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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you watched the documentary “Why Not Home?” It’s very well done and walks thru the evidence on home birth risk. It surprised me to see medical professionals opting for home birth. One OB equated it as a personal comfort level with risk, similar to how we choose to drive our kids around in cars despite the high rate of accidents. [/quote]

I was reading today about the Turnaway study (the longitudinal study of women who sought abortions, some of whom received abortions and some of whom were turned away).  While many states are trying to restrict access to abortions due to concerns over risk, 2 of the women in the study who were denied abortions went on to die as a result of childbirth.  As a society we're terrible at risk management.  We don't even think about the risks of getting in a car to go to the hospital and of interventions like epidurals and pitocin, not because they are risk free but because they are commonplace.

Of the women who've had traumatic birth events, one was due to a placental abruption, one had a c-section with inadequate pain management, and one had a badly managed birth that railroaded her into a c-section that left her in pain until she had a complete hysterectomy years later.  All planned hospital births and all would be considered normal outcomes (and the latter two probably not considered traumatic by the medical community).

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