If a mother is not receiving prenatal care, she has a much greater
risk of her baby dying than if she is being managed by a physician.
Every labor and delivery carries
the risk of the baby dying, especially if the mother is attended by an incompetent practitioner without adequate backup in case something goes wrong.
Your midwives saw to it that was maintained as well by not warning you that all of the data on homebirth in the US show a 3 - 8x higher
risk of the baby dying in homebirth than in hospital birth.
And it's not like
the risk of a baby dying at homebirth is greater than
the risk of a baby dying in a car accident.
Again, it may be a woman's free right to have her baby at home... but you SHOULD care on some level if exercising HER rights increases
the risk of her baby dying.
When parents place their sweet infant next to them in their bed, with all the pillows, sheets, and blankets, they are really raising
the risk of their baby dying from SIDS.
«Our study highlights the importance of discussing weight loss with obese women prior to pregnancy because losing weight during pregnancy may increase
the risk of her baby dying.
Achieving a healthy weight before becoming pregnant and gaining an appropriate amount of weight during pregnancy significantly reduce
the risk of the baby dying in his or her first year of life, according to new research from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
Not exact matches
Putting many MANY studies together has been done, and going in for a repeat c - section with my fourth
baby knowing that I had a more than 3-fold increased
risk of dying on the table than if I was attempting a vaginal birth after 3 previous c - sections was hard to deal with.
An analysis
of a nationally representative sample
of about 9,000 U.S.
babies found that breastfeeding decreased the
risk of dying from any cause by about 20 percent, the researchers reported.
The
risk of dying in the first six months
of life for
babies who receive infant formula is 14 times higher.
The
babies that
die outside
of a hospital are almost always healthy, low
risk babies.
This woman had the courage to accept that her decision to refuse induction resulted in the death
of her
baby, and she made a point
of countering the «
babies know when to be born / some
babies just bake longer /
babies aren't library books» with «My son
died because he was postdates and I didn't understand the
risks.»
In Oregon,
babies die at the hands
of CPMs at a much higher rate than they do in hospital, comparing low -
risk women.
How many
babies have to
die before homebirth advocates understand that homebirth increases the
risk of perinatal death?
Your
Baby's
Risk of SIDS May Be Linked to the Brain's Serotonin Levels
Babies who
die from sudden infant death syndrome make low amounts
of the message - carrying brain chemical serotonin, needed to regulate sleep, breathing, and heart rate.
Test Leads to Needless C - Sections A 2006 analysis found that fetal heart monitoring failed to reduce the
risk of a
baby's
dying late in pregnancy, during birth, or shortly after birth — and increased cesarean section rates and forceps deliveries, compared with listening to a
baby's heart rate intermittently.
«NCT's own detailed review
of home birth concluded that, although the quality
of comparative evidence on the safety
of home birth is poor, there is no evidence that for women with a low
risk of complications the likelihood
of a
baby dying is any higher if they plan for a home birth compared with planning for a hospital birth.»
TERESA PITMAN: So the Triple
Risk Model has been suggested by a bunch of researchers and what they think is that a baby dies of SIDS when three risk factors come toget
Risk Model has been suggested by a bunch
of researchers and what they think is that a
baby dies of SIDS when three
risk factors come toget
risk factors come together.
«
Babies in the United States have a higher risk of dying during their first month of life than do babies born in 40 other countries, according to a new r
Babies in the United States have a higher
risk of dying during their first month
of life than do
babies born in 40 other countries, according to a new r
babies born in 40 other countries, according to a new report.
«Often the
babies who
died have overheated, because at that high
risk age their thermal regulation system hasn't fully developed and the
baby can't cool down, and they have either been between two adults or even on the end
of the bed with the mother's arm around them.»
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.
What hardly ever gets pointed out, in the «
babies die in hospitals» [faux] argument is that, while, yes,
babies do
die in hospitals, it is after everything possible has been done to save them, whereas in homebirth
babies are put at the utmost
risk of death by not having proper staff / equipment / conditions, etc. to save them.
