Benefits of a Homebirth

Having your child in the home? Who would even think of such a thing? Didn't that just happen when there weren't many hospitals and doctor's had to go to the home to deliver babies?
Not quite. There is a growing group of women who realize the benefits of a homebirth and having your baby at home.
The practice of homebirths is usually called midwifery. Although they are usually not doctors or nurses, people who are in this profession are professionally regulated.
The people, generally women, who perform this line of work are called homebirth midwives. Midwives is the term most people are familiar with and means a person who helps during childbirth by providing support of the labor and delivery.
Now why a midwife is usually not a doctor or nurse is because the practice of having your baby at home, or midwifery is generally the belief that pregnancy and birth are natural normal events. This is in stark contrast with the medical model which relies on medicine to assist and improve the pregnancy and delivery.
With that taken care of, lets examine why women are choosing to have babies at home. What benefits are making women choose homebirths?
First, with the midwife's continued presence, the labor time can actually be reduced. Most women do not know that pain medications, although they do help with pain, actually makes the labor slow down. This really causes more pain and the labor actuallly lasts longer.
Second, midwifery practices actually causes a reduction in the need for forceps and other devices in a delivery. The process of naturally allowing the birh and delivery to occur is what causes the reduction of the need for those devices.
Third, is it reduces the possibility of a cesarean delivery. {{{Most cesareans are performed because during labor, somehow a consensus was made that a natural vaginal birth was not possible|Most c-sections happen when during labor, it was thought that a natural birth process was not possible|Most cesareans that happen in labor were because it was thought that a vaginal birth was not possible}. Either it was the baby's safety that was in mind or the mother's safety}. Well in all actuality that complication was caused because the natural process was not allowed to happen.
These were 3 benefits of having a homebirth naturally. There are a lot more benefits, but I am positive most women who are pregnant would say these are 3 huge benefits.
So even though some might call it strange to have a child at home, recent studies indicate that allowing a natural birth to happen is much safer for the mom and the baby. With mostly success stories abounding about homebirths, it's hard to argue that point.

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