Re: home birth

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Amy
At Fri,  8 Jun 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>At Wed,  4 Apr 2001, William McIntosh, MD wrote:
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>>This is an emotionally charged and highly political issue, and I will no
>>doubt reap loads of flame for this posting, but the only thing that
>>should be delivered at home is pizza.
>
>I am the mother of three pizzas...  and yes, you should reap loads of
>flames for using such an inflammatory phrase.
>
>> I have cared for 3 women who delivered at home in the past 2 years whose
>> babies either died or ended up impaired due to an unanticipated
>> complication of the home delivery.
>
>How many women have you cared for at the hospital in the past 2 years
>whose babies either died or ended up impaired due to unanticipated
>complication of the hospital birth? It would seem that complications can
>and do occur in both locations, no?
>
>In the past two years I have attended 46 home births or free-standing
>birth center births (which is about a 1/3 of the actual deliveries in
>that time period) and there is not a single impaired newborn or fatality
>reported.

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