Why Homebirths are Safe

Having your child in the home? Who does such things? Wasn't that just back in the western days when doctor's had to deliver babies at home out on the prairie?

Not so. There is a growing group of women who realize the benefits of a homebirth and having your baby at home.

The practice of homebirths is usually called midwifery. Although not doctors or nurses, people in this line of work called midwifery are professionally regulated.

The people, generally women, who perform this line of work are called homebirth midwives. Midwives is a more common term that people are familiar with and means a person who attends childbirth and provides support during labor and delivery.

Now why a midwife is usually not a doctor or nurse is because the practice of having your baby at home, or midwifery is generally the belief that pregnancy and birth are natural normal 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 are the benefits that are causing women to have homebirths?

First, with the midwife's continued presence, the labor time can actually be reduced. Most women do not know that pain medications, although they do help with pain, actually makes the labor slow down. 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, cesarean delivery possbilities are reduced. {{{Most cesareans are performed because during labor, somehow a consensus was made that a natural vaginal birth was not possible|Most c-sections happen when during labor, it was thought that a natural birth process was not possible|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 reality, complications were caused when the natural process was stopped and not allowed to continue.

These were 3 benefits of having a homebirth naturally. There are many more, but I am sure most women in pregnancy would agree 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 mostly success stories abounding about homebirths, it's hard to argue that point.
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