other family present because of active military duty.
I love our
birth story & I'm
so grateful to have had the opportunity to
plan & prepare for a
home birth, even if it didn't work out that way.
When you're
planning a
home birth, there really isn't another option
so the thought to use pain medication never even crossed my mind.
I am
planning to have a water
birth at
home for my third baby, if I am
so blessed to have more children.
Foster Parents may go into foster care as a «concurrent
planning»
home so they would adopt that child if the
birth parent's rights are terminated.