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Posted By HGOER on 2/23/2008 9:42:50 AM
Subject: RE: my back-up OB backed out
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In a word, "yup," and you are quite correct that typical hospital management tends to increase the risk of excessive bleeding.

In any case, midwives can treat excessive bleeding at home in the same ways it would be done in the hospital: with meds and massaging the uterus. As I have said before, the urgent problems that may occur at the time of birth can be treated or stabilized for hospital transport by a home birth attendant with the appropriate skills, easily portable equipment, and the proper meds. And, of course, these problems will occur more rarely in women and babies not subjected to the harms of conventional hospital practices and policies.

-- Henci

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