HULU~DOCUMENTARY

watch Pregnant in America

Good documentary on homebirths.

I hope they all have ambulances outside .

Yeah, cause all women need to be in a hosptial to give birth. Just ask your great-grandma (or all those women in rural villages around the world who have no choice but to give birth at home).

There is a huge difference between being in some 3rd world country with no hospitals, and refusing to go to one when you are in labor. There are dozens of things that can go wrong during labor that require quick medical intervention. Cord prolapse, shoulder dystocia, dropping heartrate, the list goes on. Unless someone in your bedroom has the equipment and ability to do an emergency C-section if needed, then I think it's pretty damn selfish to insist on giving birth at home. There is never a guarantee that things will go as planned. A fetus can be brain damaged within 3 minutes of deprived oxygen. Who wants to take that risk and be guilt-ridden for the rest of their lives in case something goes wrong?
No thanks. But I guess I'm foolish like that.

i wish with all my wishing might that i was a canidate for a home birth... my labors are short.. fast.. and smooth... however i have a history of premature birth and that puts me out.. every women doesnt need to be in a hospital... hospitals are for sick people... im sure any smart women wouldnt put her child at risk just so she can have a homebirth..

 Yeah, I guess you are foolish like that. Several of the things you mentioned that could go wrong can be handled by a capable midwife, and the dropping heart rate issue is usually caused by intervention by medical staff (and rarely happens in an all natural birth, at a hospital or at home). Women around the world, and I am not talking about the 3rd world, give birth at home all the time because that is the norm, they only go to the hospital for high risk issues or complications. 

There is never a guarantee that things will go as planned in a hospital either, just refer to the very sad and unfortunate story that was just posted about a fellow OH's sister losing her baby WHILE IN the hospital. 

Having babies in the US is big business, and there is plenty of data to show how harmful that is to both mother and baby. Even with most women giving birth in a hospital in the US, we have a ridiculously high rate of maternal demise, most of which can be traced right back to the medical interveintion that the mother was given.

On May 2, 2011 at 3:17 PM Pacific Time, tripmom02 wrote:  Yeah, I guess you are foolish like that.

  Courtney you shouldn't get so offensive when people disagree with you. I believe YOU were one who was singing praises of a NICU who saved one of your sons at birth?
Do you remember a few years ago someone posting on the lapband board about what to do about a botched revision? My WLS accidently placed my lapband around some muscle next to my esophogus when he was trying to replace a slipped band? I was asking questions about legal issues and if it had happened to anyone.
Yeah that was me. Not only did you post several personal attacks, claiming I was a "pro-RNY'er" trying to cause problems on "your" board, but also tried tried to convince a huge group of people that I was lying and my story needed to be in a "Ripley"s Believe it or Not" book. Thanks.
So... maybe you should tone it down a notch. My motto is "better safe than sorry". Don't take it personal :)

 Wow, that was you. It was a long time ago and I don't remember the logistics, but I do remember that your story was ridiculous. 

And what I said was only offensive if you took offense, you called yourself foolish and I agreed. 

Comparing my very complicated triplet birth, to a healthy, normal pregnancy does not even make sense. I gave birth in a hospital b/c of complications, but I would never tell another woman that she was selfish to want to have a natural homebirth (like women for thousands of years before her) because I personally had complications that needed to be attended to in a hospital. 

Obviously you took what I said years ago very personally since you can remember it so clearly, maybe you should take a little of your own advice. 

I will never tone it down a notch, this is who I am, and when people use their uneducated opinions to try and scare other people into thinking that what they want is wrong or selfish, I will always speak up.

Funny you are trying to call out uneducated opinions...when I do remember you claiming what happened in my botched revision was medically impossible (yet it was done and I have the OR report, 2nd, 3rd revisions and scars to prove it). Do you normally attack every single screename that you are unfamiliar with and accuse them of lying? Since you supposedly have a medical degree, please explain how a midwife is supposed to handle a cord wrapped around a baby's neck in utero, or a dropping heartrate due to lack of oxygen. What exactly are they supposed to do in someone's bedroom with no medical equipment? Call an ambulance, maybe? Those complications can happen to anyone regardless if they are low or high risk patients.
Where did you go to medical school?

just because you deliever at home doesnt mean you forgo all prenatal care.. you still get the same level of prenatal care.. you do have ultrasounds and you go regularly for check ups... the midwife that delievered jaylyn handled the fact that she had her cord around her neck TWICE and her heart rate was dropping with every push.. she handleded it just fine.. and i didnt even know anything was wrong until after she was born... and she told me...do you really think that a midwife comes to your house with no equipment? thats absurd thinking.