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The Risks of a Postterm Pregnancy
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Home birth midwives dismiss many risks in pregnancy as being "variations of normal." They use this term to ease the mind of co...
MANA's "Best Evidence" Shows Homebirth is Unsafe
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Families thinking about home birth are often told, either by their midwives or by the blogs and websites that advocate for home birth, th...
Gavin Michael
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In February 2014, a woman named Danielle was nine months pregnant with her son Gavin Michael and planning a home birth. Her midwife was...
Babies Die in Hospitals Too
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Yes, they do. Most babies that die at hospitals cannot be saved despite all of equipment there just for them, and the training and skill o...
Freestanding Birth Centers
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When I was pregnant with my first and reading "What to Expect When You're Expecting" about hospitals, birth centers, and ...
The Qualifications of US Home Birth Midwives
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In trying to understand why the risks of home birth are so elevated compared to hospital birth, it's important to understand the "...
The Coalition for Safer Home Birth
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In response to the increased death rates at home birth and the lack of regulation and accountability of home birth midwives, an citizen-led...
Home Birth After Cesarean (HBAC)
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What is an HBAC? A vaginal birth after a previous cesarean section is called a VBAC. A home VBAC is often called an HBAC - home birth a...
Five Minutes to the Hospital
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Distance from an operating room during childbirth matters. If you give birth in a hospital, if there is an emergency you are literally do...
Home Birth Death in Hawaii
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A newborn died last Wednesday as the result of an attempted home birth in Hawaii. From the Hawaii Tribune Herald : "One obstetricia...
Honest Midwife
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Earlier this year, a former CPM midwife spoke out. She started a new blog called "Honest Midwife" to pull back the curtain and...
Hurt By Homebirth
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When I was first learning about home birth, I found the site " Hurt By Homebirth ." The stories that I read profoundly affected me...
Doesn't the US have a high infant mortality rate?
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Home birth advocates often say that hospital birth is clearly unsafe, as the "United States has one of the highest infant mortality rat...
The Johnson and Daviss Study
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As I discussed in the last post , we can only use studies that use home birth data from the United States to determine whether home birth...
Why international studies do not show American home birth is safe
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Home birth in the United States is very different from home birth in other developed countries. Different Midwives In countries like Ca...
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