We assumed that breastfeeding does not influence the costs of childbearing and discounted future costs by 3 % per year, the social discount rate, to the year when our hypothetical women were aged 25 years, the mean age of U.S.
women at first birth.14 We performed sensitivity analyses with discount rates of 0 % and 5 %.
Not exact matches
I thought
at first that all those lined up exclamation marks were men and it seemed a bit gross, all those men watching a
woman give
birth.
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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).
At the
first Summit, delegates agreed that healthy
women with healthy pregnancies who desire a planned home
birth should be able to access a maternity care professional within an organized system that provides transfer to hospital - based services when needed.
For
women who are experiencing
birth for the
first time (and second and third), you may find yourself anxious
at the unknown, but remember that each delivery is different and there is no set way of delivering a baby.
Of the
women who planned a nonhospital
birth, 78.7 % reported being «Very Satisfied» with their
first nonhospital
birth experience, increasing to 87.9 %
at the second nonhospital
birth.
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.
Beth recalls her
first pregnancy as beautiful and uneventful which resulted in a lovely water
birth through the midwifery program
at Sydney's Royal Hospital for
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Women Today?
No
woman needed obstetric intervention in the
first hour after admission and no baby required intubation
at birth; three babies, however, were admitted to special care (one after caesarean delivery and two for prematurity).
Let me
first say, I believe every
woman should be enabled and empowered to have the best chance
at the
birth experience she wants for her self and her baby.
The point is that, although yes, some
women and babies still die in the hospital:
First: That number is FAR LOWER than what it was when everyone gave
birth at home Second: OBs and medical professionnal are constantly trying to improve their methods and reduce the mortality rate even more.
I might also add that if the obstetric and legal climate weren't so hostile against
women who choose to
birth at home, they might be more inclined to ask for help in the
first place.
this is not neutral ground, this is an incredibly loaded subject dealing with
women,
women's bodies, medicine, motherhood, etc, etc. and i find it incredibly irresponsible to present «orgasmic
birth» somehow as yet another new way of going through childbirth (while implicitly laying the blame of not achieving this on the mother) when it's obviously
first of all, not «orgasmic» in the commonly understood sense of the word, nor is it something that is
at all common or controlled by the mother.
It's better understood in retrospect (
first - time mamas take note) that
women in labor do NOT want to get in a car — staying
at home for the
birth, not having to come right home, and having post-partum home visits is pretty awesome.
Logically
at least 3 out of 4 of those deaths occurred in
women who were unsuitable for homebirth or occurred after the
first week, which would amount to a maximum of 1 in 10,000 preventable low risk deaths in the
first week after
birth.
It's not uncommon for
first pregnancies not to show until week 20 or later, with some
women never showing
at all until they're within a month of giving
birth.
Could it be that
women are ready to jump on the intervention train
at the very
first sign of something abnormal during the
birth process because they are scared shitless of what might happen if they DO N'T accept the intervention?
It says in the
first paragraph what has been mentioned in comments to you for the past few days:
women have the right to
birth at home, should be informed of the risks of setting and
birth attendant when OOH and the absolute risk is low for
women who are low risk.
The
first half is a collection of
birth stories from
women that have birthed
at The Farm, the midwifery center in Tennessee that Ina May and the Farm midwives built in the 1970's - and still run today!
Erin's HR background combined with her love of the birthing process (which started after seeing her
first birth at age 12) allow her to provide support to
women and families; truly getting to know them while gaining an understanding of their birthing goals.
What is so radical about this recent transformation is that it is the age
at which
women give
birth to their
first child which is becoming comparatively high, leaving an ever more constricted window of biological opportunity for second and subsequent children, should they be desired.
Here are the mortality rates (excluding lethal anomalies) for babies born to low risk
women that were confirmed to be alive
at the start of labor but die either during
birth (intrapartum) or in the
first week of life (early neonatal):
Women who are giving
birth for the
first time should be allowed to push for
at least three hours before induction or a cesarean is even brought up.
To help you prepare for the
birth of your baby — and in those
first few years — we're making it easy for you to access The Newborn Channel programs offered
at Women & Infants Hospital.
For low - risk
women having their
first baby
at home, the study calculated their risk of being admitted to intensive care or needing a large blood transfusion to be small - and similar to
women giving
birth in hospital.
For
women who end up pregnant after experiencing a sexual assault, they're
at a greater risk for experiencing longer labors, longer pregnancies, higher
birth weights, more terminations, earlier age
at first pregnancy, more medical problems, greater stress during pregnancy and more use of ultrasound.
Among
women who had a third or fourth degree tear
at first birth, 24.2 % were delivered by elective caesarean section, compared with 1.5 % of
women who did not tear
at first birth.
Furthermore, the report found that among
women who had a vaginal delivery
at second
birth, the rate of a severe tear was 7.2 % in
women with a tear
at first birth, compared to 1.3 % in
women without, a more than five-fold increase in risk.
First you say that there are only 0.7 % of
women with risk factors... then you list all these high risk
births you're attending
at home.
