Not exact matches
Some
home birth midwives do care for twin pregnancies, but delivering twins
at home is
risky.
But even though it has been shown again and again to be more
risky, Dr. Amy has repeatedly stated that it should be legal to
birth at home and that she would never outlaw it even if she could.
I thought that
home birth was inherently
risky, even when candidates are properly screened and transported, simply because some complications occur without warning and can't be treated adequately
at home, or are more difficult to detect outside of a hospital.
Do you make distinctions, George, between
risky at -
home births, like the case in Virginia, and low - risk pregnancies?
Home birth would probably be
at least 10 times
riskier than driving
I never said a baby can't be delivered
at home, what I'm saying is that it is
risky business because labour and
birth are not always predictable.
All out of hospital
birth is always going to result in more dead babies than in hospital
birth simply for the lack of immediate access to an operating room, but
home birth with a CNM tends to only be about twice as
risky, whereas, thanks to these numbers from MANA, we know that using a CPM makes it
at least 4.5 times
riskier.
While other developed nations have turned their backs on a practice deemed old - fashioned and
risky, giving
birth at home with a midwife in attendance is considered the norm here, with one - third of all babies born this way.
I've always used a group of CNMs
at a hospital and stories like these have helped me to see how I'm good where I'm
at and a
home birth is just too
risky.