"Women have a right to a home birth"

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This article tells the story of a pregnant woman whose GP offers to have a home birth because this would be more beneficial for your baby.

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (Acog) shows preference for the process of giving birth over the goal of having a healthy baby. They say "ill-qualified midwives have led to a home birth neonatal death rate twice that of hospital births". For this reason Acog opposes home births because "Nobody likes a dead baby." However none of this will help pregnant women make informed choices about their births, where balancing the barrage of information against your own instinct at an extremely emotional time is challenging enough.

But Acog thinks that the home birth is more for the benefit of mothers than babies. In your opinion the home birth endangers the life of newborn, for this reason is nothing to do with some romantic notion of childbirth.

The pregnant woman thought that any romance will be entirely eroded by the time the big day arrives after multiple consultations with the NHS, due to complications that could have been her baby during home birth. But also she thought that she wanted that her baby born in place calm, quiet, familiar surroundings, without towards drugs and intervention in hospital.

Finally, she and her husband decided that they wanted a home birth, because they felt it was best for her baby. She said "So the more the NHS pushed us towards induction and a hospital birth, the more strongly we wanted to be at home and I felt that we would be most confident at home, with a skilled midwife".

On July, she had a birth in water at her home. The baby weighed 10 lb and was a baby big and beautiful. But his size meant that the mother was two horrific days in hospital after losing a litre of blood. However she said "give our son a beautiful, calm and drug-free birth, and hopefully that way of coming into the world will stay with him forever. I wouldn't change a thing".

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/02/home-birth-women-caesareans