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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's post some articles on how many women and babies have died because they went to a hospital instead of staying home. I guarantee the number far exceeds the number mentioned in this article. Home births are always safer. Fact. Of course there are a few outliers for whom a hospital birth is necessary, but they're truly outliers. Most home births are safe and most are much safer than being in a germy money making hospital with dozens of hands in the pot, none knowing what the other is doing. Women, especially black women, die in hospitals every day. The United States has the WORST infant mortality rate of ANY developed nation, and we also have the highest rate of hospital births.

Also, it says she wasn't licensed IN THAT STATE, not that she had no training and wasn't licensed at all anywhere.[/quote]

That they are receiving poor care in the hospitals they give birth in doesn’t make the home environment safer. 
What they should be receiving is better medical care, not having home births.

Home births aren’t better for things like excessive bleeding, preeclampsia, pulmonary embolism, cardiomyopathy and yes - infection too. 
Being in a hospital can at least mean that an infection is diagnosed earlier, hopefully saving a life.

A home birth might go okay for a low risk pregnancy, but it also might not and medical care needs to be provided immediately if needed. [/quote]

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