Posted on 07/20/2008 10:38:24 AM PDT by BGHater
AMA Says Women Should Use a Hospital -- Some Doctors Disagree
The American Medical Association has agreed to support proposed legislation that, some physicians say, could make make having a planned birth in one's home difficult, to virtually impossible.
As of now, no actual legislation has been drawn up, but the AMA has agreed to back a measure called "Resolution 205," a request to support the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' (ACOG) position that home births are not safe.
"We are against home births, period," said Gregory Phillips, an ACOG spokesman.
Women who give birth outside of a clinical setting risk putting themselves and their newborns at risk, Phillips told ABCNEWS.com.
In an e-mail to ABCNEWS.com, AMA board member Steven Stack, MD, wrote that the AMA "stresses that the safest setting for delivering a baby is in the hospital or a birthing center within a hospital complex."
The influential medical groups -- AMA and ACOG -- now find themselves at odds with those who say women should have the choice to give birth at home or in a hospital.
The American College of Nurse-Midwives has issued an unequivocal statement in support of planned home births, citing a study in the British Medical Journal that showed home births to be no riskier than hospital births.
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Revenue protection racket. Home births are done all over the world.
We had our son at home with two experienced midwives, each with several hundred births notched. A major hospital is down the street if any problems developed.
It was a peaceful, familiar setting with incredible amounts of attention. Cost: $2,500. Included about a dozen pre- and post-natal visits. What a way to save billions in health dollars.
We had our son at home with two experienced midwives, each with several hundred births notched. A major hospital is down the street if any problems developed.
So what happens in an emergency? Chilbirth in humans is much more difficult in humans than for birth in other mammals due to the size of the baby's head. Sure traditionally most births happened in the home, but there were also high death rates for both the baby and the mother.
Sounds like the doctors are paying off the lawmakers.
Why all the concern? A “failed” home birth is merely one more abortion? Shouldn’t the pro-choice crowd be defending home births?
Not only should conservatives be birthing at home, we should not register our children into the system, home school them and teach them trades that they can make a living at for cash only. Of coarse that’s easy for me to say now that Mrs Boilingpoint and I are over child bearing age. Heh heh.
BINGO!
911?
So right in the middle of a difficult delivery you transport the woman to the hospital and get admitted to a hospital emergency room so a OB/GYN who has never seen the mother before attempts to save the lives of the mother and child.
Bribery of an elected official used to be a serious crime. But I guess those laws aren’t enforced anymore.
When seconds count, the ambulance is only minutes away.
Agreed!
Of our seven children, two were born at home. We should fight this absurdity of creating laws to ban births.
Shall a woman who accidentally has the baby at home (didn’t realize it was a preemie, or hubby didn’t get home in time to take her to hospital) now be faced with an investigation to see if it was an illegal home birth?
and btw, more than 30% of births in my state (ct) are c-section. Cha-ching for the doctors.
One generation before mine, my parents and their parents, were born at home. not only was that not unusual, but it wouldn’t have made a hell of a lot of difference if you were in a hospital or not in those days.
If you’re a low risk pregnancy, as my wife was, with proper available medical facilities nearby and experienced midwives there’s no more to worry about than a hospital birth.
Home births aren’t just something from the past. They’re very prevalent in modern societies today — for instance Japan and The Netherlands have high rates of home births, and their infant mortality stats are very low.
A few generations ago, midwifery was a trained profession. Not so much anymore.
Home births are as safe, or safer, since the germ-ridden hospital environment is avoided all together.
That being said, parents have the absolute right, imo, to have their children however they wish.
Sounds like you're "channeling" into my mind.
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