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.
Not exact matches
And so I learned that the
hospital is not an evil place (though choose your
hospital wisely if youâ $ ™ re planning to
birth there), that I am stronger
than I thought (I sort of want to cross-stitch â $ œ12 hours on pit
with not pain medsâ $ into a pillow), and that even though it can sometimes appear as though they are, medical professionals are NOT the enemy (butâ $ ¦ do your research!
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.
I'm hoping I can finish «Natural
Hospital Birth» before the end of the month, but I'm finding out that if I have 5 minutes to sit down
with my Intel Tablet that I am much more likely to try to catch up on emails
than I am to read a book.
While seven months pregnant
with her fourth child, Joy Szabo was told by her local
hospital that she would be required to have a repeat cesarean section rather
than allow her to have the
birth she wanted, a VBAC.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
«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.
The following quote from the article above puzzles me to no end: «The latest CDC figures (publicly available on the CDC Wonder website) show that planned homebirth
with a non-nurse midwife has a mortality rate 600 % HIGHER
than low risk
hospital birth.»
«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
The latest CDC figures (publicly available on the CDC Wonder website) show that planned homebirth
with a non-nurse midwife has a mortality rate 600 % HIGHER
than low risk
hospital birth.
That's TEN TIMES HIGHER
than the national neonatal mortality rate for low risk
hospital birth with a CNM.
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.
As the recently released statistics from Oregon show, planned homebirth
with a licensed homebirth midwife has a mortality rate 800 % HIGHER
than term
hospital birth.
This new set of NICE guidelines concluded that healthy women
with straightforward pregnancies are safer to give
birth at home, or in a midwife - led
birth centre,
than at a
hospital with the care of an obstetrician.
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.
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?
Working
with June these last two
births has been so much more personal
than the 5
births in the
hospital.
Turns out a
birth center was basically the best of both worlds — homey and less clinical
than a traditional
hospital, but still bustling
with medical professionals who could ease my mind.
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 hosp
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 hosp
birth ever could but meant to feel more homey
than a
hospital.
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.
Conclusions: 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.
In my area, we have a large plain population that will
birth at home regardless, so it's safer to have regulated CNMs
with hospital privileges doing it
than the underground midwives some would otherwise turn to.
We have the data that shows homebirth mortality rates
with CPMs is 5.4 / 1000 which is actually 7 - 9 xs greater
than in
hospital births with similar co-factors.
Planned homebirth
with a licensed homebirth midwife in Oregon has a death rate 9X higher
than term
births in the
hospital.
Home
birth with a midwife, apprentice, doula,
birth photographer etc. isn't following his «mammalian model» anymore
than a lady delivering in a
hospital.
7 - 9 - x's greater
than that of in
hospital births by CNMs
with similar cohorts.
However, MORE people (per capita) have devastating home
birth experiences — ending
with dead babies or babies
with brain damage or permanent nerve damage —
than hospital births.
Yes, a home
birth with a competent attendant would be safer
than an unattended home
birth or an incompetent attendant, but it won't be and can't be as safe as a
hospital birth.
Second, the authors ACTUALLY showed that homebirth
with a CPM in 2000 had a mortality rate 3X higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth in 2000.
The latest data from the CDC (available on the CDC) Wonder website shows that homebirth
with a non-nurse midwife has a neonatal mortality rate more
than 7 times HIGHER
than low risk
hospital birth.
They start
with a unshakeable belief that homebirth is as safe or safer
than hospital birth, and that lay midwives
with only a highschool education are adequately trained.
All of this, along
with improvements in technology, has contributed to making home
births just as safe, if not safer
than hospital births.
I've used the CDC Wonder data from 2003 - 2008 to demonstrate that in each year, planned homebirth
with a homebirth midwives has a neonatal death rate anywhere from 3 - 7X higher
than hospital birth.
How can you trust that homebirth is safe when the most comprehensive study ever done of homebirth (and analyzed by a midwife) found that PLANNED homebirth
with a LICENSED midwife has a death rate approximately 800 % higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth, and even MANA can't figure out how to criticize it?
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.
I have very fast (less
than 2 hour labors) and have arrived at the
hospital at 8 and 7 centimeters
with my first two
births.
Most first
births are slower
than actively managed maternity units would like and so labours in
hospitals get hurried along by either physical or chemical means, and whilst most babies can cope well
with this artificial speeding up of the labour, some find it a challenge and become distressed requiring further interventions.
The two larger
hospitals have lower c - section rates
than the smaller
hospital closest to me and they also boast women's clinics
with multiple midwives on staff, but my homebirth midwife recommended an OB at the closer
hospital — a personal friend of hers — who had given
birth her own child at The Farm (
with Ina May as a back - up midwife!)
Home birthing is the newest parenting trend
with more and more mothers opting for a certified midwife
than a standard
hospital birth.
A
birth center has more of a home - like feeling to it
than a
hospital labor ward,
with access to food, music, the ability to have friends and family present, and furnishings that look and feel more like home
than a
hospital room.
You weren't told that the CDC statistics show that homebirth
with a non-nurse midwife has a death rate anywhere from 3 - 7X higher
than comparable risk
hospital birth.