The BBC article on increased risks in home births is news?
Anyone who, through a process of informed choice, chooses to put themselves far away from hospital is electing (but not guaranteeing) themselves and their unborn child for a Darwin Award.
Anyone who has convinced themselves that birth is some kind of magical, low risk activity because it is 'natural' is deluded. It is painful, frightening, bloody and fraught with risk. Afterwards, it is magical.
No amount of home comfort will make up for a child, carried for nine months, that dies through any number of sudden complications that might otherwise have been saved if the appropriate teams and equipment had been on hand.
Of course, a hospital birth is by no means a guarantee. But I would say that it's the equivalent of adding an extra couple of D20's to a Saving Throw and I, for one, would rather have those the increased odds of survivability.
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Anyone who, through a process of informed choice, chooses to put themselves far away from hospital is electing (but not guaranteeing) themselves and their unborn child for a Darwin Award.
Anyone who has convinced themselves that birth is some kind of magical, low risk activity because it is 'natural' is deluded. It is painful, frightening, bloody and fraught with risk. Afterwards, it is magical.
No amount of home comfort will make up for a child, carried for nine months, that dies through any number of sudden complications that might otherwise have been saved if the appropriate teams and equipment had been on hand.
Of course, a hospital birth is by no means a guarantee. But I would say that it's the equivalent of adding an extra couple of D20's to a Saving Throw and I, for one, would rather have those the increased odds of survivability.