I read some where that hospital births had a higher mortality rate for mothers and infants
than home births.
Even the World Health Organization has said that there is no proof that hospital births are safer
than home births in the developed world.
I am not opposed to your conclusion that hospital births are general better
than home births but this site fails to cover critical issues.
Birth centers are equipped with way more monitoring machines and on - hand medication
than a home birth ever could but meant to feel more homey than a hospital.
I have a feeling a podiatrist would be of more practical use
than a home birth midwife.
And just to help you get the picture, based on YOUR info (stolen bits and pieces of stories from grieving families) that means that circ is actually 16 TIMES more dangerous for a baby
than HOME BIRTH.
MACONESWell, I certainly think that, you know, a hospital birth is gonna be different
than a home birth or in a birth — or a birth in a midwifery center.
At best, one can say that a DEM attended home birth appears to be no worse
than a home birth without DEM attendant.
there is no proof that hospital birth is 100 % safer
than a home birth, with midwife.
One quick google search will show that the neonatal death rate in the United States is 6.37, NOT 0.38, making the hospital death rate 320 % HIGHER
than the home birth rate you cited.
I am not making the claim that hospital births are nearly 300 % more dangerous
than home birth, I am not making this claim because even though some grouping of numbers taken outside of context supports the statement to make such a claim would be unethical and foolish.
While a hospital birth can provide peace of mind by providing ready help for emergencies, chances are good you will also see more interventions and birth complications
than home birth.
Not exact matches
So on Sunday, November 18, 2012, Sean gave me a gift greater
than I can ever explain: an opportunity to stand up in church and reclaim the place I knew since
birth as my
home, a place where I felt safe and truly loved again.
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.
Recovering from anxiety has been the biggest challenge I've ever faced — far harder
than going away to college or giving
birth unmedicated to a 9 1/2 lb baby at
home.
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.
She had such a wonderful experience that when I was pregnant with my second child, I decided to leave my new OB (even though she was a far cry better
than my previous one) and have a midwife - attended
home birth as well.
Pretending that only midwife attended
home births are acceptable isn't any better
than pretending that only OB attended hospital
births are acceptable.
I attended a
home birth and it was so much nicer
than any hospital
birth I have ever seen or heard about.
When we choose our care provider at the beginning of my pregnancy, we felt that if we had a scrap, the CPM had more
home birth experience
than the CNM.
In any case, there are no studies done on the relative safety of UC, so it can not be unequivocally stated that UC is more dangerous
than midwife - assisted
home birth.
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.
I said, «it can not be unequivocally stated that UC is more dangerous
than midwife - assisted
home birth.»
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.
A woman who had a still
birth with a midwife present summed it up beautifully —
home birth and UC babies must be more cherished
than hospital birthed babies.
For a lot of people,
home is a much less stressful environment
than a doctor's office or a hospital, which can make a big difference during
birth.
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.
First, practices with both
birth center and
home birth clientele typically have a larger budget with which to draw for assuming the cost of accreditation,
than those practices that serve homebirth exclusively.
We are often asked about the equipment we bring into
homes when attending
births and we're more
than happy to illustrate the high level of care that can be provided outside the maternity institution.
For those families who live further
than 45 minutes away, we offer one
home visit at 24 - 72 hours and the remaining 4 in the
Birth Center office.
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.
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.
Now, the term doula encompasses so much more
than simply
birth support, and extends to going into the family's
home and helping the entire family adjust to life with a newborn.
I chose to give
birth at
home with midwives primarily because it seemed a lot simpler and less scary
than my alternatives, so I in no way think I am more badass
than any other mom because of how I birthed, or the fact that I am a biological mom at all.
As a
home birth attendant, most practices contract their assistants rather
than employ them and I suspect most
home birth practices are owned by solo practitioners rather
than in partnerships or in a team of clinicians.
We topped well over 1,000 in -
home postpartum hours and are still going, more
birth clients
than ever, so many lactation clients that are still going strong breastfeeding after their consults, happy placenta clients, belly bindings and so many classes.
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.
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.
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?
Personally, I'd rather attack the
home -
birth problem from the midwives
than from the patients.
Home births have a lower risk profile than hospital birth, meaning that mostly low - risk women CHOOSE home bi
Home births have a lower risk profile
than hospital
birth, meaning that mostly low - risk women CHOOSE
home bi
home birth.
«While most pregnant women who choose to have planned
home births are at lower risk of complications due to careful screening, planned
home births are associated with double to triple the risk of infant death
than are planned hospital
births.
A more recent study showed that low risk
birth (
home or hospital) with a Dutch midwife has a HIGHER perinatal mortality rate
than high risk delivery with a Dutch obstetrician.
«
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
Birth centers offer a low - tech, comfortable place for childbirth that's safer
than having your baby at
home if problems arise.
Home birth is worse
than driving your kid around for his / her entire childhood.
Here is a BBC article that finds
home birth less risky
than a planned hospital
birth.
The quote that you put in your comment from Dr Amy seems, to me at least, to me making two points: — Ima May Gaskin is responsible for more
than one death during a
home birth.
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.
My mother's twin was lost at
birth (it was 1949, the USSR; no ultrasounds, nothing of what we take for granted today), and though perhaps my Grandmother had the small comfort of at least coming
home with one baby rather
than with empty arms, she never forgot.