That doesn’t make the test “risky” - it affects the interpretation of results. You apparently don’t know the difference between the two, which is disconcerting - what kind of doctor are you?

Am I the only woman who doesn’t care about the concept of a spiritual, natural, drug-free, skin-to-skin and breastfeeding-within-the-first-three-seconds-they’re-born type of childbirth? I’m just not interested in having the perfect experience. It’s probably going to be awful no matter what, and optimum bonding and…

I agree that we need to stop calling child birth without medication “natural.” These birthing centres and home births are still not really “back to nature” because you are out squatting in the woods.

lol, sure, massive bleeding for 30+ minutes in the time it takes for transport doesn’t matter at all.

God forbid a professional’s judgment matter. The fact that you think simply giving pit is the answer for massive bleeding IN HOSPITAL (where they certainly were giving this woman pit anyway), or that the time it would take to be transported by ambulance wouldn’t be critical and the potential difference between life…

Both of these are 1-in-10,000 risks.

Oh Beth.

This has absolutely nothing in common with vaccines or any of that stuff that comes from people’s opinions. The fact is that my wife was bleeding, a lot. She nearly needed a blood transfusion as her iron levels dipped into dangerously low levels. Given the amount of blood loss and how quickly she was losing it (close…

Are blood transfusions included on the list of allowable intravenous fluids? My wife lost close to 2 liters of blood after giving birth and what happened with her would have happened regardless of location, birthing center or hospital. One thing I do know is that if that were to happen at a birthing center and then…

That is a fake stat from the WHO. They have withdrawn it and admitted its just a guess based on zero evidence.

I’m not advocating that the choice be taken away. I just think people who make that choice need to realize the risks involved. As I said in my original post, my wife had no complications leading up to giving birth. However, shortly after my daughter was born, the situation went downhill very quickly. Had we not been…

While there are many advocates to using a midwife and giving birth at home or somewhere other than a hospital, I personally think it is a huge risk to not be in a hospital, at the very least for your first birth. My wife had no complications throughout her entire pregnancy and was not considered high risk. However,…