Sentences with phrase «very first home birth»

I've seen it from the student midwife perspective ~ literally, my very first home birth ~ and from my years as an L&D nurse.

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An infant car seat is one of the very first things you will need for your baby unless you plan to give birth at home or take the bus to get home from the hospital.

Perhaps the biggest advantage of giving birth at home is that you will be able to sleep in your own bed that very first night, and nothing is like your own bed.

Official figures show there is a very slight risk increase of a poor outcome for women having their first baby at home - from five in 1,000 for a hospital birth to nine in 1,000 - almost 1 % - for a home birth.

We just know that she reached out claiming support for home birth while also telling people to transfer at the very first sign, that bad things can happen to you.

The first trimester, he was very nervous and not okay with a home birth because he thought all a midwife could do was «boil water,» so to speak.

I attended my first hypno - birthing student's birth at a birth center as her doula and I became very distressed to find that she could not stay relaxed and comfortable by herself, even in early labor at home.

«He was apprehensive at first,» said Deedee, who lives with her family in Memphis, Tenn. «Then he did some research about the pros and cons of home and hospital births, and he thought delivering at home had some very measurable pluses.»

While home births are very common in developing countries, only 13 % of women in these countries receive postnatal care in the first 24 hours.

Lots of people (all of whom have never had a home birth or attended one) are very fond of telling the world that women are not «allowed» have their first baby at home.

When contractions first started and my waters broke we went into hospital, but as I wasn't very dilated and they had too many women in for too few staff we were told to go home until morning (we had torrential rain that night for Goth Child's birth).

When my sister planned a home birth in NYC, she was very reassured when her midwife told her in the first interview that she had never (or maybe very rarely) done an * emergency * hospital transfer — her (relatively frequent) transfers to the hospital happened long before the point where it became an emergency.

Molly supported me from the very first prenatal visit through the magical day of the home birth, and helped me re-discover that I did have the strength to give birth naturally, with no interventions and to realize that my body is perfectly capable to birth my babies.