Home birth – Springer and Van Weel
Safe in selected women, and with adequate infrastructure and support birth is an event of great importance in family life. Although pregnancy and delivery are, under healthy conditions, normal social...
View ArticleHome birth figures low in North Wales
THE number of mums giving birth at home is lower in North Wales than in the rest of Wales, figures released last night show. But those choosing home delivery rather than opting for a hospital maternity...
View ArticleBirth charity says the NHS is right to encourage home births
Edinburgh charity the Birth Resource Centre told Dunedin Napier News it believes NHS plans to encourage home birth in the Lothians are a good idea. As birth rates rise the new Maternity Services...
View ArticleScotland: Pregnant women are urged to give birth in their own homes
MOTHERS-to-be are to be encouraged to stay away from hospital in an effort to more than double the number of home births in the Lothians. Pregnant women living furthest from the ERI and St John’s in...
View ArticleIs Homebirth for You?
Today in the United States, at the end of the twentieth century, advances in science and technology account for many positive changes in our quality of life. Yet more and more women from all walks of...
View ArticleOur ‘high risk’ Chapelfields home birth was a success
NEW mum Rachel Bridgeman successfully gave birth to her second son Alfie at home on November 17, despite being classed as “high risk” following a caesarean section. The 35-year-old mum-of-two from...
View ArticleCalmness key to home birth
EMMA PEARCE, 29, runs a baby and maternity clothing company called Butterfly Babies, and is mum to daughter Tiegan, six, and son Cadan, three. Both her children were born at home in Roath, Cardiff....
View ArticleHome Birthing Discussion
A discussion on the topic of Home Birthing and licensing midwives in North Carolina and other U.S. states with Russ Fawcett and Jennifer Block.
View ArticleKaplan Study Guide Suggests Banning Home Birth is Constitutional
Via a tip from a friend of the National Advocates for Pregnant Women, we learned that Kaplan review materials (created to help law students preparing to take state bar exams) suggest that a state ban...
View Article7 Tips for Creating a Calm, Joyous Homebirth
As cesarean and induction rates in hospital climb to astronomical levels many women are turning to homebirth. When interventions become excessively high, the risk/benefit ratio of being in a hospital...
View ArticleMore moms choose to give birth at home
If Samara Hines had health insurance, she’d deliver her baby in a hospital, away from the demands of her five other children and with help from nurses for the new little one. But Hines’ husband is...
View ArticlePeterhead mums unite for home birth support service
EXPECTANT mums who have their hearts set on giving birth at home are to benefit from the launch of a new support service next month. Peterhead mothers Amber Sebold and Charlie Paris have united to help...
View ArticleObs bleating as they get scared for their pockets
OBSTETRICIANS have stepped up their counter-attack against a push to give midwives a bigger role, claiming dire consequences will result if a federal review recommends allowing midwives to practise...
View ArticleIngo Rademacher Talks Names, Labor, Vaccines and Breast Milk
Soap star Ingo Rademacher and his fiancée Ehiku caused quite a stir with CBB readers when they announced that they had named their now 5-month-old son Peanut Kai. After learning of the pregnancy, the...
View ArticleHomebirth=Empowerment
It’s not a secret that I had a homebirth with my daughter last August! But why do people feel the need to make nasty comments about it, like it’s a bad thing? What’s with the negativity people?...
View Article(Video) Home Birth: DIY Labor and Delivery
We first met Katherine and Todd through LocalHarvest.org as our closest Community Supported Agriculture provider. We quickly became interested in their story as small farmers trying to make a living...
View ArticleA Homebirth Story
Yesterday morning at about 2:00am I got the call. It was the call I had been waiting for for about two weeks. She said “Hannah, my water just broke and I am having really strong contractions.” I said,...
View ArticleA TRADITIONAL BIRTH: No birthplace like home
Brannan Sirratt stepped into Birthroot Midwifery’s prenatal meeting room with husband Jacob and toddler son Nate in tow. Escaping a chilly February day, the family got warm hugs from Maria Chowdhury...
View ArticleBill seeks to create state board of midwives
Sens. Wayne Johnson, R-Cheyenne, and Charles Scott, R-Casper, have co-sponsored a bill they say will make it easier and safer for women to give birth at home. Currently, it is illegal for certified...
View ArticleHome Birth Safety Act
The legislative season has started in SD again, so much of my computer time is taken up with following and promoting and defending the Home Birth Safety Act. Last year, the state passed a bill that...
View ArticleInduction of labour
Induction happens to 1 in 3 women in Australia. Why is it that we think that a third of all women are unable to give give without the medical help of Obstetric intervention? the most common reason...
View ArticleHome Birth
On Sat, May 7 I woke up and was having contractions every 5 minutes for half an hour. I got all excited and thought it was labor for sure, so I got up and called the answering service. By the time she...
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LifeSpring Midwifery, LLC
We are proud to announce that Alison Haasch, owner of NaturalChildbirth.org, is now a licensed midwife in the state of Arizona. Alison has been training and working with midwives Pamela Qualls and Sue...
