Having children is a healthy natural process. Most births are low risk as
childbirth is a normal, physiological function.
Home birth (or out of hospital birth) has the potential advantage of:
- More relaxed environment: labor may be prolonged and may be made difficult
and painful by fear.
- Cleaner environment
- Natural progression of labor; gentleness with minimal intervention.
- May typically labor in position which labor progesses best in and feels
least painful; may walk and eat during labor in comfort of own home.
- Father and mother and whole family may experience joy that natural
childbirth can provide; pre-delivery teaching and delivery experience
available for husbands.
- May begin nursing baby immediately afer birth.
Safety for low risk births has been shown in published research for
home/out of hospital births. Everyone is low risk unless they have medical
reasons which make them appear not to be.
References
- "Mal Practice", Contemporary Books, Chicago; Robert S. Mendelson, M.D.,
c1981, pp. 140-184.
- "Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives:
large prospective study in North America"; BMJ 2005;330:1416 (18 June),
doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7505.1416
Scientific study has demonstrated that female cancers are closely associated
with the number of children and nursing; women with 6-8 children or more who
also nurse can even overcome genetic predisposition to female cancers. In
the past, with historically larger families, breast cancer primarily only occurred in women without children and
was called a "disease of nuns" in the medical writings of the day.
References
- "Fetal Microchimeric Cells and Beast Cancer"; Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA); October 6, 2004- Vol. 292, No.13
- "Breast Feeding Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk", Family Practice
News, Oct 15, 2002; p.35
- "Study: Breast cancer risk dips with more births", The Tennessean, July
19, 2002 (a report by AP from The Lancet, British American's medical journal)
Pre-natal, delivery assistance and post-natal care available. Contact for pre-natal evaluation.
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