Are Homebirths Safe?

Are Homebirths Safe?

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Having your child in the home? Who does such things? Wasn't that just back in the western days when doctor's had to deliver babies at home out on the prairie?

Not quite. There are a growing number of women who have discovered the benefits of having your baby at home, or a homebirth as it is commonly called.

The practice of homebirths is usually called midwifery. Although usually not nurses or doctors, the people who are in midwifery are professionally regulated.

The people, generally women, who perform this line of work are called homebirth midwives. Midwives is the term most people are familiar with and means a person who helps during childbirth by providing support of the labor and delivery.

Now a midwife is usually not a nurse or doctor because in general a midwife generally believes that pregnancy and births are natural events and should be allowed to proceed naturally without drugs. This is contrasted with the medical model which believes that pregnancy and delivery should be accompanied by medicine to assist and improve the situation.

With that taken care of, lets examine why women are choosing to have babies at home. What benefits are making women choose homebirths?

First off, with the continued presence of the midwife, the length of labor can be reduced. Most women aren't told that pain medications actually slows down the labor, even though it helps with the pain. This really causes more pain and the labor actuallly lasts longer.

Second, midwifery techniques in reality reduce the need for forceps or other intrusive devices during delivery. The technique of letting the birth and delivery to occur naturally is what reduces the need to use those devices.

Third, cesarean delivery possbilities are reduced. {{{Most cesareans are performed because during labor, somehow a consensus was made that a natural vaginal birth was not possible|Most c-sections happen when during labor, it was thought that a natural birth process was not possible|Most cesareans that happen in labor were because it was thought that a vaginal birth was not possible}. Either it was the baby's safety that was in mind or the mother's safety}. When in reality the complication was created because the natural birth process wasn't allowed to happen.

These are 3 benefits when you have a natural homebirth. There are a lot more benefits, but I am positive most women who are pregnant would say these are 3 huge benefits.

So even though some might call it strange to have a child at home, recent studies indicate that allowing a natural birth to happen is much safer for the mom and the baby. With mostly success stories abounding about homebirths, it's hard to argue that point.

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