I've given birth in a hospital twice, and frankly, I think that you don't know a damned
thing about hospital birth.
Most
things about hospital birth work against healthy delivery.
Not exact matches
Education during pregnancy rarely has anything serious to do with breastfeeding, and since breastfeeding is perceived by most pre-parenthood women to be a natural, instinctive
thing instead of a learned behavior (on both mom & baby's part) if it doesn't go absolutely perfectly from the first moments they may feel something is wrong with THEM and clam up
about it while quietly giving the baby the
hospital - offered bottle along with the bag of formula samples they give out «just in case» even if you explicitly tell them you're breastfeeding (which was my experience with my firstborn in 2004 and one of the many highly informed reasons I chose to
birth my next two at home).
In addition to getting to know each other over the course of the mom's pregnancy — learning
about her hopes, fears, and wants for her
birth experience — home birthing moms also have
birth plans to clarify
things like which post-
birth procedures the family does and doesn't want (like vitamin K shot, eye ointment, etc.), and preferred
hospitals and care providers to call in case of transfer.
An important
thing to remember
about home
birth is that if something goes wrong, you don't have the amenities and technology of a
hospital.
When asked
about the statement, «Having a safe and healthy mother and baby are the only
things that truly matter in
birth,» 68 % of the women who had only had
hospital births agreed with this statement.
The last
thing I'll comment with to end my rant
about your so - called ignorance is that while most
births are perfectly safe and the child arrives completely alert and healthy (regardless of
hospital or homebirth) there is and always will be an element of life and death mixed into the equation — not all
hospital births end in a live child, in fact the percentages are
about equal in both
hospital births and home
births were natural vaginal
births occur..
It's not uncommon for those in your position to worry
about many of the same
things as moms - to - be, like getting to the
hospital or birthing center on time, or feeling nervous
about witnessing the
birth.
However, now that we're through the process, I can not say enough good
things about the Cambridge
Birth Center and Cambridge
Hospital.
One
thing I loved
about the Cambridge
Birth Center is that it is its own house, right across from the
hospital.
Its easy to say you are informed and you «know» the risks, and nasty
things like «some babies aren't just meant to live»... but man, when you are living that statistic, or that emergency, you know that all that garbage
about «how» natural out of
hospital birth is so much better... is just that, garbage.
So yeah, breast edema, that was the one
thing that I think I wish I would've been warn
about because I had a
hospital birth with him, was hey, you were on an IV, do not be shock when you wake up and each one of your boob as a size of your head because it might happen.
We have NICU nurses who are saying
things along the lines of, «Well, if moms were less strict
about their
birth plan, if they compromised a little bit more, if they didn't have to have everything their way, then we'd probably have healthier
births in the
hospital.»
Although my husband felt the same way — the
thing that convinced him
about the home
birth was that we weren't sure we would get the rooming in option at any of the
hospitals.
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.
My water broke at 18weeks, no im 27weeks and 5days and in the
hospital, alot of people here are telling me differnt
things about breastfeeding like «its going to be hard because your going to be a month and a half early» some say «your milk will come though within 72 hours after
birth» and so on... Has anyone gone though an early
birth and had problems breastfeeding?
I think home
birth is wonderful
thing to do, or a low intervention
birth in a
hospital, but bashing all
about the
hospital birth doesn't help either.
From
birth control [the pill, NFP, TCOYF, abstinence, condoms, nothing at all], to home
birth versus
hospital birth, immunizations, the list goes on and on - the main
thing I want to convey to ALL people is to PRAY
about your decision, FERVENTLY!