I would not want to have a home birth!

karebear304 · June 2011

I saw Anna Duggar's yesterday. Holy cow, did that look terrifying. I want a team of people standing by in case something goes wrong with me. I mean what if the baby couldn't breathe or something...are there ways to monitor that and they just didn't show it??

It looked extremely painful too. Ouch.

BMWwife · June 2011

I watched that last night too which is funny b/c I never watch that show. Anyhow... maybe its b/c the only deliveries I go to are the High Risk deliveries I was terrified for her. I think home births in this day and age are CRAZY!! A few months ago we had a newborn come into the Peds ER. He had been a home birth about 12 hrs prior and had inhaled his own poop (meconium aspiration) as he was being born. He was in severe respiratory distress. We had to transfer him to another hospital that had a pediatric intensive care unit. I later heard he did not make it. Sooo sad!

MarylandWed · June 2011

i watched it too last night! i started crying when anna was in labor and one of josh's sisters brought mckenzie to her. that was such a tender moment and i was a blubbering idiot. poor anna was crying for the lord. i felt bad that she ended up having the baby on the toity. and josh was so useless he took a nap and almost missed it. that is horribly sad about that baby bmw.

Ludenbelle · June 2011

BMWwife:
A few months ago we had a newborn come into the Peds ER. He had been a home birth about 12 hrs prior and had inhaled his own poop (meconium aspiration) as he was being born. He was in severe respiratory distress. We had to transfer him to another hospital that had a pediatric intensive care unit. I later heard he did not make it. Sooo sad!

This is how Sophie was born and they saw the meconium when my water broke literally minutes before she was born. They wouldn't even let me push again until the aspirator team came in because it can be fatal. Sure, lots of women have normal, healthy deliveries but just as many don't and I wouldn't want to take that risk. And just because the baby is fine doesn't mean the mommy will be. One of my best friends started clotting up immediately after her baby was born and they had to go in and do an emergency surgery to remove a baseball size clot after a vaginal delivery. But I think most women who choose the home birth have some sort of educated staff there for emergencies.

KelliH714 · June 2011

I don't judge women who want to have home births but to me it's just not worth the risk. I want there to be people and the right equipment close by in case something goes wrong. I don't think I could handle it if something terrible happened to my baby because of a home birth, like bmw's story. So sad!

karebear304 · June 2011

MarylandWed:
i watched it too last night! i started crying when anna was in labor and one of josh's sisters brought mckenzie to her. that was such a tender moment and i was a blubbering idiot. poor anna was crying for the lord. i felt bad that she ended up having the baby on the toity. and josh was so useless he took a nap and almost missed it. that is horribly sad about that baby bmw.

I was so close to crying on this too!

Unrelated, but I like your new kitty siggy!

MarylandWed · June 2011

karebear304:
MarylandWed:
i watched it too last night! i started crying when anna was in labor and one of josh's sisters brought mckenzie to her. that was such a tender moment and i was a blubbering idiot. poor anna was crying for the lord. i felt bad that she ended up having the baby on the toity. and josh was so useless he took a nap and almost missed it. that is horribly sad about that baby bmw.
I was so close to crying on this too!
Unrelated, but I like your new kitty siggy!

thank you my dear!

MadameD517 · June 2011

I didn't watch but...

This is why *most* people that do homebirths do their homework. If you get a CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife) they actually have to comply to the same guidelines set by the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology. They have oxygen, certain medications, and are required to be within a certain amount of minutes from a hospital for homebirths (usually 3-5 minutes). They are trained first as nurses and then as midwives. If your baby needed to be revived, they can do that. The rate of deaths at home births is actually really low, and their rates of intervention are a tiny percentage of those done in hospitals.

Now, if you go with a midwife that is not certified, that's a whole other story and can be quite scary, but the amount of people that choose that is pretty small, especially now.

The US is actually really strange, we have one of the lowest home birth percentages out of other industrialized countries.

MadameD517 · June 2011

BMWwife:
I watched that last night too which is funny b/c I never watch that show. Anyhow... maybe its b/c the only deliveries I go to are the High Risk deliveries I was terrified for her. I think home births in this day and age are CRAZY!! A few months ago we had a newborn come into the Peds ER. He had been a home birth about 12 hrs prior and had inhaled his own poop (meconium aspiration) as he was being born. He was in severe respiratory distress. We had to transfer him to another hospital that had a pediatric intensive care unit. I later heard he did not make it. Sooo sad!

That is awful!

