Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital
births escalating and midwives involved with home
births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home
births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies
on home
birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish
planned from unplanned home
births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.
You can include some preferences for a cesarean delivery in your
birth plan, such as being able to
view the
birth or having your baby placed
on your chest immediately after delivery.
Mutual consent based
on proper education and factual information (an average of three child -
births per woman leads inevitably to population explosion, and that is a mathematical fact) is, I believe, from a humanitarian
view, a much better option than activizing centralized population control measures or even highly inefrfective family
planning programs.