“I’m pregnant, and I’m giving birth at home.”
This is how I know not to consider anything this person says.
This is how I know not to consider anything this person says.
I agree, my wife totally intended on a minimal medical intervention based birth. Still went to the hospital, just in case, as we had planned. Turns out that after hours of contractions, the birth was not going to happen (sparing the details) and a section was necessary after all. You simply can’t plan for this ahead of time.
no drugs either - although my partner had studied various breathing techniques
we also mitigated the risks as well with scans and monitoring, and the worse case stuff - we also knew with research what the approx risks where (I really can't rememeber those now) but I do remember that hospitals typically massively over react - which causes harm in itself
That's because you didn't fully understand the risks.
My wife is an ER doc (https://bessstillman.substack.com/), and her and many of her colleagues have seen the results of home births gone sideways.
Choosing a home birth to save money is a whole other thing. If she gets preeclampsia or has to go for an emergency c section she can count on a 6 figure bill.
It increases risk of death from 3.27/10000 to 13.66/10000. And that’s before confounding factors like high risk births are more likely to choose hospitals this pushing up the apparent risk of hospital births.