Many women feel that a home birth makes the event that much more special. Midwifery is become a more common profession as the number of babies born out of a hospital increases. For most of the women choosing this option, they will likely have a safe pregnancy.

However, even there is even the slightest risk of a complication in the pregnancy or anticipated with the birth, it is recommended that the baby be born at a hospital. If a doctor needs to use certain instruments or perform surgery, they won’t be able to do it at someone’s home. To be on the safe side, hospital deliveries are generally considered the safer option.

Do you know of someone that has given birth at home? What has been the experience?

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Safety of Home Births

The Amish aren’t known for their protests or political maneuverings. They usually stay out of the limelight and don’t like to be photographed – but here is one instance where their beliefs are making them stand up for what they think is right.

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Amish groups rally against state closure of midwife’s practice

Meredith, our resident doula (Womb Within has its very own doula) sent me this “President’s editorial” fro the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA). I am publishing it with permission. It’s a very interesting answer to the AMA’s close-minded point of view.

AMA Seeks to Deny Women Choices in Childbirth

*President’s Editorial *

July 11, 2008

Geradine Simkins
president@mana.org
888-923-MANA (6262)
info@mana.org
http://www.mana.org

One wonders what process the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates used to determine that *”Resolution 205 on Home Deliveries”* was a prudent and reasonable proposal to adopt. AMA Resolution 205 attempts to outlaw a woman’s choice to birth at home or in a freestanding birth center by calling for legislation to establish hospitals and hospital-based birth centers as the safest place for labor, delivery and postpartum recovery. Further, Resolution 205 seeks to establish that hospital-based midwives who work under the control of physicians are the only safe midwifery practitioners.

The Midwives Alliance of North America, which has represented the profession of midwifery since 1982 and whose members are specialists in homebirth, finds AMA’s Resolution 205 to be arrogant, patronizing and self-serving. We have three major objections to Resolution 2005. First, Resolution 205 patently ignores the vast body of scientific evidence that has documented homebirth to be a safe, cost-effective and satisfying option for women who prefer this alternative to hospital birth.

 Click here to read the rest: MANA editorial regarding “AMA Seeks to Deny Women Choices in Childbirth”

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MANA editorial regarding “AMA Seeks to Deny Women Choices in Childbirth”

Rather than go by bits and pieces of what may be in the news, including here at Womb Within, I recommend you read that article. It clarifies some issues quite well.

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