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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hospitals sometimes punish women who are homebirth transfers.  It's possible that this is what was happening in this case, which is why the jury awarded so much money.  Typically if a woman (who as not intending to deliver at home) arrives at the hospital in an emergency situation, the hospital is able to perform a stat c/s.  These things happen - a woman who had no prenatal care, a woman who has a premature baby delivering precipitously, etc, who are found to be in an emergency situation.

If you were birthing in the hospital, and it was decided that you needed a stat c/s, and they then took 2 hours to get you into the OR - wouldn't you be suing?

By the way, this midwife was licensed and 100% legal.  She had labs, medical records and labor history immediately available.  The severity of the situation can easily be relayed during the ambulance transfer.  My guess is that there were egotistical doctors who either refused to listen, or who purposely tried to teach the midwife and/or parents a lesson.  Thus the huge award.

For the doctors or other medical professionals who posted on this thread -- you come across as completely uneducated and ignorant.  Have you never bothered to learn anything about homebirth?  For starters, it is proven to be as safe as hospital birth.  And, it is completely legal, and the midwives have extensive medical training.  [/quote]

A certified midwife in my town died giving birth to her own child in a midwife center.  The delivery was going south and the midwife did not want to go to the hospital so transfer to the hospital was significantly delayed.  The baby survived, it's mother did not.[/quote]

There’s also the story about the nurse (married to a doctor) who died giving birth in a hospital. She tried to tell them something was wrong but nobody listened... She was a neonatal nurse and she died in the same hospital where she worked.

https://www.propublica.org/article/die-in-childbirth-maternal-death-rate-health-care-system

Then there are all the statistics about how black and Latino mother’s consistently get treated poorly and experience worse outcomes. Lots of bad outcomes at hospitals... [/quote]

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