Homebirth or hospital delivery- which is more safe
One of the choices women have during pregnancy is how they will deliver. What I’m trying to say when I said how they deliver is where do they want to give birth-in the hospital or at their homes. Most women don’t know that they have a choice on how to deliver their babies because they think that giving birth at their own homes is dangerous. But of course that safety has been questioned.But if they just research and look for studies about this method then they will realize that there a lot of evidence that this method is safe.
Now the safety of a homebirth has been questioned. From my observations from my practice as a midwife in San Diego I have found it to be absolutely safe. I have witnessed 300 homebirths and I can say that the dangers are just the same either you deliver a baby at home or at the hospital.The risks is not minimized whether you give birth at a hospital or at your homes.On the ohter hand, the risks also would not increase because of this.
So what would be the possible risks that can happen?One danger that people worry about this method is when complications arise while having a baby.They presume that the people who administer homebirths are not nurses and they are not medically inclined. Well as a midwives San Diego we do know medical procedures.All the necessary equipments for the common complications of a chilbirth are always with us.It is but natural that any serious complications that would arise during birthing should be addressed by a doctor.But that is not far from what happens in a hospital.
Now of course homebirths are only suggested for women who have low risk pregnancies.If it is known that a woman has possible complications while giving birth then the midwife would not recommend this method if she is good. This is standard procedure for all licensed midwife in San Diego.This is standard procedure because they are limited in the medical procedures that they can do. That is why they do make sure any high risk pregnancies are delivered in a hospital.
For those against having a baby at home it will be hard to convince them otherwise.But for women who are not afraid to try this method and have low pregnancy risk then they should know that homebirth is a safe method to give birth.