The phrase "than a hospital birth" means that something is considered to be safer, more comfortable or preferable than giving birth in a hospital setting.
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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.
Most people don't realize that the consensus from the research shows that homebirth is as safe as or safer
than hospital birth for low - risk women with a skilled birth attendant.
I had researched this option carefully and knew that in low - risk pregnancies homebirth was often times safer
than hospital birth with much less risk of interventions.
In fact, British regulators are urging women to consider home birth because home birth can be safer
than a hospital birth for many women.
The OUTCOMES of home birth, despite being mostly a phenomenon of low - risk, middle, class, educated, married white women, STILL are way
worse than hospital birth.
And a higher rate of Homebirth moms say «I understood the normalcy of birth and took care of myself and had a positive outlook», and had a bad
outcome than hospital birth moms.
A study reported in the BMJ found that women whose pregnancies were low - risk suffered far fewer severe negative outcomes from
home than hospital births, especially after the first pregnancy.
A home birth in the Netherlands or Britain is safer than a home birth in the US, but still more dangerous
than a hospital birth in any country with a good medical system.
Until the mid-1980s, private insurers were willing to cover Birth Place births because they were significantly
cheaper than hospital births.
Originally published on Gaia Health Home Birth
Safer Than Hospital Birth In The Netherlands, the majority of births occur at home, not in hospitals.
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.
The study is underpowered to determine whether there is a statistically significant difference in the death rate between the two groups, but the fact that even one woman in the homebirth group died of a potentially preventable cause means that there is no basis for concluding that homebirth is as safer or safer
than hospital birth among the women in this study.
Home births carry greater risks of
complications than hospital births as the environment is not sterile and risks of infection are subsequently higher; however, home water births do not carry greater risks than normal home births.
However, home births are often less
messy than hospital births because there are fewer antiseptics and fewer procedures which cause bleeding, such as episiotomies.
-LSB-...] than hospital births (registration required to view the Medscape article).
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.
So if you are looking for options
other than a hospital birth, you need to seek recommendations for midwives, doulas or other birth practitioners.
This recent article concludes that planned attended homebirth 2007 - 2010 had 10 times the rate of intrapartum deaths (1/600) during
labor than hospital births (1/6000) during the same period.