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AUSER on 5/18/2006 9:23:58 PM |
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What do you think about this Henci?
This is quoted from an OB
"I'll try to find some good statistics for you, but I think that looking at homebirth midwives themselves will give you a good idea of what is going on.
Take the BMJ study for example. There were 7228 midwife patients included in the study. Of these, only 5418 were cleared for homebirth by the time labor began. So 1810 women (fully 25%!) were transferred by the midwives themselves before labor began.
Then 655 women were transferred by their midwives after labor began. So, out of the original group, the midwives transferred 2465 women, fully 34% of their own patients, to the hospital, because they felt that the situation had become too complicated for them to handle.
That gives you a good idea of what we are dealing with. In the lowest of the low risk populations, 34% of women developed problems that were too serious for homebirth midwives to handle.
That's a pretty astounding figure when you think about it. That means over a third of all women who were considered low risk at the start of pregnancy developed a significant complication of pregnancy or childbirth. Even I'm surprised by how high the proportion is! "
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And if it's not too much of a hassle, could you name the studies that show homebirth is safe? By: Anonymous |
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