View ArticleHome birth popularity declines again
Some 29% of babies born in the Netherlands between 2005 and 2008 were born at home, says the national statistics office CBS. Between 1997 and 2000, home births accounted for 35% of the total. In 1953...
View ArticleRecession relief: midwifery saves money
Let’s face it: the economy sucks right now. We haven’t yet hit rock bottom, and it’s going to be awhile (probably a long while) before things begin to recover. In the midst of this harsh financial...
View ArticleIs Home Birth Safe?
Numerous studies have shown that for low-risk women home birth is indeed a safe choice. In fact, some studies have show that a homebirth can be a safer option than a hospital delivery for low-risk...
View ArticleMidwifery business uncertain because of insurance
This central Florida office feels more like a home than a maternity ward, with portraits of glowing mothers-to-be proudly displayed on the walls leading to the “suites.” The Van Gogh room has a...
View Article£1.75m for midwives to raise home births rate
Extra midwives are to be recruited for Northampton General Hospital, using £1.75 million of NHS funding to ensure every woman can choose a home birth. The funding was revealed by NHS managers in their...
View ArticleFree for all to attack homebirth
This has been a terrible few days for homebirth midwives here in Australia, the articles so bad and lacking in information. This is a particularly bad one so you can all see what is happening. I have...
View ArticleMothers defend right to home birth
A recent review of the country’s maternity services recommended the Federal Government overhaul the power given to midwives. If accepted by Health Minister Nicola Roxon’s department, some midwives...
View ArticleThe Dutch way: homebirth and at-home maternity care!
Now that I’m living in the Netherlands, chances are high that the next baby will be born at home. Currently, one in three babies are born at home here! To compare: in the UK, only about 2% of the...
View ArticleHome Birth is serious business..
Serious, intelligent women are saying “no” to maternity care that, contrary to what obstetricians and hospitals would lead us to believe, actually increases risk and danger for mother and baby. Women...
View ArticleThe Cost of Being Born At Home
Yesterday in New York City, Julie Finefrock appeared before the health fund subcommittee of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) as part of her appeal of their denial of her homebirth...
View ArticleHomebirthing vs Freebirthing: There is a Difference!
This morning in Babble Wrap we linked to a story about the tragic deaths of four babies in the last nine months during homebirths. The article in the Telegraph painted a picture of women undergoing...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Home Birth
On Twitter @benjamingeiger asked me what are the benefits of home birth over hospital birth. I’ll admit that it was a question that made me stop and stare for a few minutes. When you’re as obsessed...
View ArticleHome births as safe as hospital
The latest research, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics, focused on the Netherlands, where around 30 per cent of births take place at home. Of all births in England and Wales in...
View Article10 Homebirth Facts No One’s Telling You
If you’re newly pregnant, chances are you have never heard the truth about why homebirth is a safer choice for low-risk pregnancies. And if you’re not newly pregnant, it is never to late to consider...
View ArticleApril’s Homebirth Story
Contractions started Saturday afternoon, the 8th of July 2006 for me. It was kind of funny because Guy and Laurie left, and not very long after that, I had a contraction.. of course at first I didn’t...
View ArticleMattress Ad Features Homebirth
Not sure what the mattress ads in your TV market are like, but around here, they typically feature a wacky mattress store giant ready to slash prices on name brands! (Pillow tops! Kings!) Or a barely...
View Article7 Steps to Preparing Your Bed for a Homebirth
http://www.organic-birth.com/homebirth_bed.html While, in my experience, many, if not most, homebirth moms, do not get into bed until after the baby is born, it is still a great idea to have the bed...
View ArticleHomebirth 101: The Home Court Advantage (Podcast)
http://www.pregtastic.com/homebirth-101-the-home-court-advantage/ What exactly is homebirth? Who is a good candidate and why might you want to consider a homebirth? How and why a homebirth is safe....
View ArticleHome birth with midwife as safe as hospital birth: Study
Having your baby at home with a registered midwife is just as safe as a conventional hospital birth, a new study says. In fact, planned home births of this kind may have a lower rate of complications,...
View ArticleStudy: Planned Home Births OK
New research suggests that home births with the help of a registered midwife are as safe as deliveries in hospitals, The Los Angeles Times reports. The Canadian study, published in the Canadian Medical...
View ArticleHome Births Get a Bump in US
To the dismay of many obstetricians, more pregnant women in the United States are choosing to deliver their babies at home. However, the number of home births in the nation is still relatively small...
View ArticleNot the Kind of House for a Home Birth
When I called my mother and said I was thinking about having a home birth, she screamed, “Oh my God, why? What’s wrong with the Birth Center? It’s just like home, isn’t it?” True, the Birth Center...
View ArticleMedia out of focus on midwifery
http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/10/15/opinion/doc4ad699e65861c085403314.txt RECENT reports have focused on the rising trend of home births and, unfortunately, many stories have zeroed in on a...
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