Safety of a Homebirth

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Having the baby in your home? Who does such things? Didn’t that just happen when there weren’t many hospitals and doctor’s had to go to the home to deliver babies?

Not so. There are a growing number of women who have discovered the benefits of having your baby at home, or a homebirth as it is commonly called.

The practice of homebirths is usually called midwifery. Although usually not nurses or doctors, the people who are in midwifery are professionally regulated. I myself have seen the steady rise of homebirths through my practice as a San Diego certified midwife.

The people, generally women, who perform this line of work are called homebirth midwives. Midwives is the term most people are familiar with and means a person who helps during childbirth by providing support of the labor and delivery.

Now why the midwife generally isn’t a doctor or nurse is because having your baby at home, or midwifery, is usually the belief that pregnancy and delivery are natural events. This is contrasted with the medical model which believes that pregnancy and delivery should be accompanied by medicine to assist and improve the situation.

With that aside, lets look at why a lot of women are having babies at home rather than hospitals. What benefits are making women choose homebirths?

First off, with the continued presence of the midwife, the length of labor can be reduced. Most women aren’t told that pain medications actually slows down the labor, even though it helps with the pain. This actually creates more pain and makes the labor last longer.

Second, the techniques of midwifery actually reduces the likelihood of the need for forceps or other operative devices during delivery. The process of naturally allowing the birh and delivery to occur is what causes the reduction of the need for those devices.

Third, the possiblity of c-section deliveries are actually reduced. Most cesareans that happen in labor were because it was thought that a vaginal birth was not possible. Either because of the safety of the baby was in mind or the safety of the mother. Well in all actuality that complication was caused because the natural process was not allowed to happen.

These are just 3 of the benefits of having a natural birth at home. There are plenty more benefits, but most women would agree for pregnancy these are 3 huge benefits.

So although, most might consider it strange to want to have a child at home, studies have shown that allowing the natural birth process to happen is safer for the mother and the baby. With over 300 births attended as a homebirth midwife in San Diego, this has proven to be the case time and time again.

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