I;d change hospitals even, but I'd never
see home birth as the answer.
Yet the Cumberlege report
sees home birth as a real option, 1 and the wishes of women to have home births must be viewed in that light.
She added: «We should be aiming to
see home births at the levels of the 1960s when a third of women had their babies in their homes.»
«I suspect consumers are becoming more informed... and
seeing home births are a safe alternative for healthy women with a qualified provider.»
It was also the first time I had
seen a home birth, and I was hooked.
Have you ever had a home birth or been there to
see a home birth?
Neither of us had
seen a home birth, we didn't know much about them, and (until we started asking around) we didn't know anyone who had even done one.
Not exact matches
I
see homicidal lunatics planting bombs in clinics that offer
birth control and breast cancer screening, or shooting doctors in their
homes and churches for offering a legal medical service.
Playing Arsenal has always been horrendous... Being a south Londoner by
birth, there were seasons when I
saw Everton away a lot more than when I
saw them at
home.
My daughter our 2nd was born at
home in a planned vaginal frank breech
home birth with an experienced CPM in NC (not legal here alas) that I had
seen my entire pregnancy.
Being tired, losing a job,
seeing birth, feeling rejected when he was a stay at
home dad 11 years ago.
I attended a
home birth and it was so much nicer than any hospital
birth I have ever
seen or heard about.
I live in Canada and midwifery care and
home births are very accessible — I'd hate to
see it any other way.
And they spoke of
home birth as if it was child abuse and didn't
see the beauty of Ricki Lake's film (which was so powerful!).
First of all, I've been trying to get them to acknowledge a claim (just acknowledge it, not even pay it) for Julian's
home birth since, hmmm, let's
see, probably January 2007.
I hope that your blog has enlightened others and perhaps we will
see a resugence of
home births.
I am an absolute advocate of
home births and if you read my previous comments you will
see that I delivered all of my children at
home, WITH a skilled midwife.
You
see, my water broke at 27 1/2 weeks while we were vacationing in the Caribbean, and our plans for an undisturbed
home birth went gushing out with it.
Note that if you have a hospital or
birth center
birth, the place is likely legally required to
see you have a car seat before you can leave (even if you plan to take transit
home!)
While I was fortunate to have a «textbook»
home birth, so many of my friends and family experienced traumatic
births and I
saw a real need to do this work.
Throughout my pregnancy Michael and I had been
seeing just the one midwife so we felt very relaxed and comfortable with her and were looking forward to having her and my sister around for the
birth at
home.
So I don't
see any hospital deaths that could be prevented by a
home birth.
I
saw how much love their
birth families had for them even though the families were unable to provide a forever
home for the boys.
It usually didn't; with one exception all the
home births I did went swimmingly, but having
seen, over the years, in hospital, all the varieties of complications, you can not pretend that it can't happen.
Midwives of WA Spring Conference: Michael Klein, MD, Part 1: Midwives and
Home Birth in British Columbia — History and Outcomes, Part 2: Confusion on the Maternity Floor: How Can We
See Birth So Differently?
Healing «down there» After giving
birth your baby will be
seen at the pediatrician's office the day after you get
home, a week after that and the week after that.
The physician's comment «
Home births scare me witless, because I've
seen a normal delivery turn to disaster in a heartbeat.»
I've personally
seen a baby that developed Group B strep meningitis after a
home birth.
Lactation Support & Counseling Hospital /
Home Birth Lactation Services After Delivery: I can come to
see you after you've delivered your baby to ensure a good start with breastfeeding.
I remember visiting
home one year and
seeing my brother and sister - in - law, about 6 months after giving
birth and the color was gone from their faces.
Here is your chance to meet the midwives and
see if midwifery and
home birth is for you!
If multiple strong, well - done studies came out and showed that
home birth under a specific set of circumstances was exactly as safe as a hospital
birth, you would
see people here change their minds and support that.
I don't like hospitals or dr.s at all, and can
see the allure of a
home birth.
If she
sees a problem with
home birth, than make homebirth better.
I am fairly certain I remember
seeing a HALO Bassinet system in every
birth client's
home in the entire year of 2017!
I can
see how more medical care could have saved her, but it's hard for me to picture how exactly having a
home birth would have produced a better outcome.
I know other comments say they can
see why it is appealing to give
birth in the comfort of your own
home, etc, but I've never quite understood that.
The odds of receiving individual interventions (augmentation, epidural or spinal analgesia, general anaesthesia, ventouse or forceps delivery, intrapartum caesarean section, episiotomy, active management of the third stage) were lower in all three non-obstetric unit settings, with the greatest reductions
seen for planned
home and freestanding midwifery unit
births (table 4 ⇓).
I don't
see any way of making
home birth safe enough to be reasonable, at least not until we get teleporter technology or something.
However, I've
seen occasions in which midwives will have a patient planning a
home birth who has GBS and ruptured membranes without labor.
But if Enoch's parents had
seen this before their baby was born, maybe they would have reconsidered
home birth.
Plus I'd
seen a family member who'd had 9
home births all handled extremely well by a midwife, with only one being transferred to the hospital, early in labor.
Some of these people need to
see the reality of
home birth for those people in the world who don't have any other choice.
The mother should be encouraged to
see successful transfer not as a failure of the
home birth but rather as a success of the system
I'd like to
see an effort to assess what makes
home births lead to better outcomes for women, and an attempt to replicate those factors in a hospital setting.
We
see stats on hospital,
birth center, and midwife - attended
home birth, but never unassisted
birth...
One thing I don't
see... when they refer to a hospital
birth attended by a midwife, does that include
births that started at
home and ended up in the hospital?
Your midwife will assess you individually to
see if you are suitable for a
home birth.
A separate scenario — but one that I also struggle with — is when I
see moms desperately seeking midwives in the final days or weeks of their pregnancy to take them on as a
home birth patient just because that's what they want so.
A week or so post-
birth I'll come to your
home for a casual postpartum visit to discuss your
birth experience and
see if I may help in connecting you with any additional resources to help you in your breastfeeding and postpartum mothering journey.