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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone who comes to this forum and advocates for home birth might as well come in and advocate for ignoring seat belts and car seats. Sure, nothing bad will happen ... until you crash.[/quote]

Anyone who comes to this forum and likens home birth to not wearing your seat belt is ignoring the real actual scientific data (which may or may not say that planned home births are as safe or safer than planned hospital births, but definitely do not say that planned home births are as dangerous as not wearing your seat belt).[/quote]

Not the above PP, but I think what many people react to is the sense that you could be gambling with your baby's health/life if something goes wrong. I think home birth could be more appropriately compared to, say, mountain climbing. An amazing and beautiful experience when done with the proper precautions and knowledge about what you're getting into -- potentially life-threatening when it isn't.[/quote]

But giving birth, anywhere, is potentially life-threatening.

And mountain climbing is not a good analogy because you can either go mountain-climbing, or you can not go mountain-climbing. Whereas if you are pregnant, you have to give birth somewhere. So the question is: where is it best to plan to give birth? At home*, or at the hospital? The answer to this question depends on three things:

1. Your individual health and pregnancy.
2. Your individual definition of "best".
3. Your judgment about the various and conflicting studies that compare the outcomes of planned home births vs. planned hospital births. Because the fact is that there are scientific studies that show that the outcomes for planned home births are at least as good as the outcomes for planned hospital births.

*or at the free-standing birthing center[/quote]

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