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Anonymous wrote:It seems like everyone i know who delivered in a hospital had some kind of emergency.

I delivered my first at a birth center and the next two at home. I was late 30s /early 40s.

You must not know very many people then. I don't know anyone who delivered in a hospital who had an emergency. What does that even mean?

I have a friend who delivered at a birth center and literally almost died a week later. She spent a week in the hospital apart from her newborn. Not even related to the actual birth, she got an infection and went septic. City had to go shut the center down I believe.

Another friend was in a highly rated hospital and they didn’t notice the baby’s heartbeat had stopped. Emergency c-section, baby had to be revived, air lifted to children’s. Spent weeks in NICU and is moderately disabled with CP.

You just have to accept that every single aspect of having a child is a crapshoot.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like everyone i know who delivered in a hospital had some kind of emergency.

I delivered my first at a birth center and the next two at home. I was late 30s /early 40s.

You must not know very many people then. I don't know anyone who delivered in a hospital who had an emergency. What does that even mean?

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like everyone i know who delivered in a hospital had some kind of emergency.

I delivered my first at a birth center and the next two at home. I was late 30s /early 40s.

Unfortunately I know of two home births in dc that ended up in ambulance rides to the hospital. One was for hemorrhaging, no prior complications. Glad it worked out for you though.

Yep. One of my friend is super crunchy and had a planned homebirth. She went full term but the baby had IUGR (another “natural” condition) and her midwives missed it completely. She transferred in the middle of labor due to fetal heart rate issues and almost gave birth in a car. Midwives dropped her at the door and never spoke to her again. Thank god they made it to the hospital because her baby was 4 lbs and needed a NICU immediately. The only people I know who like their homebirth experience are people who had uncomplicated deliveries.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like everyone i know who delivered in a hospital had some kind of emergency.

I delivered my first at a birth center and the next two at home. I was late 30s /early 40s.

Not me! Was quite content with my experiences in the hospital. Glad you had your own good experiences.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like everyone i know who delivered in a hospital had some kind of emergency.

I delivered my first at a birth center and the next two at home. I was late 30s /early 40s.

Unfortunately I know of two home births in dc that ended up in ambulance rides to the hospital. One was for hemorrhaging, no prior complications. Glad it worked out for you though.

Anonymous wrote:It seems like everyone i know who delivered in a hospital had some kind of emergency.

I delivered my first at a birth center and the next two at home. I was late 30s /early 40s.

I didn’t! I had a scheduled induction at the hospital and it went great. I’m glad you had great births elsewhere but there’s just no reason to fear monger.

It seems like everyone i know who delivered in a hospital had some kind of emergency.

I delivered my first at a birth center and the next two at home. I was late 30s /early 40s.

I went to Capital Women’s Care and told them I really wanted to avoid being induced to the extent possible and all of the providers were fine with that (they rotate OB’s so I saw several throughout my pregnancy). They scheduled my induction for 41+2, but I delivered naturally at 40 + 5 (36 y.o., no other preexisting conditions). I had a good experience with all of the providers at CWC.

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Anonymous wrote:It's so fascinating to me that pregnancy and child birth are pretty much the only medical situations people so eagerly discount medical experts under the view of "my body, my choice."

No one tries to tell a heart surgeon when to do a procedure.

That’s because pregnancy and childbirth is a natural condition, not an illness. And yes, many times medical interventions are needed, and we are lucky that they are available, but they are not always necessary.

I mean, having an heart attack is also a natural Condition. So is getting cancer or dementia. So is having a birth defect. So is dying. The great news is we live in a free country where you can go freebirth next to a river, and I can have my scheduled C section. As someone who had many birth complications that were “natural” (malposition, preeclampsia, hemorrhage), I was glad to be next to a cart of medical interventions and not in a hut somewhere with some lay midwives, but you do you.

Anonymous wrote:It's so fascinating to me that pregnancy and child birth are pretty much the only medical situations people so eagerly discount medical experts under the view of "my body, my choice."

No one tries to tell a heart surgeon when to do a procedure.

That’s because pregnancy and childbirth is a natural condition, not an illness. And yes, many times medical interventions are needed, and we are lucky that they are available, but they are not always necessary.

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Anonymous wrote:Bloom are absolutely not your people on this. They are the definition of folks who schedule inductions for convenience.

This is absurd. I went to Bloom, chose a 39 week induction and the doctors have no say over when it is scheduled (Sibley makes that decision), Sibley rescheduled mine twice due to a nurse or bed shortage, and you have no idea how long an induction will take before you are ready for the doctor to come in and deliver. Bloom has a doctor on rotation all the time at Sibley. Why do people think doctors have a conspiracy against their health?

Not a conspiracy. Perverse incentives.

An OBs incentive for potential predictability, additional revenue, ease of scheduling and protection from liability is at times in conflict with a patients incentive for potential better recovery and early neonatal period for their infant.

This doesn’t mean they’re conspiring it just means a well informed patient needs to be aware of all the levers acting on an OB and advocate for herself and her own best outcome.

It’s naive to think every OB prioritizes the optimal recovery over predictability.

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Anonymous wrote:Bloom are absolutely not your people on this. They are the definition of folks who schedule inductions for convenience.

This is absurd. I went to Bloom, chose a 39 week induction and the doctors have no say over when it is scheduled (Sibley makes that decision), Sibley rescheduled mine twice due to a nurse or bed shortage, and you have no idea how long an induction will take before you are ready for the doctor to come in and deliver. Bloom has a doctor on rotation all the time at Sibley. Why do people think doctors have a conspiracy against their health?

Experience.

Anonymous wrote:Bloom are absolutely not your people on this. They are the definition of folks who schedule inductions for convenience.

This is absurd. I went to Bloom, chose a 39 week induction and the doctors have no say over when it is scheduled (Sibley makes that decision), Sibley rescheduled mine twice due to a nurse or bed shortage, and you have no idea how long an induction will take before you are ready for the doctor to come in and deliver. Bloom has a doctor on rotation all the time at Sibley. Why do people think doctors have a conspiracy against their health?

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Anonymous wrote:Whaaat? I was 41 and delivered at 40 weeks and then 42 and delivered at 41 weeks. Ohhh the good wise women of midwifery.

I guess if baby coming out of your vagina matters more than avoiding an “intervention” and not caring about an increased risk of stillbirth, sure.

This is how they operate. This method is no longer effective with most of us here.

We hire you to assist us, not to propagandize us.

Not quite to assist me.
I "hired" my OB to give me the best medical advice to ensure the best outcome for me and my baby.

In most of the world, women deliver their own babies, utilizing professional assistance as needed.

In America, you typically race to the hospital (not too early and not too late!) to get your babies delivered by a strangers dashing around in a white coats who treat you as another “case” to get check-in, processed, drugged, and sent home. Somewhere in that hustle, your child gets extracted, processed, and inoculated according to pharma protocol. “Good luck, guys!” - as you get rolles out the door.

Thank God we have more options for those of us who feel that giving birth to our children is so much more than just another medical procedure, and should be treated accordingly.

Anonymous wrote:I DO NOT put my blind trust in anyone. I do my own research.

I did deliver in a hospital, but did not arrive til I was nearly 9cm and delivered within the hour. No drugs, absolutely. Plan on doing the same with my 2nd, due in November.

What kind of ignorance thinks no drugs is a positive thing, you do that if you are in the village with the witch doctor