[Jenny Hatch]

Here is my Blog Entry on this recent Post Article:

Do It Yourself Delivery

Paul and Jenny Hatch - Jenny Hatchs Natural Family Site

The Paul Hatch Family

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My Comment:

A Wonderful Conversation has been taking place on the internet: On Blogs, in Chat Rooms, and on news web sites discussing the pros and cons of Unassisted Homebirth.

Please click on this link

http://www.naturalfamilyblog.com/archives/cat_diy_homebirth_debate.html

for a complete overview of the various discussions that have been taking place the past few months. And thanks WAPO for adding another voice to the conversation!

Jenny Hatch WWW.NaturalFamilyBLOG.com Mother of Five, our last two sons born at home...Alone!

Printable Version of this Article:

Lynn Griesemers Unassisted Homebirth Site

The Griesemer Family

David and Laura Shanley - Laura Shanleys BornFree Site

The Shanley Clan

Laura Shanley and Mairi Breen-Rothman Freebirth Movement Advocate; Certified Nursing Midwife Tuesday, July 31, 2007; 1:00 PM

Debate the advantages and disadvantages of delivering a baby at home without the help of doctors or other trained professionals.

I would like to thank the Washington Post and Staff Writer Sandra G. Boodman for writing a great article on this topic!

Jenny Hatch

[paul51]

Granted, I’m a male so maybe I don’t get it however it seems to me this is a foolish thing to do. If everything is OK, then all is well and good. If there is a problem or complication, the baby and mother are both at high, and seems to me unnecessary, risk.

[Jaysun]

My wife mentioned this while pregnant with our first child. I quickly dismissed it as crazy. I think it’s terribly irresponsible, and for what?

The number of neonatal deaths at home are triple that of those born in hospitals.

[Sir_Ed]

Friends of mine did this. Jacqueline, the mom, died in childbirth.

The doctors told her husband, James, that if she had been at a doctor’s her life and their babies life could have been easily saved.

Seems to me that it was almost tantamount to murder...

Ed

[Mercat]

Our second son is 27 1/2. We planned to do a home birth with him. We took the same training that they give EMTs. We set up a back up plan. And sure enough, after a long labor, my water had not broken and there was no way I was letting anyone do that outside a hospital so I presented at the hospital fully effaced and 99% dilated. The doctor (who was on call and had been fully briefed beforehand) arrived, broke the waters and Charlie was born, 9# 91/2 oz. But now, I would not want a daughter or daughter in law to do that. I think that the level of in hospital care has increased, there are more options, birthing rooms, etc.

[tdscpa]

If you want to have dozens of children, think of the money you can save.

Kind of like me learning to do my own plumbing. And electric. ZZZZAP!

I will do (and since retirement, have done, my own plumbing). Electric? No thanks.

[ovrtaxt]

I delivered my son at home, who is now 12. For my daughter, now 10, we had a midwife to help.

Looking back, we made some mistakes with the first birth. Nothing wrong with the actual event, but we had some incorrect motivations. They were corrected, and we moved on.

[VxH]

My daughter was breached and delivered via c-section in a Hospital, by a trained medical team .

If we’d followed your advice, she probably woudln’t be here sleeping in my lap - instead she and my wife would both likely be dead.

You live in Colorado. Go visit the cemetaries in the old mining towns and take a look at the gravestones. Mothers burried with newborn children are common.