Home births killed three times more children

Home births are also dangerous to the health of the child, like riding in the car at high speed without the use of seat belts. This idea is advanced experts who urge expectant mothers not to follow the increasingly popular trend.

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Brazilian Gisele Bundchen made her two children at home in the bathroom, although the highest paid top model in the world could afford to give birth in any health center in the world. But Gisele said that she feels most comfortable at home. Next to her during childbirth was a friend of Brazil, working obstetrician, who took the child.

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Bundchen has become a trendsetter in the homebirth Or rather a new wave of fashion. The popularity of home births increases and decreases, and today it is again on the rise. Now proponents of the practice claim that homebirth   well suited to women whose pregnancies without any complications and disorders. In addition, expectant mothers allegedly insured against any accidents due to the presence of midwives who call for such delivery.

But the study of statistics on the planned 500 thousand home birth   women, fully meet the criteria mentioned above, it has shown that childbearing outside the medical establishment is still a huge risk for the baby. To cite just one terrible fact - the death rate of children in the home birth in women giving birth for the first time, three times higher than at birth in hospitals. That is the conclusion drawn by researchers from Oxford, who argue that the mother reshivshiesya at home births, similar to mothers who carry children in the car are not wearing.

In the event of any complications, such as hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (limited supply of oxygen to the brain of the child) born children get home they need urgent medical help is delayed. While the mother and the baby taken to the hospital, passes the precious time. A delay in facing various complications, such as cerebral palsy, motor and cognitive problems are sometimes manifested in the school age. These are the risks that can be easily avoided if to give birth in health facilities. (READ MORE)

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