If this Royal baby was indeed a homebirth, it would be great if it meant more couples considered it as an option. Our second son was born at home and it was such a contrast to his elder brother's (hospital) birth.https://twitter.com/HuffPostUK/status/1125419684067721216 …
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Sorry Julia but your understanding is wrong. The whole point of that study was to compare *planned* home births v *planned* hospital births. They have not misclassified one as the other.
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That anyone in this country considers a home birth is a damning indictment of our maternity services.
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Um, no. Some women just prefer to labour and birth at home in their own space. I did.
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If the birth didn’t happen st home it wasn’t a home birth. I had planned for a home birth with my first child but the Labour went badly, meconium in the water. Had to transfer to hospital (by car) had a very long Labour and baby doctors on hand. It was right to transfer.
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Maybe read the studies you’re referring to first before commenting on their reliability? https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg190/evidence …
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I wonder if the home birth movement is a folk memory from the 19th century when maternity hospitals really were slaughter houses. But since the germ theory of disease was developed, hospitals are much safer.
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Current good quality evidence quoted by NICE suggests that planned home birth safer for healthy women, and as safe as hospital for the babies of second/subsequent pregnancies.
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But let’s face it. Their version of a home birth is going to be a lot different from us normal folk
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Home birth statistics stat better outcomes for low risk mums and babies! Home births that go ‘wrong’ is a bit generalised Julia! Mainly it’s not that they go ‘wrong’ but often things change intrapartum, such as meconium stained liquor or women wanting further analgesia.
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I don't have any stats, but recall in WW2, '50s & '60s mothers assumed babies wd be born at home & the majority were home births (no shortage of mid-wives). So, Prince Harry reverting to old days!
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Not in a million years would I have risked any of our children being born away from doctors. If we had, none (of 3) would have survived.
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So what are you going to do about it? Or are you just a bag of wind? Do something.
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