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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

Caesarean Section (C-Section) Information

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Caesarean Section is Major Abdominal Surgery

Elective caesarean carries the risk of documented medical risks to the mother’s health:

• anesthesia complications

• iatrogenic infections requiring diagnostic evaluation for mother and baby

• wound at the point of incision

• injury to other organs

• increased chance of psychological problems (including but not limited to postpartum depression)

• increased maternal morbidity

 

An elective cesarean section poses striking risks to the infant’s health

• breastfeeding and bonding are interrupted

• drugs have a great effect on the baby, emotionally and physically

• Respiratory Distress Syndrone a problem in one out of eight babies

• greater risk of prematurity, low birth weights, birth injuries, SIDS, lower apgar scores

• infections including staph and MRSA • increased likelihood of ending up in intensive care