Sentences with phrase «than a hospital birth in»

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).

I believe Homebirth has always been shown to have more risk than hospital birth in every credible study.

Originally published on Gaia Health Home Birth Safer Than Hospital Birth In The Netherlands, the majority of births occur at home, not in hospitals.

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Typical birth in a US hospital «costs» about 20 % more than the Lindo Wing, a private, luxury wing in London where the royal baby was born

Speaking purely from a who has to pay perspective — birth control is FAR cheaper than 9 months of prenatal care and a hospital delivery, which these days is in excess of $ 10,000.

They all lead to the conclusion that birth defects account for more than $ 2.5 billion in hospital costs.

Catholic hospitals MUST be held to the same standards as other hospitals in the USA, that means if they must offer other options including birth control, or morning after pill than so be it.

They see it in the birth control legislation in Massachusetts and Connecticut; they see it in the Catholic pressure to remove welfare agencies that have birth control clinics from local community chests elsewhere; they see it in the Catholic objection to divorce laws that are much more flexible than the law of the Church; they see it in the attempts to have non-Catholic hospitals adopt the Catholic ideas of medical ethics in the field of obstetrics.

As I continue on this journey, I find the more I learn about hospitals and standard procedures and doctors» timeframes, etc., the more I think women who elect to birth in a hospital are «brave» rather than the women who do so in their own homes.

Even when women are segregated in maternity wards, infections are much more commonplace after hospital births than homebirths.»

I live in a state where I can not have a home birth unless it is unattended and I live more than an hour away from a hospital and 1 / 2hour from a town.

Although I'm sure it's possible, I think that for the most part, these «orgasmic births» are much more likely to occur in a birthing center or home environment than in the hospital.

Birth centers provide an in - between choice for parents who would like to deliver outside of a hospital setting but with more help than they would be able to get at home.

Australian researchers found that new mothers were more likely to be breastfeeding their newborns a few months after delivery if their hospitals followed the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) guidelines, than if they gave birth in a hospital accredited by the IniHospital Initiative (BFHI) guidelines, than if they gave birth in a hospital accredited by the Inihospital accredited by the Initiative.

At Advocate, the first hospital in the area to feed low birth weight babies and others at risk for the condition exclusively with breast milk, NEC is down by more than half, said Jeffrey George, hospital director of neonatology.

I have always believed in my gut that it is safer to have a CNM attend a homebirth in a low risk pregnancy than give birth in a hospital.

And most of all, because there are NO guarantees, one way or the other - the numbers on safety and well being with home births are better than those in the hospital.

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

Low risk birth in the Netherlands at home with a midwife is more likely to result in a DEAD baby than high risk birth in a hospital with a doctor.

while being coerced to push even though I wanted to breath the babies down, I didn't get to see them at all for 15 hours after they were born because the hospital staff didn't get their act together, not because it was medically necessary, etc., so much so that the head of OB (my office doc) later admitted they had me on suicide watch because what happened was so different than my birth plan... I wasn't stuck on exact details, especially because twins throw a loop in all of it, but it was nothing like I had hoped for, at all.

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?

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.

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].

This is the 4th confirmed homebirth death in NC this year for a rate that is a whopping TEN times higher than the rate of death for comparable risk hospital birth.

So then why, in a country where most births take place in hospitals, are mothers dying more frequently than other countries?

In yet another example of a strikingly robust finding, planned homebirth in NZ had more than triple the neonatal death rate of planned hospital birtIn yet another example of a strikingly robust finding, planned homebirth in NZ had more than triple the neonatal death rate of planned hospital birtin NZ had more than triple the neonatal death rate of planned hospital birth.

The Canadian study has an unusual way of calculating perinatal mortality, and the Dutch study points out that homebirth is as safe as hospital birth in the Netherlands without addressing the fact that the homebirth population is much lower risk than the hospital population.

Low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour with planned home birth had lower rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta than those with planned hospital birth.

This new set of NICE guidelines concluded that healthy women with straightforward pregnancies are safer to give birth at home, or in a midwife - led birth centre, than at a hospital with the care of an obstetrician.

It takes longer to recover from a caesarean section than a natural birth and most women stay in hospital for around 3 - 4 days after the operation.

Studies there (sorry, don't have any references on hand, I'll try to get them posted later) show that home - birthing in this setting is just as safe for mother and child for a first birth, and safer for next births, than a hospital setting.

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

Working with June these last two births has been so much more personal than the 5 births in the hospital.

The perinatal (around the time of birth) death rate of babies born in nonhospital settings is much higher than for babies born in a hospital, even though their mothers are supposedly lower - risk.

The average cost of a birthing center is one third less than in a hospital, and some birth centers often offer discount coupons for future births.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

In Oregon, there have been at least 19 newborn deaths reported to the state over the past decade for a death rate more than 4 times higher than low risk hospital birth.

Conclusions: Low risk women in primary care at the onset of labour with planned home birth had lower rates of severe acute maternal morbidity, postpartum haemorrhage, and manual removal of placenta than those with planned hospital birth.

In my area, we have a large plain population that will birth at home regardless, so it's safer to have regulated CNMs with hospital privileges doing it than the underground midwives some would otherwise turn to.

What floors me is how people continue to ignore the glaringly obvious fact, that homebirth, even under the best circumstances, continues to kill mothers and babies at a rate that is far higher than births that occur in hospital settings.

We have the data that shows homebirth mortality rates with CPMs is 5.4 / 1000 which is actually 7 - 9 xs greater than in hospital births with similar co-factors.

Planned homebirth with a licensed homebirth midwife in Oregon has a death rate 9X higher than term births in the hospital.

The kind thing to say to someone considering a homebirth is: Choose homebirth if you like, but know that your baby is far more likely to die or be injured than during a birth in hospital.

Your midwives saw to it that was maintained as well by not warning you that all of the data on homebirth in the US show a 3 - 8x higher risk of the baby dying in homebirth than in hospital birth.

If ALL births were done at home, you'd have five times as many dead babies than you'd have when compared to ALL births done in a hospital.

That's a maternal death rate at home birth more than 20 TIMES HIGHER than the maternal death rate in the hospital.

But saying home birth is safer than giving birth in a hospital is just ignorant.

Dr Motha says her philosophy is that women should have gentler births than occur now in Western hospitals.

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.

In Colorado, licensed homebirth midwives have a perinatal death rate more than double that of all hospital birth in the state (including premature babiesIn Colorado, licensed homebirth midwives have a perinatal death rate more than double that of all hospital birth in the state (including premature babiesin the state (including premature babies).