But home birth advocates would argue that the risks
of delivering in a hospital far outweigh the 10 minutes it would take to get to a hospital in case of emergency.
In a study presented at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in New Orleans, researchers will report that patients delivered at home by midwives had a roughly four times higher risk of neonatal deaths than
babies delivered in the hospital by midwives.
Without a doubt I do not agree with women that have home births and have seen some very poor outcomes from home births that went wrong, when the child would have been perfectly fine
if delivered in a hospital.
Giving birth at home can be as safe
as delivering in a hospital if you're at low risk for complications, your caregivers are skilled and experienced, and you have a solid backup plan for getting to a hospital if you need to.
It's great that low - risk women can deliver at home and women who are in higher risk categories can
deliver in a hospital where there are caregivers trained to the level of care needed for their medical issues.
The real question is, would they STILL be as bad, or in any case, worse than for a similar population delivered in hospital [I think it would be, but possibly not as dramatically]
Women with Low - Risk Pregnancies Can Safely Give Birth outside Hospitals with Midwives A new study in England shows little difference in complications among the babies of women with low - risk pregnancies who
delivered in hospitals versus those who gave birth with midwives at home or in birthing centers.
Mothers like nitrous oxide because, in contrast to the epidural, it does not lead to a possible «chain of interventions» that can end in a cesarean section, which has become the birth method for almost one in every three American
mothers delivering in hospitals.
Emergency department information systems (EDIS), a significant focus of both federal legislation and U.S. health care reform, may ultimately improve the quality of medical
care delivered in hospitals, but as currently configured present numerous threats to health care quality and patient safety.
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impact that people who have had living babies
delivered in hospitals describe their homebirth that left them w / a baby to burry as a much better experience.
This is because the vast majority of
stillbirths delivered in the hospital are known to be antepartum and not intrapartum.29, 30, 31 On the other hand, in out - of - hospital settings, most antepartum deaths in planned home births would be transferred to the hospital.
If I'm carrying a baby with Down Syndrome or a heart defect or some other issue, I want to know asap in case there's a possibility of fetal treatment, and so I can
deliver in a hospital equipped to care for the baby at birth.
Women who
delivered in hospitals under the supervision of midwives were more likely to experience assist ed delivery, caesarean sections, forceps, episiotomy, and lacerations / perineal tear (3 - 4 degrees)[pooled ORs (95 % CI s): 0.58 (0.40, 0.84); 0.55 (0.49, 0.60); 0.54 (0.33, 0.9 0); 0.56 (0.41, 0.77) and 0.48 (0.32, 0.72) respectively.
Home birth with a midwife, apprentice, doula, birth photographer etc. isn't following his «mammalian model» anymore than a
lady delivering in a hospital.
Plenty of respected research supports the safety of planned home birth (most recent large prospective trial published in the British Medical Journal), but for women who need to
deliver in a hospital due to a complication, the midwife stays by your side and adopts a doula role.
While how you deliver is your personal decision, I highly (HIGHLY HIGHLY)
recommend delivering in a hospital just in case things go awry and you end up needing a c - section at the last moment, at least for your first VBAC.
What's more, if you choose to work with a CNM, you will most
likely deliver in a hospital setting — with all the tools and resources near by if something goes wrong.
When children were once birthed more at home, most moms
now deliver in the hospital, and have a variety of pain management options to choose from.
Although the Dutch system allows expectant mothers to choose where to give birth — in a birthing center, at home, or in a hospital — I need to
deliver in a hospital since my last delivery was via C - section.
I was fortunate to
deliver in a hospital which had a skin - to - skin policy advocating that mom and baby be allowed to have 2 hours of skin - to - skin contact immediately following birth.
Sam Watson adds: «Our study indicates that ensuring very preterm babies, particularly those born at less than 27 weeks, are
delivered in hospitals with high volume neonatal units improves their outcome, but there could be a knock - on effect on other patient groups if smaller neonatal units are closed.
In the Netherlands, with a similar law, healthcare is characterised by the emphasis on specialist palliative care
as delivered in hospitals, hospices, day - centres and homes.