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There is no "U.S. experience" because of the absolute mess of our healthcare system. There are birthing centers that work very much like the process described a
by Fomite 5y ago
There is no "U.S. experience" because of the absolute mess of our healthcare system. There are birthing centers that work very much like the process described above.
- NateEag 5y agoIndeed - I have to give a plug for UPMC Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. My wife gave birth to all three of our kids there, and while it was more institutional than what's described above, they were big on skin-to-skin contact and leaving it to the parents to parent while the nurses and docs took care of medical needs. Staff was uniformly great throughout all of our births.
- minusf 5y agohow much did it cost if you dont mind me asking?
- tweetle_beetle 5y agoOf course no country of the size of the US has a single experience of anything. But in this case, it's about as close as it can be: 98.4% of births are in hospitals, with 0.52% in birthing centres [1]. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555484/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555484/