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“I’m pregnant, and I’m giving birth at home.” This is how I know not to consider anything this person says.

by bhpm 3y ago

123pie123 3y ago
why? (from the UK) my partner gave birth at home - twice in a big blow up swimming pool thing - we did have local maternity nurses here, although they was extremely helpful and useful, we could have got by without them. no drugs either - although my partner had studied various breathing techniques
- tokai 3y ago
  Until something isn't going as normal, and you end up loosing the child or with brain damage.
  - 123pie123 3y ago
    that was my biggest concern, but we had gone through various scenarios and we fully accepted the risks we also mitigated the risks as well with scans and monitoring, and the worse case stuff - we also knew with research what the approx risks where (I really can't rememeber those now) but I do remember that hospitals typically massively over react - which causes harm in itself
    - jacquesm 3y ago
      > but we had gone through various scenarios and we fully accepted the risks That's because you didn't fully understand the risks.
- jseliger 3y ago
  It works great, unless and until it doesn't. This at least is a good sign: "we did have local maternity nurses here." My wife is an ER doc (https://bessstillman.substack.com/ https://bessstillman.substack.com/), and her and many of her colleagues have seen the results of home births gone sideways.
- dghlsakjg 3y ago
  Choosing a home birth knowing that if something goes wrong you have the entire NHS to save your life is one thing. Choosing a home birth to save money is a whole other thing. If she gets preeclampsia or has to go for an emergency c section she can count on a 6 figure bill.
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- c0pium 3y ago
  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32044310 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32044310 It increases risk of death from 3.27/10000 to 13.66/10000. And that’s before confounding factors like high risk births are more likely to choose hospitals this pushing up the apparent risk of hospital births.
ipython 3y ago
You should have kept reading because she then reveals that she used the life event (of becoming pregnant) to enroll in an insurance plan. I agree, my wife totally intended on a minimal medical intervention based birth. Still went to the hospital, just in case, as we had planned. Turns out that after hours of contractions, the birth was not going to happen (sparing the details) and a section was necessary after all. You simply can’t plan for this ahead of time.

“I’m pregnant, and I’m giving birth at home.” This is how I know not to consider anything this person says.

by bhpm 3y ago

“I’m pregnant, and I’m giving birth at home.” This is how I know not to consider anything this person says.

why? (from the UK) my partner gave birth at home - twice in a big blow up swimming pool thing - we did have local maternity nurses here, although they was extremely helpful and useful, we could have got by without them. no drugs either - although my partner had studied various breathing techniques

tokai 3y ago
Until something isn't going as normal, and you end up loosing the child or with brain damage.
- 123pie123 3y ago
  that was my biggest concern, but we had gone through various scenarios and we fully accepted the risks we also mitigated the risks as well with scans and monitoring, and the worse case stuff - we also knew with research what the approx risks where (I really can't rememeber those now) but I do remember that hospitals typically massively over react - which causes harm in itself
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    > but we had gone through various scenarios and we fully accepted the risks That's because you didn't fully understand the risks.
jseliger 3y ago
It works great, unless and until it doesn't. This at least is a good sign: "we did have local maternity nurses here." My wife is an ER doc (https://bessstillman.substack.com/ https://bessstillman.substack.com/), and her and many of her colleagues have seen the results of home births gone sideways.
dghlsakjg 3y ago
Choosing a home birth knowing that if something goes wrong you have the entire NHS to save your life is one thing. Choosing a home birth to save money is a whole other thing. If she gets preeclampsia or has to go for an emergency c section she can count on a 6 figure bill.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
c0pium 3y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32044310 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32044310 It increases risk of death from 3.27/10000 to 13.66/10000. And that’s before confounding factors like high risk births are more likely to choose hospitals this pushing up the apparent risk of hospital births.

ipython 3y ago

You should have kept reading because she then reveals that she used the life event (of becoming pregnant) to enroll in an insurance plan. I agree, my wife totally intended on a minimal medical intervention based birth. Still went to the hospital, just in case, as we had planned. Turns out that after hours of contractions, the birth was not going to happen (sparing the details) and a section was necessary after all. You simply can’t plan for this ahead of time.