To admit that homebirth led to
the preventable death of the baby is to admit that they weren't educated at all; that rather than being special for choosing homebirth, they've marked themselves as gullible and selfish.
According to a recent piece in The Washington Post, certified professional midwife Karen Carr boasted in the wake of her guilty plea in connection with the entirely
preventable death of a baby in her care, her phone is ringing off the hook with women wanting to hire her.
Not exact matches
But I am also aware that every year, hundreds
of thousands
of women and
babies experience no such reprieve from the
preventable death sentence imposed when labour goes wrong and there is not even the most basic health care available to ease their suffering and save their lives.
Generally, hospitals don't do investigations on the
death of trisomy
babies, yet more than 20
babies are considered to have died
PREVENTABLE deaths in this single particular hospital under midwife - led care.
No, I am a hater
of letting
babies die
preventable deaths for no better reason than bragging rights.
I think clowns like Gaskin who award themselves the title
of midwife and let
babies die
preventable deaths are the lowest form
of evil.
The latest needless, senseless, utterly predictable and totally
preventable homebirth
death is currently being discussed on the Birth Without Fear Facebook Page, which links to the original story and a picture
of a beautiful
baby who looks to be sleeping but who is actually dead.
A birth criminal is a midwife who ignores the growing pile
of tiny bodies,
babies who died
preventable deaths as a result
of her direct or indirect professional actions.
At an excess rate
of neonatal mortality
of 9/1000, we could expect that 630
babies would die from
preventable neonatal
deaths each year.
The overwhelming priority is letting «birth junkies» pretend to be midwives and if the
babies of trusting women die
preventable deaths in the process, so be it.
The mounting
death toll
of midwife attended
preventable neonatal
deaths and
preventable maternal
deaths demonstrates that efforts to promote normal birth kill
babies and mothers.
These
preventable deaths have been on the rise, claiming the lives
of almost 1,000
babies a year in the United States.
Yet those same odds — 2 out
of 100 - apply to the
death of your
baby from
preventable homebirth issues, and you think the risk is really low.
No amount
of bleating that «sometimes
babies die» justifies increasing the risk
of preventable neonatal
death.
Road related injuries are the leading cause
of preventable death and injuries to
babies in the US