tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741036541041672560.post4455265170478342057..comments2024-03-24T12:47:49.253-04:00Comments on Dou-la-la: I think ICANAnnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019907275666753543noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741036541041672560.post-58491806224344782632009-08-14T20:34:26.256-04:002009-08-14T20:34:26.256-04:00Dr. Lewis Mehl did a study comparing home and hosp...Dr. Lewis Mehl did a study comparing home and hospital birth with mothers from California and Wisconsin with matched populations of 2,092 mothers for each group. Midwives and family doctors attended the homebirths; OBGYNs and family doctors attended hospital births. Within the hospital group, the fetal distress rate was 6 times higher. Maternal hemorrhage was 3 times higher. Limp, unresponsive newborns arrived 3 times more often. Neonatal infections were 4 times as common. There were 30 permanent birth injuries caused by doctorsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741036541041672560.post-62720676283330773902009-08-14T14:04:45.290-04:002009-08-14T14:04:45.290-04:00Above all, I totally support women's choices t...Above all, I totally support women's choices to labor however they prefer, as long as they're making informed choices, which I am certain is true in your case! I'm sorry your SIL had a bad experience - I'm always sympathetic to any bad experience, but I certainly can share with you scores upon scores of home births that were just the opposite. But that's not to take away from YOUR preferences, either! I absolutely support your choices - if you feel that's best for you, then I trust that it is.<br /><br />And believe me, I AM grateful for the many advances we've made in health and safety in the cases where complications do occur. If you read my birth story, you'll see that up until week 34, I was facing the very real possibility of a c-section for one of the few circumstances where surgery is non-negotiable. If my previa had not migrated, without modern terchnology, one or both of us truly could have died. So believe me, I am thankful.<br /><br />As for UNassisted birth, I personally do have some reervations, concerns, and issues with it, which will likely be the topic of a future post, though it ultimately still has to come down to choice.Dou-la-lahttp://dou-la-la.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741036541041672560.post-53461707724934545992009-08-13T17:52:23.199-04:002009-08-13T17:52:23.199-04:00I guess I come from the oter side of things. My SI...I guess I come from the oter side of things. My SIL just had a home birth that was such a horrible expreience for her that she tries to block it from her memory. I contrast that with hanging out with slade for six hours in no pain until they handed me my baby. The docs have cured the curse of eve for us and I am just not sure what is so bad about that. Until I hear "get this woman to a one bedrooom appartment, stat!" I will be grateful for the progress they have made to eliminate the suffering and death of women and children because of what often happens with unassisted births because they have tried so hard to solve the problems that often happen.morganspicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15302390413214352913noreply@blogger.com