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 truly shocking thing about homebirth is that even when you include malpractice and negligence in the hospital statistics, homebirth STILL has a death rate that is 450 % higher
than hospital birth for comparable risk women.
Why Homebirth is 1,000 Times Safer
Than Hospital Birth for Low Risk.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
They all lead to the conclusion that
birth defects account
for more
than $ 2.5 billion in
hospital costs.
We soon discovered that our less
than 24 - hour old son was born with a life - threatening
birth defect and we were immediately rushed to the McMaster Children's
Hospital,
for surgery and care.
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.
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.
If these are not effective and the mother wishes to have medication, we will transport to the
hospital (though of more
than 500
births, only 1 - 2 women have transported
for pain relief).
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.
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.
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.
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.
No matter that it comports with the data from Oregon that shows that PLANNED homebirth with a LICENSED homebirth midwife has a death rate 9X higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth or that MANA has found that its own members have such hideous death rates that they have been desperately hiding them
for years.
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.
And North Carolina is vying to be the homebirth death capital of the US: they had 5 publicly reported homebirth deaths last year
for a rate 12X higher
than low risk
hospital birth.
That's why it is absolutely critical
for readers of Charlotte's story to understand that Charlotte didn't have to die, that homebirth increases the risk of perinatal death, and that licensed Oregon homebirth midwives have a death rate 800 % higher
than term
hospital birth.
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.
You wrote, «Every study I found said homebirth is safer
for low risk woman
than hospital birth.
That's TEN TIMES HIGHER
than the national neonatal mortality rate
for low risk
hospital birth with a CNM.
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.
Most
hospitals have a separate recovery room
for women who have just given
birth surgically, but it is usually a room with the potential of more
than one person at a time.
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.
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.
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..
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.
(Addendum: One death is is a stillbirth, so there were 12 neonatal deaths
for a rate 3X higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth.)
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.
Unless the mother is too wooy or a midwife herself, it does seem that a free birthing mother is more likely to go to a doctor or
hospital if there are complications which could explain why unassisted
births in either the Colorado or Oregon study showed a lower mortality rate
for unassisted
than midwife attended.
Instead there have been 13 deaths that I have heard about and confirmed
for a death rate that is more
than 3X higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth.
To put this into context, over time, Dr Amy has presented several different lines of hard evidence that the death rate
for babies is higher in home
birth than it is at
hospitals, in America.
Any way you look at it, homebirth is more dangerous
for mothers
than hospital birth.
The most recent large scale study comparing outcomes
for mother and baby reported in the British Medical Journal last month showed that
for women who had previously given
birth, adverse outcomes were less common among planned home
births (1 per 1,000)
than among planned
hospital births (2.3 per 1,000).
Home birthing is the newest parenting trend with more and more mothers opting
for a certified midwife
than a standard
hospital birth.
Note that the total mortality rate
for births planned to be attended by direct - entry midwives is 6 - 8 times higher
than the rate
for births planned to be attended in
hospitals.
The vast majority of
births in Ireland take place in
hospital, either in a dedicated maternity
hospital or in the maternity unit of an acute
hospital, but some women choose to have their baby at home and others choose a more low - tech approach in which they are cared
for primarily by midwives rather
than obstetricians.
The vast majority of
births in Ireland take place in
hospital, either in a dedicated maternity
hospital or in the maternity unit of an acute
hospital, but some women choose to have their baby at home and others choose a more low - tech approach such as a
birth centre or a midwifery led unit in which they are cared
for primarily by midwives rather
than obstetricians.
The results offer support to the concept that home
birth for low - risk pregnancies is not necessarily less safe
than conventional,
hospital - based deliveries.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems that a
hospital birth should now be cheaper
than a homebirth
for almost any US citizen regardless of their deductible, etc..
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.
It seems that the rates reported in this database
for low - risk pregnancies (excluding malpresentation and other factors) are all as good as or better in every category other
than intrapartum death rate of babies, which I am having a hard time finding in the other literature on
hospital births in the U.S.
for low - risk, white women.
«The planned category of out - of -
hospital births is seen to be a generally low - risk group
for neonatal mortality, with very few low -
birth - weight
births and fewer teenage, low - educational levels and unwed mothers
than found statewide, «the researchers said.
Birth centers were no riskier than hospitals for first - time moms, and all options (including home) appeared equally safe for women who had given birth be
Birth centers were no riskier
than hospitals for first - time moms, and all options (including home) appeared equally safe
for women who had given
birth be
birth before.
Obstetrical procedures were more common among women who had planned in -
hospital births than among women who delivered out of the
hospital (30.4 % vs. 1.5 %
for induction of labor and 26.4 % vs. 1.1 %
for augmentation of labor, P < 0.001
for both comparisons)(Table 3).
Rates of obstetrical intervention are high in U.S.
hospitals, and we found large absolute differences in the risks of these interventions between planned out - of -
hospital births and in -
hospital births.38 In contrast, serious adverse fetal and neonatal outcomes are infrequent in all the
birth settings we assessed, and the absolute differences in risk that we observed between planned
birth locations were correspondingly small;
for example, planned out - of -
hospital births were associated with an excess of less
than 1 fetal death per 1000 deliveries in multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analyses.
As mother's opted to use physicians to give
birth in
hospitals or clinics, rather
than using a midwife
for home
birth, the practice of routine circumcision of male infants blossomed and became nearly universal.