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.
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.
Agreed!
Of our seven children, two were born at home. We should fight this absurdity of creating laws to ban births.
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.
Indeed. I know this is off topic, but if you want to look at a real revenue protection racket, take a look at the funeral industry. Used to be able to have your wake in your home there too. Now it costs about $4,000.00 to "rent" the funeral home and embalming etc. Add the cost of the casket and accouterments, and you are talking about 6 grand. In NY you can't even bring in a can of soda to drink either. Big Funeral must be stopped! Stop the windfall profits of death!
We’ve had four children at home, unassisted. No doctor, midwife, or complications.
Total cost to deliver four children was about $260. $180 of that was the first child, when we purchased out Rubbermaid tub, and plumbed the kitchen for it. It’s about $20 per child.
The five we had in hospitals had varying arrays of “intervention” that is in NO WAY beneficial to the health of the mother or child. The last daughter got an infection while in the hospital and required a week in an O2 tent.
Screw that!