The fight regarding home birth and it’s safety continues

Written on July 12, 2008 by admin

There was a great article in LA times regarding the issue of the American College of Obstetrics attacking the movie “The Business of Being Born” by Ricki Lake and they are trying to make home births illegal. This is outrageous and really shows what certain groups are about and what their true agenda is. Clearly American College of Obstetrics is not interested in the safety of the mother and the unborn child if they want to enforce the american hospital birth mentality with interventions such as induction, breaking of waters, giving pain medication etc which all have been proven to lead to unnecessary C-sections and is the opposite of how birthing is handled in Europe by midwifes. In Europe, home birthing is encouraged and practices commonly yet the newborn death rate is higher in America than in most European countries. Now what does that tell you? Do you believe the American College of Obstetrics who clearly have their own professional agenda in mind or do you believe that women were meant to give birth the natural way and should have the power to choose their own birthing style and the place?

Please read here for more details regarding this issue. There is an excellent book written about this by Jennifer Block called “Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care”. I highly recommend reading it. I really hope that American College of Obstetrics loses their fight to make home births illegal because if they succeed, it will mean that this country is going way backwards and it’s very unfortunately for the women of this country. I’ve given birth twice here in America and I can tell you that both times I had to fight to give birth naturally at a hospital. It was such a nightmare that I don’t wish that for anyone. If I had known better, I had delivered at home with a midwife. 

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