The empowering things my non-mom friends
said about my home birth more than made up for some of the other comments I heard from time to time.
(insert eye roll) If what
you say about home birth is correct, its a great way to control the population, since according to you, they are dropping like bugs at a bug zapper.
Not exact matches
What makes me happy
about this whole «orgasmic childbirth» thing is that 1) it will open more women's eyes to the benefits of
home birth, and 2) it will, as you
said, create the atmosphere that
birth doesn't necessarily have to be painful.
I was always too busy and sleep - deprived to notice much of what was going on except that, and I was aware of some hostility between my fellow physicians or hospital staffs and the
home birth nursing community and there were also some sort of publically exaggerated, you might
say, conflicts between them but that was really
about as much as I knew
about it.
That book is full of misinformation, for example he cites the Johnson & Daviss study
saying «any remaing doubts
about the safety of
home birth were conclusively erased» by
said study — which isn't even remotely true (the
home birth data from that study actually shows that neonatal mortality is 3 TIMES higher at
home):
I am not disputing that, but there are enough
births that result in death in hospitals by doctors error or not, that it is simplistic and unfair to
say that parents who have their children at
home are negligent and don't care
about their babies.
Josh had called his father and
said they were «thinking
about staying
home» for the
birth and his dad old him to «pray
about it»
Personally, I get prickly
about guys who insist on natural and
home births and who
say it's because of «unnecessary interventions».
-LSB-...] debates
about home birth you probably read some of the news stories that
said that having a
home birth is like driving in a car without a seatbelt.
Here's what they had to
say about why they decided to give
birth at
home:
I also note that they made a lot of exclusions, including quite a number of situations that would have been considered «low risk» for
home birth and that they didn't
say anything
about how often transfer to the hospital occurred.
He
says about 1,000 Missouri women give
birth at
home each year through «this sort of black market.»
Mairi Rothman, a midwife,
said one of the problems with the debate on
home birth is that people aren't talking
about the risks that come with delivering in the hospital.
«He was apprehensive at first,»
said Deedee, who lives with her family in Memphis, Tenn. «Then he did some research
about the pros and cons of
home and hospital
births, and he thought delivering at
home had some very measurable pluses.»
«I'm very concerned
about anyone who may be advocating for
home birth,»
said Dr. Erin Tracy, of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
What you're
saying is that the best people to give information are lay people with no personal experience of
home birth, no professional expertise in obstetrics and midwifery and no thoughts either way
about home birth.
Most people who
say that have not gone over their medical story with someone knowledgable
about home birth, and are simply imagining that
home would have been exactly the same as hospital until the point at which the emergency happened.
That
said, I wouldn't want anyone to take the choice to have a
home birth away from me, and I wouldn't want anyone restricting my ability to learn
about that option.
Women are continuing to choose
home birth,
says Grunebaum (who was himself delivered by a midwife), because, «they are misled with misinformation
about its safety.»
Many women have successful
home births every day, and have nothing but good things to
say about their experiences.
«I truly believe that by sharing these stories we can educate women
about the importance of birthing without fear and helping to change the stigma around
home birth,»
says Tammy.
One indicated staffing issues,
saying: «My picked healing center ward and bordering
birth focus were to a great degree occupied, or so I continued being told on the telephone, which brought
about me having a spontaneous
home birth.»
You probably already know how I'll answer but before you
say yes or no, let's look at what Edmiston includes in her article's «utopian marriage contract» — agreements
about birth control, having / adopting children, how children will be brought up, whose job will determine where and how the couple lives (including separate bedrooms or
homes), how child care and housework will be divvied up, how they will handle finances, and sexual rights and freedoms.
We did a
home study first, not affiliated with an agency, and were getting ready to call agencies when a friend who works at a hospital called us in the middle of the night to
say «there is a young mom who just gave
birth to a healthy baby girl and she is interested in an open adoption and I told her
about you guys.»