Posts Tagged ‘homebirth safety’

• The Lancet’s editorial – read with caution

  Date: 2010.08.28 | Category: In the news | Response: 0

  An anti-homebirth editorial in the British medical journal The Lancet (titled “home birth – proceed with caution”) caused a lot of commotion this week. The Lancet is telling women that homebirths are not safe, and that they have to proceed with caution. Anti-homebirth folks are now using this editorial to attack homebirth as a valid and safe choice. It’s hard not to comment on this editorial, isn’t it? Sadly, a quick look at this editorial shows that it is little more than a “filler”, not based on real data, which was put together by the journal’s editors very quickly and without much thought. Let’s take a look at what is wrong with it.

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• Midwives criticize new homebirth safety study

  Date: 2010.08.01 | Category: In the news | Response: 0

  A new study on the safety of homebirth recently created great controversy among everyone who has strong views about birth. Why? Because this study reached the conclusion that, while homebirth does not impact maternal safety, it is significantly less safe for babies. The study caused many to jump on the “anti-homebirth bandwagon”, without reading what the study said, and how the researchers collected the data that led them to conclude that homebirth is not safe. The American College of Nurse-Midwives now issued a statement criticizing this homebirth safety study. Read the rest of this entry »