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Posted on 01/31/2012 6:29:47 AM PST by C19fan
An Australian woman who was a strong supporter of home births has died tragically, delivering her own baby daughter at home. Caroline Lovell, 36, was rushed to hospital in a critical condition after giving birth but could not be saved. Her daughter Zahra was delivered healthily.
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better than doing it at home in a kiddie pool with a crowd watching....
saw that in a movie while flipping channels.... kept flipping channels....
I meant, don’t do that either. please.
Doctors are a good idea.
Sad. RIP.
I vaguely thought it sounded like an interesting concept when I was pregnant with my first but I wouldn’t have risked it. Good thing too because my daughter didn’t present properly and I ended up having an emergency c-section after 28 hours of labor. I don’t think it would have gone well for either of us at home.
Yes, I don’t like how they push drugs and c-sections and things, but I also don’t think dying in childbirth - or losing the baby to something preventable - is a good outcome.
My grandpa was born in a little shack they used as a home along the railroad tracks during the Great Depression. Hard to believe... My wife had our twins at a beautiful, clean and comfy hospital in our state capital Columbus, Ohio.
we are blessed with all of this technology. It is smart to use it... not using it is boneheaded
Irony. We went from home births to hospital births for a reason.
I know many who desire this very thing, but they plan wisely.
A doc who knows the desire and is willing to mentor, doesn’t necessarily need to be present, just aware of the patient.
A good midwife present for the birth, who will know in advance when things are beyond her ability and/or are dangerous.
The hospital is informed well in advance of the pending birth and the conditions so that they are prepared for possible emergencies.
There are probably more things for the list. Many home births take place without any problems at all, and I don’t know the stats but it is entirely possible that infant mortality may be higher in the hospital for all I know.
Mrs WBill had a concept that she was going to do "Natural Childbirth" - with no drugs - on Kid #1. That idea lasted about until we got to the hospital and the contractions really hit.
She was also thinking a little about "alternative birthing concepts" like what the woman in the article was touting. Mainly because her primary doc was driven out of the OBGYN business by ambulance chasers like John Edwards, but I digress. Fortunately, the family and I talked her out of it, and she also found a women's center she liked.
Now on Kid #2? Drugs. Hospital. No questions. "That's what they're there for." And she'll gladly tell anyone who listens the same.
When they created forks to eat with. The smart people in the world started using them right away !
RIP and prayers for the baby.
That said, why would she need to “campaign” for this? Isn’t it already legal? Or did she want to make it mandatory? Or just raising “awareness”? I’m sure folks are already aware and opting for the hospital anyway.
Now - if the hospitals in the area were lousy, or if there were some other extenuating circumstances - well, other options are there.
But, all things considered, why would you *not* want the benefits of an experienced staff, and full hospital, on call just on the fairly sizeable chance that something could go wrong?
...and some of those early utensils were made out of lead.
No, I'm not a Luddite, and would certainly recommend anybody having any medical procedure to do it in a controlled medical environment (as much as possible). Having said that, with increasingly socialized medicine, there will (soon) come a time when doctors are not acting in the patient's best interest and hospitals are not the most sanitary of places. Just sayin'....
“When they created forks to eat with. The smart people in the world started using them right away !”
I’m withholding judgement until they say why she died.
This is anecdotal. It’s a single data point in something that has been studied for years. The simple fact is you are at no more risk at home than at a hospital . . . if you are young, have no complications and have an attending physician as well as a midwife (see “Perinatal mortality and morbidity in a nationwide cohort of 529,688 low-risk planned home and hospital births”. BJOG.)
This lady was 36. Was she seen by a physician? Was this something that would have been identified as an issue had she been seen by one? We don’t know. To jump to the conclusion that this is a bad choice for everyone is reckless generalization.
We had one born at home, and not by choice. It was by far the easiest birthing process. As soon as the hospital got involved I had to read every little thing the nurses did (and yes, they constantly tried to give my wife medications she was allergic to which would have caused her serious harm).
Oh, and my roommate in college was from Korea. He used chopsticks. He was smarter than most folks I know.
I digress, but why do all people one sees on TV or in movies eating chinese food use chopsticks?
Is it to look cool or cute... oh, look I’ve mastered these two stick things.
We have forks, people. Use them.
Yeah, but most people still don’t know how to properly use a fork (Brits, Europeans).
“Giving birth before the 20th century was a very dangerous thing.”
Those that do not know history are doomed to repeat it. Simply too stupid to live.
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