{"id":9024,"date":"2011-07-18T13:15:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/?p=9024"},"modified":"2011-07-18T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:19:09","slug":"home-births-may-be-safer-doctors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/home-births-may-be-safer-doctors-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Births May Be Safer, Doctors Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9048 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/78493728-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9048\" src=\"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/78493728-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/noscript>There&#8217;s been a lot of talk lately about home births, which have <a href=\"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/pregnancy-health\/home-birth-why-the-rise-in-popularity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">increased 20 percent between 2004 and 2008<\/a>. Even within my own circle of friends, more and more are opting for home births as opposed to a standard hospital birth (one <a href=\"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/pregnancy-health\/in-defense-of-the-epidural\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">friend<\/a> in particular, eight months pregnant with her first, said she nixed a hospital delivery after watching <strong>Ricki Lake<\/strong>-produced documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Business Of Being Born<\/em><\/a>). Many people, myself included, get totally freaked out by the idea that if anything goes wrong with the baby, you need to somehow <em>get<\/em> to the hospital in a situation where time is of the essence. But home birth advocates would argue that the risks of delivering in a hospital far outweigh the 10 minutes it would take to get to a hospital in case of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a hot topic that continues to be debated among leading medical experts and BFFs alike. And now a new report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcog.org.uk\/high-quality-womens-health-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists<\/a> in England shows that some physicians think that home births are safer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jezebel.com\/5821422\/it-may-be-safer-to-give-birth-in-your-home-instead-of-in-a-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Too many babies are born in the traditional &#8216;hospital&#8217; setting<\/a>,&#8221; says Royal College president <strong>Anthony Falconer<\/strong>. &#8220;There&#8217;s a perception among patients that they still see the hospital births as the safer option.&#8221; He goes on to say that that &#8220;roughly a third of women need a doctor, roughly a third need midwives and roughly a third might need both.&#8221; The only people who should definitely give birth in a hospital, according to the report, are women at clear risk of complications such as those over 40 or diabetics.<\/p>\n<p>For those not inclined to deliver a baby in their own home, heading to a local birthing center is another option that&#8217;s increasing in popularity (we love this candid and hilarious <a href=\"https:\/\/jezebel.com\/5820482\/all-birthing-options-come-to-the-same-horrible-conclusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> by <strong>Tracie Egan Morrissey<\/strong> explaining why she&#8217;s chosen that route). Royal College vice president <strong>David Richmond<\/strong>, who wrote the report, is a fan of birthing centers. He says that most most women could have their babies here &#8220;without a doctor going anywhere near them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Do they need to  be in an institution that can do MRI scans and renal transplants and  brain surgery? Probably not,&#8221; he says. &#8220;So we need to have this network of care  where the woman is guided to the right part of the network to receive  her care.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Comstock)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of talk lately about home births, which have increased 20 percent between 2004 and 2008&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20792,"featured_media":9048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1538,35137,1542,1540,1539,614,1541],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":4,"label":"Pregnancy"}],"post_tag":[{"value":1538,"label":"birthing centers"},{"value":35137,"label":"home birth"},{"value":1542,"label":"home birth or hospital birth"},{"value":1540,"label":"home birth vs. hospital"},{"value":1539,"label":"home births safer"},{"value":614,"label":"natural birth"},{"value":1541,"label":"the business of being born"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/mommyish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/78493728-640x427.jpg",640,427,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Shawna Cohen","author_link":"https:\/\/mommyish.com\/author\/shawna\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":4,"name":"Pregnancy","slug":"pregnancy","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Learn how to combine pregnancy and good health. 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