More home births will lead to more dead babies. Sad fact.
I understand they want to cut costs but they shouldn’t do so by lying to mothers.
Don’t get me wrong, home births CAN go fine obviously with a trained midwife but implying there’s something wrong with going to the hospital? Poppycock. There are a lot of stupid young (and not so young) parents out there. The government tells them stay home to have the baby and they will and something will go wrong.
Case in point. Tell her to have her baby at home. I dare you.
This is not a "fact." I understand you believe this, but it is your supposition, not a fact.
Planned homebirths tend to be very safe. This is because most mothers who choose to have a homebirth are healthy and psychologically mature women. Their main concern is the welfare of their babies. Most will choose NOT to have a homebirth if they have medical conditions that might lead to complications (e.g. diabetes or high blood pressure).
These women will have planned carefully. They will not insist on sticking with a homebirth plan if there is any indication, at any point, that the birth would be safer in the hospital. They will always have a back-up plan to get to a hospital asap if necessary.
As for those "stupid young" women out there that you refer to -- guess what? They are NOT going to have a home birth.
Why? Because these stupid types tend to be scared to death of pain and are completely unwilling to put up with it. They will demand their epidural when the time comes! (And since they're often getting Medicaid, they don't pay for the costly anesthesia -- YOU do.)
I know this because I've had hospital births (3), and one home birth. During the hospital births, I heard other women in labor in adjoining beds, and believe me, the Medicaid types are definitely out to milk the hospital for all services they can get (and speaking of milk, they will NOT nurse their babies, but will demand free formula). These women will never have a homebirth ... unless it's by accident.
I believe that homebirths are actually safer, for both mothers and infants, as long as the mother has had a healthy pregnancy. Having experienced both kinds of births myself, I have plenty of anecdotal evidence. And I think there are statistics out there that will bear me out. But, that's a topic for another day.