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
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