Avram in MD -“I have no interest in responding to Health.”
Of course not – the truth hurts.
“What I will say to you is this: the snippets of what sounds like a news article he quoted made no mention of the maternal mortality rate in U.S. hospitals, which is significantly higher when interventions are utilized, and higher in comparison to other developed nations that promote home births for healthy pregnancies.”
Prove it.
“While he framed his argument as pitting a mother’s convenience and comfort vs. infant’s life, if anything it really is a question of mother’s life and infants life. Whose blood is redder?”
Even if your statement that hospitals increase the mortality rate of the mother is true, your conclusion is totally false.
There is such a low mortality rate for the mother it no where comes near the mortality rate for infants. So do you care about the baby or just a remote possibility that the mother might be better off in a home setting? To me the answer is obvious!
“By the way, the ACOG probably lumps all “planned home births” together, including those who have little to no screening or monitoring, which I have certainly never advocated. And I wonder what definitions the ACOG used to attribute an infant’s death to the birth itself.”
Yea, all the home birth websites bring down this “so-called” argument. This is why I postulated that the home birth would only cause one out of a thousand deaths, instead of saying 14 or 21 deaths (2 -3 times the infant mortality rate), – to make up for all the other reasons that you could excuse because of whatever. Still, one out of a thousand is significant to me!