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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

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Ultrasounds: Sonograms or Doppler

 

“The largest study of its kind to date states that routine ultrasound does not benefit mothers or babies in terms of pregnancy outcome. It did not reduce the number of infant or maternal deaths and did not lead to better care for the newborn. The only thing it did was exposing the families to increased cost and risks. A study in Helsinki showed that the physiotherapists who used ultrasound equipment for 20 hours a week had a significant increase of spontaneous abortion.”

 

Ewigman, B., Crane, J.P., Frigoletto, F.D., et al. Impact of prenatal ultrasound screening on perinatal outcome. N Engl J Med 1993 Sept 16;329:821-7. LeFevre, M., Bain, R., Ewigman, B., et al.


A randomized trial of prenatal ultrasound screening: Impact on maternal management and outcome. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1993 Sept 15;169:483-9.

 

Babies exposed to five or more doppler ultrasounds were 30% more likely to develop

  • Intrauterine growth retardation.
  • Premature ovulation
  • Preterm labor or miscarriage
  • Low birth weight rates
  • Poorer condition at birth
  • Delayed speech development.
  • Not helping psychologically with women who terminated their pregnancies because ultrasound showed their baby dead.
    (Silver R, University of Utah School of Medicine, Reuters Health Obstetrics and Gynecology, June 2006)