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.
Women were BUILT to give birth, OBGYNs are glorified surgeons, oh a BTW what about leaving sponges inside women, and all kinds if issues that come with surgery, and the fact that a hospital is full of germs and sick people, where as at home its the same environment moms been in the whole pregnancy... Hospitals smeared midwives when they first started cutting babies out, and they continue to do it, I wouldn't be surprised if they lied about the
Women were BUILT to give
birth, OBGYNs are glorified surgeons, oh a BTW what about leaving sponges inside
women, and all kinds if issues that come with surgery, and the fact that a hospital is full of germs and sick people, where as at home its the same environment moms been in the whole pregnancy... Hospitals smeared midwives when they first started cutting babies out, and they continue to do it, I wouldn't be surprised if they lied about the
women, and all kinds if issues that come with surgery, and the fact that a hospital is full of germs and sick people, where as
at home its the same environment moms been in the whole pregnancy... Hospitals smeared midwives when they
first started cutting babies out, and they continue to do it, I wouldn't be surprised if they lied about the stats
The risk of postpartum depression in subsequent
births was 15 percent for
women who took antidepressants following their
first birth and 21 percent for
women who sought depression treatment
at a hospital.
The
first combined
birth and wellness centre in Canada, we are delighted to offer
women and families a broad array of possibilities
at one location.
First - time parents; Parents of multiples; Cesarean section
birth / recovery; Families with little local support;
Women who want to breastfeed; Families with other young children;
Women at risk for or experiencing postpartum depression & anxiety; Premature
births / babies on apnea monitors;
Women who have experienced difficult deliveries; Babies with colic or reflux;, Families with high anxiety levels; Babies with special needs; New parents with limited experience with newborns;
Women who have been on bed rest throughout pregnancy; New parents with no family nearby.
Most
women these days are prepared to have a bit of a bulging belly in the
first weeks after the
birth and don't expect to be rocking that skintight tube dress before their six - week check up
at least.
First, the researchers aren't able to follow
women who intend to deliver
at home but later transfer to the hospital, which removes trauma patients from home -
birth statistics.
I had gas and air as well as dimorphene with my
first, my second was so fast I had no pain relief and this time I'm hoping to have another natural
birth at home with a birthing pool all
women are different and make their own choices with my
first I begged for an epidural and my mum said no and in all honesty I'm glad I didn't have it
I'm no expert, but in addition to the vast amount of research I did before my 2nd child (homebirth), my experience with an ob before I switched to a midwife with that same child, my experience with a medicated vaginal hospital
birth w / my
first child, my experience in talking to dozens of
women that have had surgical
births, in addition to all that anecdotal «wisdom», I have taken a graduate level Sociology of Medicine class that was an in depth look
at our current medical system from a sociological perspective and we spent a couple of weeks talking about the medical model of
birth and the alternatives.
At first glance, I thought this was some new Hollywood - inspired fad that allowed
women to look as if they had never been pregnant just days after
birth.
49
women giving
birth in a small community hospital in the USA planning to breastfeed for
at least 6 weeks and breastfeeding for the
first time.
In this study, the proportion of
women in the longest telomere tertile was higher for
women in the fourth quartile of maternal age
at the
birth of their last child than in the
first quartile (35.7 % vs 20.2 %).
Four years ago, Julia Sacher and her colleagues
at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health CAMH in Toronto already succeeded in showing that, in the
first week postpartum, the concentration of the enzyme monoamine oxidase A in the brain is on average 40 percent higher than in
women who had not recently given
birth.
Researchers examined 28,516 postmenopausal
women without cardiovascular disease from the Women's Health Initiative to test associations between total number of live births, age at first pregnancy lasting at least six months, and total reproductive duration (time from first menstruation to menopause) with incident heart fai
women without cardiovascular disease from the
Women's Health Initiative to test associations between total number of live births, age at first pregnancy lasting at least six months, and total reproductive duration (time from first menstruation to menopause) with incident heart fai
Women's Health Initiative to test associations between total number of live
births, age
at first pregnancy lasting
at least six months, and total reproductive duration (time from
first menstruation to menopause) with incident heart failure.
Downey used data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), administered by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), to analyze the age
at first marriage for
women and men in the U.S., broken down by decade of
birth.
Of the 201
women, 120 (59.7 percent) intended to breastfeed exclusively for
at least two months, 42
women (20.9 percent) combined breastfeeding with supplemental feedings within the
first two months after giving
birth, and 39
women (19.4 percent) did not breastfeed.
Women gave blood and urine samples in their
first trimester of pregnancy and allowed researchers to take measurements on the babies
at birth.
Women diagnosed with breast cancer, however, were significantly older
at the time they
first gave
birth (p = 0.03), an observation consistent with the original analysis of this case - control study [7].
From 322,972
women between the ages of 25 and 70, the team of researchers gathered data on how old the subjects were
at various female biological events —
first period, giving
birth, breast - feeding, menopause, etc. — and other factors that would have affected these events, like taking oral contraceptives.