Home birth

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I would never deny professional medical assistance when I'm blessed to have it available, just for the sake of bring natural.. Natural is great. But progress and safety advancement is also.

I've seen the business if being born.
I've seen beautiful videos,
But I've also read tons of true horror stories that the advocates don't mention.

A woman and baby are safer with a professional medical doctor in a place with any medical equipment that may be necessary in case something goes wrong, and you can never predict if something till go wrong by how healthy your pregnancy is.

The nerve of these midwives to blame a babies death on a mother, saying "she didn't trust her body enough" basically saying she killed her baby by being weak. Kid woulda lived in the hospital, with emergency care!

And the 2004 statistic if home birth being equally safe to hospital birth, the home births they used in that stat are from 2004 and the hospital births they compared to we're in the 70s. Do by conveniently leaving out the dates in their shady statistics, what you really uncover is that home birth today is just as safe as hospital birth in the 70s, in other words, not very safe...

An advocate of the practice who wrote a book on it, her baby died during the practice she heavily promoted. She was an expert. Goes to show how faulty the system is.

Those with their own agenda feed out all the beautiful imagery and perfect videos to sell the romanticism of it. Since its not that studied or that common, the ugly darker side can be drown out by the feminists who work so hard to persuade woman to "empower" themselves with this "natural art"

End of rant.
Hope I provoked some second thought in whoever may have fallen victim to this shady understudied practice, as I almost did.

Just like the vac vs no vac debate. really Home birth can be completely safe. Babies die in the hospital too all the freaking time.

I'm all for Hb but I now know in reality it would have been fatal for my most recent child. I had considered switching to a midwife for this preg and luckily I don't because I ended up with an almost undiagnosed complication tht would have been fatal to my child during birth. If I hadn't been with my amazing dr it would have gone undiagnosed. I've been told that by several doctors. And I had the most perfect and uncomplicated healthy pregnancy ever besides the stupid complication. Without my perinatologist u/s I could have went te whole preg thinking everything was perfect and ended up with a dead baby at 40 weeks.

If I could I'd birth at home. With a medical professional.

I'm not high risk for birth, but I am for pregnancy, so changing at 36w is not an option as I wouldn't home birth without a medical pro I knew we'll and I don't have that option with the way things work from 3-36w for me.

Birth is not a disease. Home birth is safer than hospital birth for properly screened women.

Personally I dont believe in home births. I would have died along with my son without a full on medical staff. But if someone has a traied professional there with them and want to do it at home then its their choice, just one that I would never make for myself. I didnt care about a "birth experience" I just wanted my baby and I to live through it.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Mandy Schlatterer:</b>" Hurtbyhomebirth.blogspot.com I would never deny professional medical assistance when I'm blessed to ... [snip!] ... Hope I provoked some second thought in whoever may have fallen victim to this shady understudied practice, as I almost did."</blockquote>




  I am pro homebirth had an amazing one. I had a heinous hospital birth I'd never want to do again.

"A woman and baby are safer with a professional medical doctor" you're wrong.

My MW was safer then the Ob that delivered my oldest. Plus the amount of equipment she hauled with her was unreal.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Rette Mich:</b>" Personally I dont believe in home births. I would have died along with my son without a full on medical ... [snip!] ... one that I would never make for myself. I didnt care about a "birth experience" I just wanted my baby and I to live through it."</blockquote>


Please don't imply that women who care about birth experience (and interventions which ARE risky in and of themselves and done far more often than necessary) don't care about the health of their child.

Quoting Brink:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Mandy Schlatterer:</b>" Hurtbyhomebirth.blogspot.com I would ... [snip!] ... wrong. My MW was safer then the Ob that delivered my oldest. Plus the amount of equipment she hauled with her was unreal."

Honestly I think some of cylus's issues were caused by his birth.   You can't tell me that trying to roll a mother back and forth to get a baby's heart beat up with pitocin on high while the baby's heart beat is dropping is really a good measure.   My midwife (although another hospital birth) with Audrianna was amazing! even my OB then said if I wanted to try a home birth she would have let me if IL would let a professional attend which they don't  

Quoting P Pickle Pants:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Rette Mich:</b>" Personally I dont believe in home births. I ... [snip!] ... which ARE risky in and of themselves and done far more often than necessary) don't care about the health of their child."

