Sentences with phrase «than hospital birth because»

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!

Not exact matches

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).

Another lengthy scan with very little discussion between the technician and us, again our worrying about our being steamrolled into a management plan without through evaluation of the risks and benefits, or being essentially pushed into a hospital birth because it would be best for the baby but also mean that I would not have the option of birthing vaginally was all a little more than my tear ducts could bear.

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.

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.

Home Birth on the Rise by a Dramatic 20 Percent One mother chose home birth because it was cheaper than going to a hospBirth on the Rise by a Dramatic 20 Percent One mother chose home birth because it was cheaper than going to a hospbirth because it was cheaper than going to a hospital.

Birth centers tend to be cheaper than hospitals not only for the time that mothers spend but because hospitals use more resources, such as IV line, belly monitors, electricity, pain drugs, etc..

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.

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.

Ericka, there are more cases of infant death in hospitals only because hospital birth is so much more common than out - of - hospital birth.

The FACT is... more women DO die in hospital births (from things that could be prevented, or from unnecessary interventions) than in home births, and that women were NOT «dying in droves» from home births back in the day... death during birth was fairly uncommon until women were forced into dirty birth centers with doctors knocking them out and delivering their babies without being held to any sanitation standards because promiscuity was on the rise and we had to keep the «dirty women» separate from the rest of the hospital.

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.

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.

Because many people who want a home birth believe it's just as safe as hospital birth if they have a midwife and transport to a hospital, and given that belief they'd prefer to manage on their own — just like many people prefer to make their own bread without strictly adhering to a belief that the B - vitamins in home - baked bread are somehow better than the B - vitamins in storebought bread.

Great care was taken to control for pregnancy risk status because the «intended a hospital birth» group contained proportionally more «high - risk» pregnancies than the «intended a home birth» group, and because «high - risk» pregnancies were more likely to have PPHs.

«The reason studies consistently show midwifery to be as safe or safer than hospital births is because it's about preventive care and good nutrition during pregnancy,» Cornia said.

The incidence of PPH for planned hospital births would be expected to be higher than the incidence for planned home births, because nulliparous women are more likely to experience PPH (see Table 2), and are also more likely to plan a hospital birth [28].

Women are choosing Homebirth because they are told it is safe or safer than hospital birth.

Personally, I think that hospital births (even though I do believe women are often forced into interventions that are unnecessary) are on average safer than homebirths because of the conditions that can happen all of a sudden, even though some would say those conditions are rare.

If I had to take a guess at why you are distorting the truth to make hospital births look safer than they are is because you are scared.

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.

I think that childbirth is safer nowadays because of the prenatal care that women receive, not so much because women are giving birth in hospitals (even though I am aware that there are problems that come up during delivery, which would make a hospital birth safer than, say, a homebirth).

Homebirth is in America as Homebirth in America does, yet the Homebirth advocates who are looking at the actually data are making excuses about the worse outcomes as they speculate that it is either due to the high risks births that were included, or because they must have been farther away from the hospital than just 5 minutes, or just ignoring the outcomes data and focusing on the low intervention data.

This is an important finding because it helps us interpret the case reports of poor outcomes with water birth — poor outcomes do occur with water birth, but they are no more likely to occur with water birth than with conventional hospital delivery.

While I don't put much stock in home birth horror stories as evidence that home birth is less safe than hospital (because I don't know how they compare to the number of hospital horror stories), I put even LESS stock in «I would have died if I hadn't been in the hospital» stories.

Because women in Gelderland more often choose home than hospital birth, only women choosing hospital birth were recruited in the final four months of the study.

All analyses were based on the planned rather than the actual place of birth because referral to hospital during labour is usually indicative of anticipated or existing problems.

Cobedding of twins and other infants of multiple gestation is a frequent practice, both in the hospital setting and at home.174 However, the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples have not been established.175, — , 177 Twins and higher - order multiples are often born prematurely and with low birth weight, so they are at increased risk of SIDS.101, 102 Furthermore, there is increased potential for overheating and rebreathing while cobedding, and size discordance might increase the risk of accidental suffocation.176 Most cobedded twins are placed on their sides rather than supine.174 Finally, cobedding of twins and higher - order multiples in the hospital setting might encourage parents to continue this practice at home.176 Because the evidence for the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples is not compelling and because of the increased risk of SIDS and suffocation, the AAP believes that it is prudent to provide separate sleep areas for these infants to decrease the risk of SIDS and accidental suffoBecause the evidence for the benefits of cobedding twins and higher - order multiples is not compelling and because of the increased risk of SIDS and suffocation, the AAP believes that it is prudent to provide separate sleep areas for these infants to decrease the risk of SIDS and accidental suffobecause of the increased risk of SIDS and suffocation, the AAP believes that it is prudent to provide separate sleep areas for these infants to decrease the risk of SIDS and accidental suffocation.

They're worth reading, especially because you'll see when you do that as of July 10, 2012, the blog had not been updated in more than six months and that some problems in these heart - wrenching stories actually arose from hospital, not home birth, mistakes.

✓ Because home birth is at least as safe or most likely safer than hospital birth.

I was at the hospital less than an hour before she was born, because I knew I needed to wait as long as possible before going in to be able to stick to the birth plan.

✓ Because home birth is gentler than hospital birth.

I even chose to go to a birth center in New Hampshire, rather than having a home birth in Massachusetts where I live, because the laws regarding midwifery are different in New Hampshire and I knew that should I need to transfer to a medical facility, a New Hampshire midwife would get a lot more respect at a New Hampshire hospital than a Mass. midwife at a Mass. hospital.

«The results of this study were of particular interest because more than half of the pregnant women with migraine experienced some type of adverse birth outcome, suggesting that these pregnancies should be considered high risk,» said study author Matthew S. Robbins, M.D., director of inpatient services at Montefiore Headache Center, chief of neurology at Jack D. Weiler Hospital of Montefiore, and associate professor of clinical neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

In fact, British regulators are urging women to consider home birth because home birth can be safer than a hospital birth for many women.

Not only is this unfortunate because of a lack of people to share experiences / plans with, but the result also is that more time is spent on preparing for a hospital birth than on the details of what it's like to be preparing for a planned home birth.