Sentences with phrase «than hospital birth under»

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.

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My son was born 7 lbs 1oz, he lost more than 10 % of his birth weight and they still released him from the hospital, I gave him a bath the next day by this point 4 days old, he didn't wake up, took him right to another hospital where the admitted him and put him on an IV and under the lights, they had me pumping every hour producing a max of 5 ml a time, finally they discovered I had insufficient milk glands, I was not allowed to have a bottle until I got home.

Home birth is also more economical than a hospital birth, usually costing well under $ 4,000 as compared to a hospital which can cost over $ 10,000.

Isn't childbirth safer than it ever has been, with most women going to hospital and giving birth under the supervision of well - trained medical health professionals?

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.

And more importantly, rather than just comparing home vs hospital overall, it compared midwife - led vs OB - led births at home vs hospital (as you should well know, in the Netherlands, low - risk women see a midwife, full stop — you have to be high - risk to see an OB, so hospital births are a combination of low - risk women under midwife care and high - risk women under OB care).

I attempted a home birth in 2010 in Oregon, under the belief that it was «as safe or safer than hospital birth».

The facts are that home birth in the US is riskier than hospital birth even under the best circumstances.