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Why are hospitals opposed to women giving birth at home?
Ha'aretz, Israel - Jul 31, 2008
If a mother wants neither hospital nor home birth, there is another option: Some midwives provide guest rooms. It is like a home birth, but without having ...
Detroit News Examines Debate Over Certified Professional Midwives ... Medical News Today (press release)
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?The Safety of Home Birth: The Farm Study.? American Journal of Public Health 82, no. 3 (March 1992): 450?453. Duran, AM. Dreher, Melanie C., PhD, et al. ...
Huncoat mum's home birth ordeal
Lancashire Telegraph, UK - Aug 1, 2008
By Deborah Lewis ? A MUM gave birth to her daughter at home after being sent away from hospital twice by midwives who said she was ?hours away? from labour. ...
Charlotte Church opts for second home birth
WalesOnline, United Kingdom - Jul 15, 2008
CHARLOTTE CHURCH will opt to have her second baby at home, the Western Mail can reveal. And her hopes of a second home birth ? daughter Ruby was born at ...
More Irish women are delaying childbirth
Times Online, UK - Aug 2, 2008
There are not enough independent midwives to have more than one at a birth. There are fewer than 20 in the country.? Hiring a midwife for a home birth costs ...
Home birth: A woman's right to choose?
MayoClinic.com - Jul 25, 2008
Today I wanted to say a little something about home birth which has been in the news lately. It evidently began because of a film that Ricki Lake produced ...

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Jennifer Block: A turf war over the maternity market
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Jul 12, 2008
The AMA ultimately passed the resolution without the Lake citation, but not before the Hollywood media got wind of it and home birth was thrust into the ...
US Medical Associations Fail To Support Women's Choice In Home ... Medical News Today (press release)
'Four midwives for 26 women' BBC News
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Laboring to save home births
Christian Science Monitor, MA - Jul 22, 2008
Most of those are hospital affiliated and unavailable for home birth. In the Amish farmhouses of this rolling hill country, Goslin is considered family. ...
Doctors' opposition to home birthing riles midwives, moms
DetNews.com, MI - Jul 28, 2008
I was relaxed," said Moskwa, 24, a stay-at-home mom who also is planning a home birth for her third child in August. "I didn't have to rush off to the ...
Home Birth Advocates Push For Change In Law
WXii 12.com, NC - Jul 14, 2008
Only a small percentage of American women choose to birth at home, but a high-profile controversy broke out recently when former talk show host Ricki Lake ...
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Meta-analysis of the Safety of Home Birth -
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Perinatal Death Associated With Planned Home Birth in Australia: Population Based Study. -
H Bastian, MJNC Keirse, PAL Lancaster - Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 1999 - obgynsurvey.com
... Because the relative advantages and drawbacks of home birth compared with hospital
birth remain uncertain, this study attempted to determine the perinatal ...

The safety of home birth: the farm study. -
AM Duran - American Journal of Public Health, 1992 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... between 1971 and 1989 with a home birth service run ... Neonatal mortality in Missouri
home births, 1978-84 ... M. Do obstetric intranatal interventions make birth safer ...

Infant feeding and infant growth -
JF Seward, MK Serdula - Pediatrics, 1984 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... between the following nondietary factors and growth failure: high birth order (greater ...
number of children less than 5 years old in the home, birth weight less ...

Birth places: a geographical perspective on planned home birth in New Zealand. -
S Abel, RA Kearns - Soc Sci Med, 1991 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in … -
KC Johnson, BA Daviss - BMJ, 2005 - Mass Med Soc
... Medline abstract (Free). 3. Vedam S. Home birth versus hospital birth: Questioning
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Home birth in New Zealand 1973-93: incidence and mortality. -
G Gulbransen, J Hilton, L McKay, A Cox - NZ Med J, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... 93, national and regional (1991 and 1992 only) incidence of home birth in New Zealand,
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Perineal Outcomes in a Home Birth Setting -
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Is a home birth the right choice?

 Women who wish to give birth at home will be given every encouragement under new plans to shake up maternity care. However, the Government would first need to address a national shortage of midwives, critics say.

Here two mothers talk about whether a home birth was the right option for them...

YES

Darja Brandenburg-Antory, 32, is a psychologist. She lives in Coventry with her husband David, daughter Dewi, two, and son Damai, three months.

I had had my first child in hospital and although I didn't have a bad experience, I didn't like the clinical, soulless environment.

So when I found out I was pregnant again, I chose to give birth at home. Having a baby should be a celebration and I wanted my son's arrival to feel that way - special to us instead of just another birth in a maternity ward.

People often worry that if something goes wrong the baby will be in danger because you aren't in a hospital. If you live very far from a hospital then this is a consideration, but as long as you have a midwife with you there shouldn't be a problem.

 

She should spot any issues long before they become life-threatening, which means you have plenty of time to call an ambulance. Of course there are risks, but childbirth carries risks regardless of where you have the baby.

My husband also believed this to be the best option because all the equipment necessary, such as monitors, can be used at home. He wanted to be sure the baby and I would be safe.

No epidural

The only things you can't have are pain-relieving drugs such as pethidine or an epidural, and if you need intervention such as a caesarean you will have to go into hospital.

I went into labour at 38 weeks on January 29 this year. Immediately we started to prepare the house for the birth, filling a birthing pool, protecting the floor with plastic sheets and lighting aromatherapy candles to help me relax.

My waters broke in the evening and for the next 12 hours my contractions were light. The next day I was able to go for a walk and have a lovely breakfast with my husband and daughter Dewi. There was no sense of panic or stress.

David and I both wanted Dewi to be present throughout. I had explained to her what would happen and she was very excited about it all. Childbirth is an amazing, natural thing that children should be allowed to see. There is no reason why kids should be left out.

Dewi loved being there. She didn't see the baby coming out but she was in the room the whole time, being looked after by my friend and my husband, while the midwife attended to me.

As with my first baby, I didn't suffer any terrible pain and had a very easy delivery. At 1.30pm I gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Damai, who weighed 6lb4oz.

I used gas and air, but had no need for any other pain relief. The midwife told me it was a textbook home delivery.

 
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Perfect day

I was much more relaxed than during my first labour, partly because I knew what to expect and because I was at home. The midwife ran me a bath and afterwards we opened a bottle of champagne and sat on the couch celebrating our new arrival.

We sat there for hours just holding him, and it was wonderful to be able to put the baby straight into his cot in his own bedroom. It was the perfect day.

Here's what readers have had to say so far. Why not add your thoughts below?

It's not a question of whether a home birth is "the right choice". It is not right or wrong to have a home birth, it is down to personal preference. What does concern me is the possibility of more women being "encouraged" to have home births as a cover-up for lack of maternity resources in hospitals.

- Anonymous, UK

I wanted a home birth but was scared out of it by my midwife. Instead I went to a small midwifery unit. Not the large clinical maternity unit in the city. There was no doctors, no epidural available but plenty of midwifes and a relaxed 'homely' feel. It was a wonderful alternative. The aftercare was fantastic and as I was so exhausted it was greatly appreciated. I had a room to my self with ensuite! The midwifes took care of baby in the night so I could sleep. I think this option should be made more available and known about.

- Dawn Miller, exmouth, devon

I had three of my six babies at home, and was told by my midwife that it would be fine for me to have pethidine if I so wished for pain relief in addition to gas and air. In the event, the very fact that I was relaxed and in my own home, able to receive support from people I chose to have with me, and to mobilise normally and take up whatever position I was most comfortable with were enough to enable me to cope with the pain, and I found all three a very satisfying and rewarding experience.

- Petra Pell, Leeds, UK

 

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