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- From: ishizaki@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Audrey Ishizaki)
- Subject: Re: Homebirth vs. Hospital birth
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.165908.4681@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:59:08 GMT
- References: <ANNE.92Dec20213836@dolores.Stanford.EDU> <1992Dec22.211607.8527@intellistor.com> <NELSON.92Dec23142522@cheetah.clarkson.edu>
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- In article <NELSON.92Dec23142522@cheetah.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
- >
- >Or are you willing to face the risk that the intervention that happens
- >in *every* hospital birth will cause problems?
-
- I was at a hospital when I bore my son; I don't believe there was *any*
- intervention. Oh, excuse me, I did receive two stitches where I tore.
-
- There *was* no other intervention in the birth process (there was no
- time! Of course, it depends on how you define "intervention").
-
- There's an interesting article in the latest "Mothering" magazine about
- homebirths in Holland (where there are statistically the most homebirths).
- Midwives go thru a 3 year schooling/training process (the cost of which
- is partially paid by the govt). The 3rd year midwife-student who was
- informally interviewed said (in essence) that she wasn't surprised that
- there were so few homebirths in the USA, since there was so little
- after-birth support. In Holland, apparently, someone comes to your house
- to help the mother with the child, cleaning, grocery shopping, etc.. for
- a 2? week period after the birth, at a very small cost ($15/day?). Also,
- homebirths are covered by insurance, while hospital stays are not (but
- hospital *costs* other than overnight stayes are).
-
- Anyhow, read the article, I may have quoted it wrong; I read it at 3am
- this morning! :(
-
- audrey ishizaki
-