Umm where did I imply that? It was a statement. Now if I said

women who care about birth experience (and interventions which ARE risky in and of themselves and done far more often than necessary) don't care about the health of their child.

then yes I could see where you got that from...

<blockquote><b>Quoting Rette Mich:</b>" Personally I dont believe in home births. I would have died along with my son without a full on medical ... [snip!] ... one that I would never make for myself. I didnt care about a "birth experience" I just wanted my baby and I to live through it."</blockquote>




Yeah I forgot but come to think if it, both me and my brother would be dead if not for emergency equipment in the hospital at birth.

Some people even have preemies at home, by choice. No nicu, just kangaroo care.
Such a gamble.

I thought my husband was an ass for telling me absolutely not.
After more research, I love him deeper.
Every point he made that I ignorantly argued, I now see.

Good thing I see in time.
I was considering dropping my doctor and going it alone after all the beautiful propaganda I've seen.

<blockquote><b>Quoting P3RvYmCp3rv:</b>" Honestly I think some of cylus's issues were caused by his birth.   You can't tell me that trying to ... [snip!] ... OB then said if I wanted to try a home birth she would have let me if IL would let a professional attend which they don't   "</blockquote>

Are there any states that allow a doctor to attend? I assumed only midwives were allowed to do Hb.

Quoting Mandy Schlatterer:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Rette Mich:</b>" Personally I dont believe in home births. I ... [snip!] ... Good thing I see in time. I was considering dropping my doctor and going it alone after all the beautiful propaganda I've seen."

I don't think it's really propaganda...no more so than hospital births are always safer.

nice, I like this. People only ever talk about how fabulous home birth is, but they never talk about the tragic outcomes, most of which would have been prevented by emergency intervention. I have seen enough trainwreck cases in my time to know that many midwives are not as caring as they would have you believe - they are still looking out for number one.
I had a HVBAC lady that had been laboring and was stuck at 8cm for 2 days with mec stained fluid. The midwife finally started to see the writing on the wall and drove the woman to our hospital, but would not allow the husband to drive with. He had to drive separately. We have cameras outside the ER and we watched her literally lean over, open the passenger door and KICK (yes literally KICK) the woman out of the car onto the curb and speed away. Baby ended up being shipped to a NICU and was on a vent following an emergency c-section. Our doctor filed criminal charges against the midwife. The cops found out that the name she had given the family was a false one and the car that she drove was not her's, it was stolen. They never were able to track this "midwife" down. She almost caused the death of 2 poeple and certainly did not give a smurf about the woman at all. Had the midwife gotten her to the hospital when the mother originally BEGGED her to let her go in and get an epidrual, she would have almost certainly avoided a NICU stay and potentially could have had a VBAC rather then an emergent c-section. The midwife would not allow her to go in for the epidural, because that meant the woman was a failure and berated her for even asking for that "poison". This is just one of MANY examples of people being taken in by dishonest home birth midwives that I have witnessed.

<blockquote><b>Quoting P3RvYmCp3rv:</b>" Honestly I think some of cylus's issues were caused by his birth.   You can't tell me that trying to ... [snip!] ... OB then said if I wanted to try a home birth she would have let me if IL would let a professional attend which they don't   "</blockquote>




T has a lot of problems still from his hospital birth where the baby doesn't. Ugh don't get me started on pitocin lol

There are only 2 OBs and a MW around. She does over a third of all the deliveries on island. That's not to shabby.

Quoting lolajessup:" <blockquote><b>Quoting P3RvYmCp3rv:</b>" Honestly I think some of cylus's issues were ... [snip!] ...   "</blockquote> Are there any states that allow a doctor to attend? I assumed only midwives were allowed to do Hb."

In IL midwives can't even attend them or if they are found to they loose their state liscnese/cert.