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Benefits of a Homebirth
By plrprousers | June 24, 2009
Having the baby in your home? Who would do such a thing? 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 is a growing group of women who realize the benefits of a homebirth and having your baby at home.
It is called midwifery the practice of having your baby at home. 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 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 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 taken care of, lets examine why women are choosing to have babies at home. 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 don’t realize that the use of pain medications although seemingly helpful in regards to pain, actually slows the labor 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, the possiblity of c-section deliveries are actually reduced. Most cesareans are performed because during labor, somehow a consensus was made that a natural 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 are just 3 of the benefits of having a natural birth at home. There are many more, but I am sure most women in pregnancy would agree these are 3 huge benefits.
So even though some might call it strange to have a child at home, recent studies indicate that allowing a natural birth to happen is much safer for the mom 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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