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Re: To Dr. WDMcIntosh -- many more questions!From: anonymous@obgyn.netThu, 5 Aug 1999 19:31:03 -0500 (CDT)
At Wed, 4 Aug 1999, William D. McIntosh, MD wrote: > >I am always amazed that a woman who would cut off her arm before she >would fail to strap her child into a car seat, who carefully screens >every bite her child eats, who faithfully persuses "Dr. Spock" as if it >were Holy Writ, would undertake such a risk. Its like wearing seat >belts. You don't wear them just when you KNOW you are going to need >them today. You wear them every time because you MIGHT need them 1/1000 >times you drive your car. The women who choose home births haven't been reading Dr. Spock. They've been reading Sheila Kitzinger, Henci Goer, and others who point out the dozens of studies that show that professionally-attended, planned home births for low-risk women have BETTER outcomes (reduced morbidity and mortality) than similar populations in the hospital have. Yes, this conclusion flies in the face of "common sense." It ought not to be true. Hospitals *should* handle normal situations as well as homebirth midwives do, and abnormal situations better. Hospital-based practitioners should be learning from what homebirth midwives do well, and lessening the gap. From what I've seen, some are.
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