generally speaking, the rate of infections in most US hospitals is astonishingly high. as a general rule, get out of there as fast as you can after a procedure requiring a hospital stay - the post procedure chance of infection in the hospital can do alot more to harm you the underlying condition you went in for.
the former NYS lieutenant governor is on a crusade over this now:
http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=3624522
http://www.hospitalinfection.org/
"generally speaking, the rate of infections in most US hospitals is astonishingly high"
Ding ding ding....we have the real story here.
If mothers understood how at risk they and their babies were for a variety of infections, picked up at the hospital, the would never consider giving birth in that nasty environment. Certain forms of staph only live at hospitals.
I am a home birth advocate, I can only pray for this woman and the suffering she is experiencing. With all of the antibiotic resistent bacteria we have now, the safest thing one can do is to give birth in the sanctity of the home surrounded by familiar germs.
Jenny
Very interesting. I remember when I worked in nursing homes. I washed my hands every time I moved to a different patient.
Years ago I had an ulcer and my red blood count went dangerously low. My doctor wanted me to go into the hospital. I told him I was too sick to go to the hospital. I didn't want to get some sort of infection from strange bacteria.
our friends' son caught this after he went to the hospital for splitting open his knee... they billed them for the knee treatment and also for the streptococcus treatment... our friends' refused to pay for the streptococcus treatment since he caught while in their care... they backed off...