wanderingchana -“Health, you’re a doctor and ACOG is the lobbying organization for OB/GYNs – no one expects that you or they are going to be supportive of women choosing anything but a hospital birth.”
The fact that I’m in the medical field has nothing to do with my opinion. I’ve never worked in OB/Gyn besides being trained in it.
You’re much more Nogieah – being that you obviously prefer to have your kids at a birthing center or something similar.
“This “other finding” – of a tripling of the neonatal mortality rate – are we talking about something like the difference between 0.02% and 0.06% (six hundreds of ONE percent) in a meta-analysis? While that would certainly represent a tripling of the neonatal mortality rate, it’s statistically insignificant (not to mention intellectually dishonest).”
The only one who’s being intellectually dishonest is you. The mortality rate in this country is about 7 kids out of every thousand. So let’s say ONLY 1 out of this thousand is due to home birth. How in the world is this not significant? Let’s say you convince 1,000 Frum women to deliver at home -at least one of those kids will Not make it due to being delivered at home. And you call this Insignificant?!?!?!
“An OBGYN is trained to perform surgery”
They are trained in all aspects of Women’s health, not just Surgery!
“- they are not there for most of the labor anyway, and if they do show up and it’s taking “too long” (i.e. they are missing dinner, ball game, etc.),”
Some do and some Don’t!
“things “start happening” – continuous monitoring, induction with pitocin, which becomes “failure to progress” (or, failure to be patient), which becomes a c-section…”
These arguments can only be used against doctors, but since when aren’t you allowed to have a Midwife in charge of your care in the hospital?!?!?
“If a woman is properly and thoroughly educated, low-risk, with a back-up plan in place, no one needs to judge her decision to have a home birth.”
Yes, her decision should be judged because she’s putting herself before the life of her child! This is No small matter!