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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a huge diff between a qualified and non-qualified home birth provider. This woman had 50 births and seems to be pro no intervention including prenatal care AND took a breech birth at home. That's what's irresponsible, not the idea of home birth, period.[/quote]

Yup. This. Home with a qualified midwife, someone who has completed a program at SUNY or similiar is just as safe as with an OB ina hospital.  The US would be wise to push for training more qualified midwives and making use of them the way the rest of the world does.[/quote]

actually a big study just found that the type of attendant does not matter - home birth is riskier no matter what. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-homebirths-newborn-mortality-idUSKBN20N0R0[/quote]

NP here. The important piece of the  findings was in the last two paragraphs. Learn to examine things beyond the headlines.

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the last two paragraphs where they find homebirth is dangerous no matter what kind of midwife?[/quote]

The important piece of the article is :

"The discrepancy between survival rates for home and hospital births in the U.S. is not seen in developed nations like England, the Netherlands, Germany and Australia.

These countries tend to screen expectant mothers for risk factors like age or obesity that might endanger their newborns if they opt for a home birth, the authors note in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology."

But it's not a sensational headline.  We don't do birth the right way in this country, but instead of  fixing that we'd rather have Ob vs midwife wars. Home birth vs Hospital birth wars.

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We’re not in Europe. So I don’t see what your point is. Here, home birth is demostrably more dangerous because midwives don’t screen patients, in part. (Netherlands also found a disparity based on income btw). [/quote]

Also the last two paragraphs in a research paper are not the conclusions. That’s just suggesting one hypothetical for the differences. [/quote]

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