Home Birth |
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Many couples plan homebirths because they believe that most of the time pregnancy and childbirth are normal functions of a healthy body, not a potential life-and-death crisis that requires the supervision of a surgeon. |
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At home, you decide where to deliver, you can move around as you desire, decide who you want there. There is no risk of unnecessary interventions, you can eat your own food, cuddle in your own bed, have a waterbirth, have siblings there or not. |
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Birth in a hospital is a recent cultural phenomenon, not based on research. |
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Home Birth Safety |
| "SAFETY OF ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO CHILDBIRTH" |
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Summary of Critical Points by Peter F. Schlenzka |
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Doctoral thesis comparing safety and costs of natural, out-of-hospital birth with in-hospital obstetric births. He finds out-of-hospital births to be slightly safer and significantly superior in terms of economic costs ($13 billion annually) and social costs (reduced incidence of birth trauma and bonding disorders). |
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| Outcomes of intended home births in nurse-midwifery practice: a prospective descriptive study |
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CONCLUSION: Home birth can be accomplished with good outcomes under the care of qualified practitioners and within a system that facilitates transfer to hospital care when necessary. |
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| Research on the Safety of Homebirth |
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Compiled by Michael J. Stark, Ph.D. for the Maryland Friends of Midwives |
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| Planned Home Birth is Safe for Most Mothers and Babies |
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Healthy women with qualified care providers, usually midwives, can have safe home births. |
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The Safety of Home Birth
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Home birth can be a safe option for 90% of mothers, with appropriate prenatal care and attendant personnel. |
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| Home versus hospital deliveries: follow up study of matched pairs for procedures and outcome |
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Objective - To assess procedures and outcomes in deliveries planned at home versus those planned in hospital among women choosing the place of delivery. |
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Home Birth Safety |
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Safe in selected women, and with adequate infrastructure and support |
