Sentences with phrase «risk at a home birth»

Again, with due respect for your loss and suffering, your risk at a home birth was significantly lower because your baby had already passed prior to the onset of labor.

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Obviously if you are high risk you should be in a hospital, but for healthy moms and babies, why not at least have the choice to birth at home!

The largest study of its kind has found that for low - risk women, giving birth at home is as safe as doing so in hospital with a midwife.

Most people that choose to birth at home have only chosen after extensive research and feel that the small risk of a serious complication is preferable to the high rate of intervention in a hospital setting (including the 33 % national caesarean section rate.)

Things like choosing the type of provider, giving birth at home or hospital, which laboratory tests or how many ultrasounds, if any, are necessary, how her labor is monitored, and risks and benefits of any interventions.

Most people that choose to birth at home have chosen this option after extensive research and feel that the small risk of a serious complication is preferable to the high rate of interventions in a hospital setting (including the 33 % national caesarean section rate, 45 % at some local hospitals).

Most people that choose to birth at home have only chosen after extensive research and feel that the small risk of a serious complication is preferable to the high rate of interventions in a hospital setting (including the 33 % national caesarean section rate.)

Birth (just like driving a car) is NEVER without risk, regardless of the location, and a qualified, experienced caregiver mitigates a great deal of the potential risk of giving birth at Birth (just like driving a car) is NEVER without risk, regardless of the location, and a qualified, experienced caregiver mitigates a great deal of the potential risk of giving birth at birth at home.

I think to have a scan to ensure the placenta is away from the birth canal, and to ensure the pregnancy is low - risk is a desirable precaution before proceeeding with birth at home.

Low risk birth in the Netherlands at home with a midwife is more likely to result in a DEAD baby than high risk birth in a hospital with a doctor.

«While most pregnant women who choose to have planned home births are at lower risk of complications due to careful screening, planned home births are associated with double to triple the risk of infant death than are planned hospital births.

Explain that if they plan birth at home there is a small increase in the risk of an adverse outcome for the baby.

After the traumatic hospital births, which were physically damaging to my mother and life risking to my brothers, and after the cold way the hospitals handled her miscarriages, it was a beautiful relief for her to experience such an easy birth at home without complication, with less pain and more beauty for mother and child, and for their family, too.

1.1.2 Explain to both multiparous and nulliparous women that they may choose any birth setting (home, freestanding midwifery unit, alongside midwifery unit or obstetric unit), and support them in their choice of setting wherever they choose to give birth: Advise low ‑ risk multiparous women that planning to give birth at home or in a midwifery ‑ led unit (freestanding or alongside) is particularly suitable for them because the rate of interventions is lower and the outcome for the baby is no different compared with an obstetric unit.

I, the undersigned, recognize the following risks of giving birth at home.

Ms Shapiro has been a home birth advocate for years and still didn't appear to know the profound risks of twin delivery at home.

Low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour with planned home birth had lower rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta than those with planned hospital birth.

Through the experiences of these women, both at home and in the hospital, we gain unique insights into risk, safety, and the experience of home birth childbirth in America.

Our midwives would not take the risk of a home birth at our off - the - grid homestead, nor did we feel entirely comfortable with the idea, so we decided rent a house in town for our birth.

There is a risk involved with a birth at home or at the hospital, especially considering the access to such equipment often means it is overused.

Home births are not for at - risk births, which good prenatal care identifies, so the equipment you mention is not necessary.

«The sheer magnitude of numbers in de Jonge et al. — over half a million midwife - attended low - risk births, either at home or in the hospital — combined with a true comparison group (low - risk, women who chose hospital birth but could have chosen a home birth; both home and hospital groups, attended by the same group of midwives) makes this a valuable study (Freeze, 2010, p 8).»

Home birth families are generally quite aware that hospitals are full of germs, sick people, and put them at risk for poor outcomes simply because they walked through the door, but there isn't much discussion about going beyond birthing in your own to germs, to making a concerted effort to birth in a green environment.

