Home Delivery of Babies
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I'm sold on regular prenatal examinations, in other words .
. . don't wait until the last moment to sign up.
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In England, where high risk deliveries are handled in
hospitals and normal deliveries are performed either at
home or in the hospital, a 1968 study done in the city of
Wolverhampton produced this interesting comparison: Of
7,133 home deliveries under midwife supervision, there were
54 stillbirths (babies born dead) and no maternal deaths.
Among 12,163 hospital deliveries, there were 369
stillbirths and four maternal deaths.
Although it would be unfair to take these figures as
evidence of the greater safety of home
deliveries—since, admittedly, the higher risk
deliveries are shunted to the hospital—they do
indicate that home delivery following adequate prenatal
care and attended by experienced people is not as risky as
our medical profession would have us believe.
Suggested reading:
COMMONSENSE CHILDBIRTH, by Lester D. Hazell, Tower
Publications, $5.95.
EMERGENCY
CHILDBIRTH MANUAL, by Gregory J. White, (available from the
Police Training Founda tion, 3412 Ruby Street, Franklin
Park, Illinois 60131).
HUSBAND-COACHED CHILDBIRTH, by Robert Bradley, Harper and
Rowe, $4.95.
PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH, by Marjorie Karmel, Dolphin
Books.
TEXTBOOK FOR MIDWIVES, by Margaret F. Myles. 6th edition,
1968, E. & M. Livingstone Ltd., Edin burgh, London.
Printed by Darien Press, Great Britain.
Other text books on Midwifery usually available at the
library of any school of nursing.
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