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Giving Birth at
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Why to choose to birth at
home? Advances in modern
medicine have made the process
of labor and delivery nearly
“pain free”. A woman may have
medication to induce her labor,
an epidural to guard against
pain, or even a cesarean
section delivery, scheduled
around her busy life.
And yet, a growing number of
women and their partner choose
to home birth, giving birth at
home with only a midwife at
their side. What is behind this
growing trend of home
births?
With scientific advances
also comes understanding. Women
understand more now than ever
in regards to their own bodies
and the mechanics of birth.
With this growing knowledge
base, more women are also
seeing the negative effects
that giving birth in a hospital
can have on the experience of
childbirth, and how a home
birth can enhance the bonds
within their families.
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Modern society has turned the process
of pregnancy into a medical condition. In fact,
if you will notice the wording of some health
insurance policies, you may even see pregnancy
listed as an ailment! But pregnancy, labor and
delivery are natural stages in the biological
process of birth – a process that has been
ongoing since, well, the beginning of time. No
matter your beliefs in the origins of man,
there was at one time, the first humans. These
first humans gave birth, and thus the rest of
us have followed throughout the years. Birth
had been a natural process until medical
advances transformed this completely natural
event into a complicated medical condition that
should be monitored with zeal.
Thus, some women are more inclined to
experience childbirth as a natural phenomenon,
free of the entrapments of medical devices,
monitors, tests, and drugs that can take away
from what it was intended to be. These women
find the clinical hospital setting to be a
cold, unnatural, stripping away of the
fundamentals of childbirth.
A hospital setting can be confining to the
laboring woman. With all sorts of medical
gadgets and monitors hooked up to intricate
body parts, she is not free to move about, find
comfortable positions, and take a shower. She
has virtually no privacy, with her room easily
accessible by dozens of nurses, or perhaps even
the janitor who is collecting trash from her
room. She may even be lured into a cesarean
section delivery of her child at the first hint
of trouble, or just to expedite the schedule of
the attending obstetrician, from which a
lengthy recuperation and added drugs will be
required. Further, medications that she may be
given either to bring on labor or to alleviate
her pain, will not only make her groggy and
less aware of her childbirth experience, but
can be toxic to her unborn baby who is
struggling to make his entrance into the world.
The hospital delivery is more rushed than a
delivery at home, sometimes necessitating the
use of an episiotomy to aid in the passage of
the baby; again, this is a wound that takes
time to heal.
Hospital delivery or home birth? Each woman
has a choice, and reasons that she may choose
either. When deciding upon which you will
select for your labor and delivery, you should
make an informed choice that takes into account
any advice you might receive from your
obstetrician or midwife.
Home birth interview: listen to a
mother who has had three
home births.
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