On Natural Birth...
The real question about safety is not whether you want a pleasant
birth at home or a safe birth in the hospital ? It is, “Do you want
to give birth at home and run the miniscule risk of an emergency that
might (but not necessarily would) be handled better in the hospital,
or do you want to give birth in the hospital and run the considerably
increased risk of infection, the certainty of additional stress, and
the near certainty of having unnecessary (and potentially risky
interventions?”) ~ Henri Goer
Members of the home birth movement have chosen their alternative form
of care not through faulty understanding of medical principles, but as a result
of active and reasoned disagreement with them. ~ Bonnie O’Connor
