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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

 

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?”
Henci Goer, Author

 
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

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About Home Birth

All traditional peoples have birthing ceremonies. We must go back to our ancestral practices to ensure the healthiest passage for our children and women. Birth opens a woman's body, mind and spirit. It is a time of empowerment, a ceremony that allows women to bring in the next generation. ~ Clare Loprinzi, Traditional Midwife

 

 

The United States and Greece’s maternal and infant mortality rates are amongst the highest in the industrialized world with cesarean rates in the U.S. at 31% and 50% in Greece.

 

United States obstetricians are getting hard to find with the litigious situation arising, and in Greece there are no Baby-Friendly Hospitals. In contrast, Holland has a low maternal/fetal mortality rate where 1/3 of the women give birth at home and “maximum result with minimal intervention” is the goal.

 

Dutch studies show the more interventions birth has, the more need for further intervention and treatment of chronic problems for both mother and child. In Holland the more educated a woman is, the more likely she is to choose to birth at home.

 

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Birth is recognized as a natural process.

 

The midwifery model of care in the Netherlands where there is a unidisciplinary team approach amongst the homebirth midwives, hospital midwives and obstetricians is an approach that can help this crisis of high infant mortality and cost in the United States and Greece.

 

England is now following the Dutch model and their goal is to have a third of their births back at home by 2009.

 

*Wiegers, MJNC Keirse, J van der Zee, G A H Berghs. Outcome of planned home and planned hospital births in low risk pregnancies: a prospective study in midwifery practices in the Netherlands. BMJ 1996: 313:1309-1313 (23 November)

 

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