Sentences with phrase «than safe birth»

Cathy Warwick epitomizes that self - serving blatherer that characterizes contemporary British midwifery: the biological essentialist who believes that «natural» birth is more important than safe birth, the anti-rationalist who invokes «quantum theory» to explain why scientific evidence should be ignored in favor of midwives» opinions, the self - absorbed, self - referential, selfish woman who pretends that the needs of midwives are the same as the needs of women.

Not exact matches

So on Sunday, November 18, 2012, Sean gave me a gift greater than I can ever explain: an opportunity to stand up in church and reclaim the place I knew since birth as my home, a place where I felt safe and truly loved again.

It is safer than giving birth.

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).

Rather than convincing the small proportion of women who avoid a medicalized birth, why not support these women in their choices by making homebirth safe and easy?

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.

I have always believed in my gut that it is safer to have a CNM attend a homebirth in a low risk pregnancy than give birth in a hospital.

If it is really as safe as they insist, and if ANY intervention is more likely to cause problems than help, then logically the «safest» birth is an unassisted one.

Yeah, it's like the obvious contradiction between «homebirth is completely safe, even safer than hospital birth!

You wrote, «Every study I found said homebirth is safer for low risk woman than hospital birth.

it doesn't mean a woman can't give birth on her own, just that she's smart enough to accept that no matter how much you plan, shit happens and it's better to be safe than sorry.

Birth centers offer a low - tech, comfortable place for childbirth that's safer than having your baby at home if problems arise.

The evidence is that c - sections are safer for babies than vaginal deliveries are, and that planned, pre-labor c - sections — as opposed to emergency, during - labor c - sections — are as safe for the mother as vaginal births are.

The Canadian study has an unusual way of calculating perinatal mortality, and the Dutch study points out that homebirth is as safe as hospital birth in the Netherlands without addressing the fact that the homebirth population is much lower risk than the hospital population.

They used to say that Homebirth is as safe or safer than Hospital birth.

Every year since 1983 no fewer than one in five American women has given birth via major abdominal surgery.22, 34 Today one in four or 25 % of women have a cesarean for the birth of their baby.22 The rate for first - time mothers may approach one in three.9 Studies show that the cesarean rate could safely be halved.11 The World Health Organization recommends no more than a 15 % cesarean rate.34 With a million women having cesarean sections every year, this means that 400,000 to 500,000 of them were unnecessary.No evidence supports the idea that cesareans are as safe as vaginal birth for mother or baby.

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.

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.

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?

Yet another study, this one consisting of every birth in The Netherlands over two years, demonstrates that home births are safer than hospital births.

At John and Lizzie's the care is based on Active Birth principles: the idea that women have faster, safer, easier deliveries (and their babies a better birth experience) when they move about in labour and give birth standing or squatting, rather than lying on their bBirth principles: the idea that women have faster, safer, easier deliveries (and their babies a better birth experience) when they move about in labour and give birth standing or squatting, rather than lying on their bbirth experience) when they move about in labour and give birth standing or squatting, rather than lying on their bbirth standing or squatting, rather than lying on their backs.

Most women who might be attracted to natural childbirth's promises that natural birth is a safer birth aren't going to be impressed with the claim that a good birth experience is more important than safety.

But what if C - sections are better and safer than vaginal 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.

Homebirth is recognised as safe for low risk women, particularly if it is not the first time they are giving birth (i.e. slightly higher risk for primiparous women than multiparous) as per «Birth Place Study» — British Medical Journal 2011 — amongst other stubirth (i.e. slightly higher risk for primiparous women than multiparous) as per «Birth Place Study» — British Medical Journal 2011 — amongst other stuBirth Place Study» — British Medical Journal 2011 — amongst other studies.

My personal opinion is that a lot of homebirthing moms are convinced that homebirth is «as safe or safer» than hospital birth, and they expect the hospital staff to affirm that belief.

But saying home birth is safer than giving birth in a hospital is just ignorant.

Your article continues to feed the unfounded fear that hospital births are somehow safer than homebirths.

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.

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!

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.

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.

And though child birth is safer than it used to be, I still regard it as a highly volitale situation.

It is tempting to conclude that the place of birth for the first group is safer than the place of birth for the second group.

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.

However, studies show that even in those countries, it's less safe than hospital birth, and it's important that mothers understand that.

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.

I wonder why he didn't just say» Homebirth attended by a CPM is safe or safer than hospital birth if you don't count the fact that 3 times as many babies die»?

All of this, along with improvements in technology, has contributed to making home births just as safe, if not safer than hospital births.

Even the World Health Organization has said that there is no proof that hospital births are safer than home births in the developed world.

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?

Even though driving is far safer than either giving birth in a hospital or being born in a hospital, we still make calculations before getting into a car.

Please post links to the «overwhelming amount of studies» that show that «home birth is safer than birthing in a hospital».

Hence you see feminists denying that breastmilk is nutritionally better than formula, or that births with fewer medical interventions are, generally speaking, safer for mothers and babies.

«An overwhelming amount of studies show that home birth (birth without unnecessary intervention) is safer than birthing in a hospital.»

For some women and babies, a c - section is safer than vaginal birth.

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

Addressing what constitutes safe birth practice at home may be a more pivotal concern than attempting to quantify the theoretical differences attributable to place of birth.

There are 49 other countries in the world where it is safer to give birth than here in the U.S..

The process is much safe than it was in times past, making the option for a home birth or water birth completely safe, provided both mother and baby are in good health and strong.