Sentences with phrase «than a hospital birth»

I attended a home birth and it was so much nicer than any hospital birth I have ever seen or heard about.

I have to first admit that I've been a little reticent to post about this, not because I'm not excited about it, but because homebirth in our culture is not seen as a safe or wise choice (though in reality it is as safe or safer than hospital births in most cases — there are a number of studies that indicate as such).

For now, there is not conclusive data that proves home births are any more dangerous than hospital births and carry the 2 - 3 fold neonatal mortality risk.

Several studies have shown that planned homebirth attended by a qualified experienced caregiver is as safe or safer than hospital birth for low - risk women.

In Missouri, the risk of intrapartum death at homebirth is nearly 20 times higher than hospital birth.

The «research» done to try and prove to people that home birth would be more dangerous than hospital birth is usually in favor of hospitals... Why?

There are no studies that demonstrate that homebirth with a US homebirth midwife is less likely to kill or permanently disable either mother or baby than hospital birth under the care of an ob.

With a mortality rate of almost 5x higher than hospital birth, this is not that far off the 6 - 8 times higher we saw for the Oregon data collection, even though the Oregon group almost surely had significantly fewer criteria for risking mothers out (no criteria in some places, I'm sure) as well as lower qualifications for the midwives as CPMs and DEMs.

Home births have a lower risk profile than hospital birth, meaning that mostly low - risk women CHOOSE home birth.

I expect the data to be partial, and very slickly presented to put the best spin on it all [something like «90 + % of homebirths are uncomplicated», not that a certain percentage, much higher than hospital births, result in death or morbidity].

Yeah, it's like the obvious contradiction between «homebirth is completely safe, even safer than hospital birth!

than a hospital birth!

You wrote, «Every study I found said homebirth is safer for low risk woman than hospital birth.

«Home births have a lower risk profile than hospital births, with fewer births to teenagers or unmarried women, and with fewer preterm, low birthweight, and multiple births» (source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db84.htm

They used to say that Homebirth is as safe or safer than Hospital birth.

Home birth is also more economical than a hospital birth, usually costing well under $ 4,000 as compared to a hospital which can cost over $ 10,000.

Yet another study, this one consisting of every birth in The Netherlands over two years, demonstrates that home births are safer than hospital births.

According to BabyCenter, the average cost of a birth - center labor is about a third less than a hospital birth, due to less interventions and a shorter stay.

My personal opinion is that a lot of homebirthing moms are convinced that homebirth is «as safe or safer» than hospital birth, and they expect the hospital staff to affirm that belief.

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.

Homebirth is safe or safer than hospital birth because when you exlude women who midwives shouldn't have taken at all and those who doctors and real miwives couldn't save after homebirth clowns botched deliveries — well, it totally works!

By the way, a great book by another skeptical OBGYN is called «Born in the USA» only he's skeptical of medicalized birth because he's a clinical scientist as well, unlike our author here and he's realized that home birth is safer than hospital birth according to peer - reviewed large scale studies.

Huh, you seem to be claiming above that homebirth is safer than hospital birth... therefore there must be stats comparing the two that exist for you to make these claims.

However, MORE people (per capita) have devastating home birth experiences — ending with dead babies or babies with brain damage or permanent nerve damage — than hospital births.

His book is a tinderbox that will infuriate both the pro-C-section lobbyists (babies born this way are five times more likely to suffer allergies he points out) and the natural birthers (infant death globally between birth and 28 days appears twice as high after planned homebirth than hospital birth).

However, studies show that even in those countries, it's less safe than hospital birth, and it's important that mothers understand that.

Any way you look at it, homebirth is more dangerous for mothers than hospital birth.

Where you've gone wrong is in claiming that home birth is no more risky to the baby's life and brain function than hospital birth is.

They start with a unshakeable belief that homebirth is as safe or safer than hospital birth, and that lay midwives with only a highschool education are adequately trained.

I wonder why he didn't just say» Homebirth attended by a CPM is safe or safer than hospital birth if you don't count the fact that 3 times as many babies die»?

All of this, along with improvements in technology, has contributed to making home births just as safe, if not safer than hospital births.

Many women find the home birth experience to be a much more tranquil and enjoyable experience than a hospital birth.

Home births (relative risk [RR], 10.55) and births in free - standing birth centers (RR, 3.56) attended by midwives had a significantly higher risk of a 5 - minute Apgar score of 0 (P <.0001) than hospital births attended by physicians or midwives.

I've used the CDC Wonder data from 2003 - 2008 to demonstrate that in each year, planned homebirth with a homebirth midwives has a neonatal death rate anywhere from 3 - 7X higher than hospital birth.

As a matter of fact, Dr. Amy discussed, here, the latest figures released by the CDC, which show unequivocably that homebirth is substantially more dangerous than hospital birth.

Ina may also has a much higher death rate than hospital birth.

Fiscally speaking, home births are often cheaper than hospital births.

I attempted a home birth in 2010 in Oregon, under the belief that it was «as safe or safer than hospital birth».

Oh, wait, maybe they do, and MANA is planning to release them now to say «hey, it isn't really 8x the rate, like the Oregon stats show, they are an awful anomaly, it is * only * 3x, and three is almost the same as one, so, ipso facto, as safe or safer than hospital birth.»

Go to MDC and see the ridiculous «arguments» these women resort to just to keep pretending that homebirth is safe or safer than hospital birth.

The three recent papers published in American Journal of ObGyn: Wax metaanalysis (2010), Chervenak (2013), Grunebaum **** (see note at bottom)(Apgar 0, 2013) and the U.K. Birth Place study (2013) report perinatal death rates from homebirth as 3 times or 10 times higher than perinatal death rates in the first week than hospital birth.

In other words, I would not conclude that C - SECTION «dramatically decreases», because it would seem that MORE babies have brain injuries with c - sections than hospital births.

Women do indeed deserve respectful, competent care, but your aim is clearly to set up an adversarial relationship between women and their doctors, all while promoting homebirth, a practice that is demonstrably more dangerous for babies than hospital birth.

The facts are that home birth in the US is riskier than hospital birth even under the best circumstances.

She did not intimate that homebirth was safer than hospital birth.

But if a woman wants a homebirth, rather than a hospital birth... what about that?

Homebirth is very different than hospital birth — people do not come and wait in the other room until the baby is born.

Because Amy Tuteur, MD didn't describe the core beliefs of the cult I can't tell whether she means that the beliefs are unfalsifiable (undetectable goodness of vaginal birth) or whether she means that the cult members are resistant to evidence (home birth is as safe as or even safer than hospital birth) which is NOT what unfalsifiable means.

Earlier today I gave a brief overview of the results (Homebirth midwives reveal death rate 450 % higher than hospital birth, announce that it shows homebirth is safe).

Homebirths are even riskier than hospital births by a lot.