BMWwife · June 2011

MadameD517:
BMWwife:
I watched that last night too which is funny b/c I never watch that show. Anyhow... maybe its b/c the only deliveries I go to are the High Risk deliveries I was terrified for her. I think home births in this day and age are CRAZY!! A few months ago we had a newborn come into the Peds ER. He had been a home birth about 12 hrs prior and had inhaled his own poop (meconium aspiration) as he was being born. He was in severe respiratory distress. We had to transfer him to another hospital that had a pediatric intensive care unit. I later heard he did not make it. Sooo sad!
That is awful!

I've heard that the midwife in this case was questionable at best and that the police where looking into filing charges against her.

karebear304 · June 2011

MadameD517:
I didn't watch but...
This is why *most* people that do homebirths do their homework. If you get a CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife) they actually have to comply to the same guidelines set by the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology. They have oxygen, certain medications, and are required to be within a certain amount of minutes from a hospital for homebirths (usually 3-5 minutes). They are trained first as nurses and then as midwives. If your baby needed to be revived, they can do that. The rate of deaths at home births is actually really low, and their rates of intervention are a tiny percentage of those done in hospitals.
Now, if you go with a midwife that is not certified, that's a whole other story and can be quite scary, but the amount of people that choose that is pretty small, especially now.
The US is actually really strange, we have one of the lowest home birth percentages out of other industrialized countries.

See, they didn't show any of this. All they showed was a suitcase with peroxide and some towels. They never showed her getting her BP checked or anything like that. This makes me feel better, but I would still be way too scared. It's definitely not for me!

MadameD517 · June 2011

BMWwife:
MadameD517:
BMWwife:
I watched that last night too which is funny b/c I never watch that show. Anyhow... maybe its b/c the only deliveries I go to are the High Risk deliveries I was terrified for her. I think home births in this day and age are CRAZY!! A few months ago we had a newborn come into the Peds ER. He had been a home birth about 12 hrs prior and had inhaled his own poop (meconium aspiration) as he was being born. He was in severe respiratory distress. We had to transfer him to another hospital that had a pediatric intensive care unit. I later heard he did not make it. Sooo sad!
That is awful!
I've heard that the midwife in this case was questionable at best and that the police where looking into filing charges against her.

So sad

MadameD517 · June 2011

karebear304:
MadameD517:
I didn't watch but...
This is why *most* people that do homebirths do their homework. If you get a CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife) they actually have to comply to the same guidelines set by the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology. They have oxygen, certain medications, and are required to be within a certain amount of minutes from a hospital for homebirths (usually 3-5 minutes). They are trained first as nurses and then as midwives. If your baby needed to be revived, they can do that. The rate of deaths at home births is actually really low, and their rates of intervention are a tiny percentage of those done in hospitals.
Now, if you go with a midwife that is not certified, that's a whole other story and can be quite scary, but the amount of people that choose that is pretty small, especially now.
The US is actually really strange, we have one of the lowest home birth percentages out of other industrialized countries.
See, they didn't show any of this. All they showed was a suitcase with peroxide and some towels. They never showed her getting her BP checked or anything like that. This makes me feel better, but I would still be way too scared. It's definitely not for me!

Oh yeah, TLC is definitely into the drama! But who knows, maybe she didn't have a certified mid wife and there wasn't anything to show!

starletcarly · June 2011

MadameD517:
I didn't watch but...
This is why *most* people that do homebirths do their homework. If you get a CNM (Certified Nurse Midwife) they actually have to comply to the same guidelines set by the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology. They have oxygen, certain medications, and are required to be within a certain amount of minutes from a hospital for homebirths (usually 3-5 minutes). They are trained first as nurses and then as midwives. If your baby needed to be revived, they can do that. The rate of deaths at home births is actually really low, and their rates of intervention are a tiny percentage of those done in hospitals.
Now, if you go with a midwife that is not certified, that's a whole other story and can be quite scary, but the amount of people that choose that is pretty small, especially now.
The US is actually really strange, we have one of the lowest home birth percentages out of other industrialized countries.

If I ever have a baby (very doubtful), I would want a home birth. I've always thought that and now that I know a lot of people who have had positive experiences, it has reinforced my feelings toward them.

colenmike · June 2011

It definitely is a personal decision for sure and if someone is going to do it like Madame said they do their homework. I just would not feel comfortable doing it.

Same with Ava and thankfully with everything that was already happening with her heartrate dropping when I was having contractions that would've never been caught and she did ingest meconium right before they got her out of me and they used some pretty powerful sucking equipment to get into her lungs.

I'm sure the midwife or whatever it was for Anna had something but I can't imagine it being that powerful to get it out properly.

BMW that breaks my heart

I would not want to have a home birth!

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