October 10, 2009
Giving birth at home safely
One of the things that women can choose when having a baby is how they will deliver the baby. What I’m trying to say when I said how they deliver is where do they want to give birth-in the hospital or at their homes. Most women think that homebirth is not a safe method to give birth that is why they do not realize that they have a choice on how to deliver their babies.But of course there will be skeptics who don’t believe in this method. But with careful research they can see there is a lot of evidence to show that it is.
Now the safety of a homebirth has been questioned. From my observations from my practice as a midwife in San Diego I have found it to be absolutely safe. The risks are the same either in a hospital or homebirth as I have witnessed from the 300 homebirths I have assisted in.The risks is not minimized whether you give birth at a hospital or at your homes.But the risks would also not increase.
So what would be the main threat of undergoing a procedure like this?One reason is that complications might happen while giving birth and this worries people.They think that people who assist in homebirths are not nurses. Well as a midwives San Diego we do know medical procedures.All the necessary equipments for the common complications of a chilbirth are always with us.A doctor is obviously needed whenever any serious complications arise from gving birth at home.But that is not far from what happens in a hospital.
Now of course homebirths are only suggested for women who have low risk pregnancies. If a woman is found to have possible complications any good midwife would not encourage this method. This is standard procedure for all licensed midwife in San Diego.This is standard procedure because they are limited in the medical procedures that they can do. That is why they do make sure any high risk pregnancies are delivered in a hospital.
It will be very hard to convince those people who are not keen on undergoing this method.But for the women who likes to try this method then they should know that this method is safe if not as safe as a delivery in the hospital.
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