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....
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.
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.
“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.
One of Dad's favorite stories was being called for a home delivery in a blinding South Dakota blizzard. Riding in a wrecker from a local garage, he managed to make the six mile trip to the farm in about two hours but only to find the mother was in full breech birth. Not wanting to do a C-section on the kitchen table, he called the local train depot ...fortunately the trains were still running and he arranged for the train to stop at a nearby crossing. Riding with the Mother in the wrecker about a mile to the crossing, he managed to get himself and the mother into the mail car for what he described as a very cold trip to a Sioux Falls hospital for a C-section. Both mother and baby survived the ordeal.
Quote from a friend in the medical field~ “Home deliveries should only be for pizza (not babies).”
My daughter recently gave birth at home to a 9.3 lb. baby girl. I tried to convince her to have it at the hospital and was worried but fortunately everything was OK.
We had our last child in our bedroom, and if we have another, we will do it again. Incredible, wonderful experience. I can’t imagine how the MOTHER died. Any risk is 99.9% on the baby. Did she have undiagnosed preeclampsia or someting? Heart condition?
Uh, no. Little Zahra may have been born healthy, but she was not "delivered healthily" if her mother died in the process. My Kathleen was "delivered healthily."