Guess what else still born
babies are born all the time at hospitasl and
babies, (often born to low
risk mothers)
die all the time, often BECAUSE
of obstetrics interventions not despite them.
No one is claiming that 100 %
of homebirth will end in disaster (if it was the case, humanity would have
died long ago) But you had a higher
risk of dying or losing you
baby.
Women and their
babies are at
risk of dying in hospitals as well.
If I thought there was that big
of a
risk of dying or having my
baby die, I wouldn't get pregnant.
Babies die all the time at homebirth, and the biggest
risk factors lead to the greatest number
of deaths.
If someone believes that their doctors think their
baby will
die, understands the
risks of refusing treatment and still refuses - fine.
If someone if truly informed
of this increased
risk of their
baby or themselves
dying and they feel it is worth it, that is their choice to make.
Healthy, term
babies of low
risk mothers who were alive and well at the start
of labour and
died due to unnecessary interventions during labour, which means a normal labour, progressing without delay or signs
of foetal distress and an OB intervened «just because».
What irritates me most about these people is that it never sinks in that there's a far greater
risk of infant mortality in non-hospital births; they only seem to realize that there's a chance period that the
baby could
die, in the same way that a
baby can
die in any birth.
One
of the big reasons is that it goes along with a failing placenta that puts a
baby at a high
risk of dying of stillbirth before labor even begins.
«as homebirthers we do have to consider the possibility
of baby or mom
dying at home, but the
risk is very low»
Please point us toward the stories about term
babies who were born to low
risk women who had no known problems before birth that all
of a sudden
died in a hospital.
«Yes, as homebirthers we do have to consider the possibility
of baby or mom
dying at home, but the
risk is very low, and much lower than
dying from a staph infection from a hospital.»
Unattended birth and total lack
of prenatal care, on the other hand, quite dramatically increase the
risk that your
baby will
die.
Most low
risk babies that are stillborn or
die at birth,
die as a result
of congenital defects incompatible with life or unexplained stillbirths and would
die no matter where the birth takes place.
Michelle — if you're not scare by a 3 — 4X chance
of your
baby dying (and who knows how many more times
risk of hypoxic brain damage), what made you choose hospital birth?
According to the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide, breastfeeding your newborn
baby reduces her
risk of a number
of health problems, from diarrhea to bacterial meningitis, and it can reduce your
baby's chances
of dying from sudden infant death syndrome.
It may also help explain why the US does comparatively well for perinatal outcomes but very badly in terms
of infant mortality, if massive, high tech, emergency, intervention, which is readily available, has kicked the can down the road, past the neonatal period, but the
baby dies at some later date (and it will be higher
risk for the rest
of infancy, at least, due to prematurity).
All
of these studies profess to count how many
babies supposedly
die at planned attended low
risk homebirth, but none
of them do.
The probability
of a
baby dying from a home birth is approximately twice the probability
of a child
dying in a car accident at any point from birth to age 25, and ten times as high as the
risk of dying in a car accident between birth and age 10.
Part
of the comforting myth that says all «normal» women are low
risk and only those who shouldn't be having children anyway should pay attention to
risk,
babies who
die weren't meant to live and so on and so forth.
We know from the UK Birthplace study that, with fully trained MWs cooperating within the health system, tight
risk - out and 40 % transfer rate, the
babies of first - time mothers still
die at 3X the rate
of similar hospital births (quite aside from hypoxic and physical injury).
I would still take my c - section
babies being actually born alive with a higher
risk of diabetes / obesity / asthma than I would them
dying during birth all day every day.
So continuing to smoke even if you don't breastfeed will increase your
baby's
risk of dying, and breastfeeding itself actually reduces the
risk of SIDS.
Culturally being straight forward for safety is not always accepted but the
risk of a
baby getting hurt or even
dying outweighs all the consequences for me and I will always be found teaching safest and best practice.
Meaning, for every 10,000 births
of low
risk women, there are 6 - 7
babies that
die in the USA during planned, midwife - attended home births that would have lived if the mothers were giving birth at home in the Netherlands.
Maybe we shouldn't put our
babies in cars since they are at a high
risk of dying each time.