How they deliver their babies is one of the choices that women can make during their pregnancy. What I meant with how they deliver is whether they deliver a baby in the hospital or at their own homes. Most women don't know that they have a choice on how to deliver their babies because they think that giving birth at their own homes is dangerous. But of course that safety has been questioned.But if they just research and look for studies about this method then they will realize that there a lot of evidence that this method is safe.
There are definitely critics who do not believe in the safety of a homebirth. From my observations from my practice as a San Diego midwife 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.Having a baby in the hospital or at home doesn't make any difference in minimizing those risks.On the ohter hand, the risks also would not increase because of this.
So what are some of the dangers?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 homebirth midwife in San Diego we do know medical procedures.We have all the required medical equipment for all the common complications that appear when giving birth.It is but natural that any serious complications that would arise during birthing should be addressed by a doctor.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 San Diego licensed midwife.This is standard procedure because they are limited in the medical procedures that they can do.That the reason why they make sure that all high risk pregnancies be delivered in a hospital.
For those who do not like this method it will be very hard to convince them to do so. But for those women who see this as an alternative they should understand it is safe.
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