Who chooses a home birth

All the increasingly popular procedure for home birth that were ubiquitous in the world even 70-100 years ago. So far, the number of home childbirth is still not as high, but it is constantly and steadily growing. Women who do not have special risks according to physicians, are increasingly giving birth in her bathroom.

One recent example of this trend began homebirth the highest paid top model of the planet, a native of Brazil Gisele Bundchen That gave her husband Tom Brady's son Benjamin in December last year. While a crowd of paparazzi vain never sat for hours on end at the windows elite clinic in Boston, Giselle gave birth in her bathroom.

The US Center for Disease Control says that while health centers outside the United States occur less than 1% of births. However, from 2003 to 2006, the number of home birth   It increased by 3 to 5%. If in 2003 there were only 46 371, in 2006 already 49,438.

With what it can be connected? Experts note that tend to homebirth   They agree to women who already have children (Giselle in this respect an exception). They have accumulated negative experience of childbirth in a hospital that they do not want to repeat.

One of the essential, but not the main reason home birth   is their cost. Take, again, America. Home births in 2004 treated mom and dad only 25-30% of what they would have to put in the hospital. For estvestvenno delivery is $ 7737 to $ 10 958. Caesarean Why do we think the cost is not the main reason? Yes because homebirth Usually just choose women more affluent and educated, who already have children. Well, do not say because that Gisele Bundchen   I decided to save!

The most common bath room instead of obstetric women choose just because houses and walls help. In addition, in US hospitals too carried away with caesarean section, and many women are afraid of this procedure. Hold it in the same household will risk obstetrician invited only as a last resort.

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