The program was started to help high - risk women who were giving birth at Highland Park Hospital and includes bilingual support, home visits and parent education groups.

Women who planned a home birth were at reduced risk of all obstetric interventions assessed and were at similar or reduced risk of adverse maternal outcomes compared with women who planned to give birth in hospital accompanied by a midwife or physician.

I wish everyone with low risk pregnancies could give birth at home because it was such an awesome experience that I will do it for every subsequent pregnancy that i can.

Official figures show there is a very slight risk increase of a poor outcome for women having their first baby at home - from five in 1,000 for a hospital birth to nine in 1,000 - almost 1 % - for a home birth.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

[Midwife] has informed me of the statistical risks of giving birth at home based on her understanding and research.

Intrapartum and neonatal death at 0 — 7 days was observed in 0.15 % of planned home compared with 0.18 % in planned hospital births (crude relative risk 0.80, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.71 — 0.91).

Previous surgery — If you've had a C - section before or other uterine surgery, you may be at a higher risk of complications and a home birth might not be the best option

Conclusions: Low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour with planned home birth had lower rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta than those with planned hospital birth.

If parents don't want their sons circumcised they don't have to risk their unborn's life by giving birth at home, they can just not sign the form authorizing the procedure.

I stand by my assertion that the vast majority of women would choose to give birth in a hospital if they could not find a midwife willing to deliver high risk patients at home.

For healthy nulliparous women with a low risk pregnancy, the risk of an adverse perinatal outcome seems to be higher for planned births at home, and the intrapartum transfer rate is high in all settings other than an obstetric unit

Also, after proving at the 95 % confidence level that there is increased risk for the baby, their very last sentence ends with, «however, there may be some increased risk for infants among births that occur in the home.»

The target sample size was at least 57000 women overall: 17000 planned home births, 5000 planned alongside midwifery unit births, 5000 planned freestanding midwifery unit births, and 30000 planned obstetric unit births (of which we estimated 20000 would be low risk).

But it wasn't safer than a hospital birth, at least not if the definition of safety is was your baby more at risk of dying because she was born at home.

For healthy multiparous women with a low risk pregnancy, there are no differences in adverse perinatal outcomes between planned births at home or in a midwifery unit compared with planned births in an obstetric unit

I'm still annoyed at the argument that it's wrong to scare the poor first time moms with the fact that they are at increased risk in home birth.

If something is considered too high - risk for a birth center, the provider shouldn't try to handle it at home.

For nulliparous women, there is some evidence that planning birth at home is associated with a higher risk of an adverse perinatal outcome.

Would you advocate for licencure and medically attended births at home for low risk births?

They know the risks and the rewards of childbirth at home and choose to give birth at home.

We compared medical intervention rates for the planned home births with data from birth certificates for all 3 360 868 singleton, vertex births at 37 weeks or more gestation in the United States in 2000, as reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, 10 which acted as a proxy for a comparable low risk group.

Most studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study on place of birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.

Researchers reported high overall perinatal mortality in a study of home birth in Australia, 35 qualifying that low risk home births in Australia had good outcomes but that high risk births gave rise to a high rate of avoidable death at home.36 Two prospective studies in North America found positive outcomes for home birth, 23 24 but the studies were not of sufficient size to provide relatively stable perinatal death rates.

Do you make distinctions, George, between risky at - home births, like the case in Virginia, and low - risk pregnancies?

Someone, probably, will say seriously, that it's ONLY the homebirth midwives who are respecting a woman's right to a vaginal breech, twin, or post dates birth at home, and HER right to the lower rate of intervention at home trumps the mythical rights of the baby, and that since it's the sisters in chains that are taking back a woman's right to physiologic birth where SHE wants it that IF there is an increased risk to the baby it's the mother's right to take that risk.

Furthermore... people don't turn into fools and trust midwives because midwives tell them they should fear the hospital... many of them acknowledge that there are plenty of valid reasons to birth in a hospital, and that only low risk women should birth at home.