On a personal note, I'm sure I speak for many families when I say that I am beyond grateful for the sacrifices you and your family have made to make
safe home birth an option, and it was a privilege to have you attend the birth of our children!
Not exact matches
All of these are
options are
safe choices, so why is the American Medical Association (AMA) trying to outlaw
home birth?
Home Birth Home Birth is rapidly gaining popularity as parents learn that it is a
safe and reasonable
option for low risk pregnancies with trained midwives.
There are a lot of things people don't realize happen during
home births, that can make a planned
home birth a
safe (and often, wonderful)
option for birthing moms.
Women and men who choose to
birth at
home, do so today because they believe it to be the
safest option (Boucher et al, 2007).
While not everyone will have access to a
birth center or a
home birth because of where you live or because of medical conditions, these are potentially
safe options for low - risk women with qualified providers.
... [F] or low - risk women with a skilled midwife in attendance,
home birth is a
safe option for newborns with lower rates of interventions and complications for mothers.
Unfortunately, a number of research articles that failed to make this distinctive are used by ACOG to oppose
home birth as a
safe option.
First time
births are recommended to happen in a hospital, as this is the
safest option for the baby, however if you have given
birth before without issues then a
home birth is just as
safe.
Despite a wealth of evidence supporting planned
home birth as a
safe option for women with low risk pregnancies, 1 — 4 the setting remains controversial in most high resource countries.
They do because they found out before they were pregnant that
home birth is a
safe free
option available to them from the HSE, and they do because someone supported them in their choice.
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The process is much
safe than it was in times past, making the
option for a
home birth or water
birth completely
safe, provided both mother and baby are in good health and strong.
So it seems that
home -
births ARE a great and
safe option for well educated, healthy, wealthy, mothers who live in affluent societies with good infrastructure.
Birth centers were no riskier than hospitals for first - time moms, and all options (including home) appeared equally safe for women who had given birth be
Birth centers were no riskier than hospitals for first - time moms, and all
options (including
home) appeared equally
safe for women who had given
birth be
birth before.
Our understanding of childbirth and the anatomy of the pregnant woman have only expanded, giving an increasing number of women another new
option: a
safe, well - planned
home birth.
The truth of the matter is, women have different surges of labor and because we are not equally endowed to live in close proximities to hospitals and health centers, it therefore holds that a
home birth is one of the
safest options for women who experience fast labor.
Agreeing with that notion, Declercq argued that it is the lack of such a setup that keeps
safer home births from being a bigger
option in the United States.
Naturally, she feels that
home births are a beautiful, healthy, and
safe option for all moms.
Others, however, argue that
home births can be a
safe option, noting that most homebirth midwives have a backup ob - gyn or hospital to go to in the case of an emergency.
She stressed that
home birth is only a
safe option for healthy mothers who are not expected to have complications.
They know that birthing at
home or in a
birth center with a trained midwife is a very
safe option with lower rates of interventions and high patient satisfaction but now you no longer have to search and search for studies regarding homebirth which are often buried by cultural anecdotes and message boards.
Unfortunately, in the USA, for various reasons
home birth is not a
safe enough
option.
I support
home birth when it is a
safe option for women.
Instead of uselessly trying to force your hand, why don't you advocate for making
safer options to those who are seeking
home birth and / or midwifery?
Home birth is the
safest option in normal, healthy pregnancies.
She believes women deserve the
option to
birth at
home in a
safe and supportive environment.
Planned
home births have proved to be a
safe option for healthy women having an uncomplicated pregnancy.
Naturally, it's occurred to me over the past 30 years that many women could have more
safe and satisfying outcomes through an out - of - hospital
birth experience but it didn't occur to me until that moment to consider
home and / or out - of - hospital
birth as a MAJOR
option.
However, our study suggests that for a healthy woman with a single, head - down, full - term baby, planned
home birth with a midwife can be a
safe option.»
«This research tells us that, for low - risk women, a planned
home birth with a midwife in the U.S. can be a
safe option,» said Cheyney.
The World Health Organization, the American Public Health Association and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (in the UK) all support
home birth as a
safe birth choice, yet some states in the US make this
option difficult or impossible for women, despite evidence of its safety.
Logically, I knew that
home birth can be statistically as
safe as hospital
birth in most cases and that statistically, it would be a good
option for us, but after having undetected placenta previa with a previous pregnancy, I always held on to a fear that something might be wrong that we didn't know about or that my body was somehow broken or inadequate.
You could also be a former pre-med student and do lots of research and dive head first into studies and medical literature to make the determination that
home birth is the
safest and best
option for you and your baby.
For her and her husband Tim,
home birth was determined to be the
safest option for their family after research and discussion.
Some of the wisdom that Kathryn drops on the show includes the primal nature of
birth, the believe that
birth just works and that
home birth is a
safe and viable
options for low risk mamas out there.