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Originally Posted by tecoyah
"So far, the largest and most complete study on the comparison of hospital birth outcomes to that of homebirth outcomes was done by Dr. Lewis Mehl and associates in 1976.
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Right... a study done 30 years ago. Pretty much everything having to do with that article has changed drastically. Hospitals' practices for antimicrobial and sterilization, neonatal care, and the very technologies implemented in the procedures mentioned make absolutely everything in that article total bullshit. 30 years? Please. When doctors graduate medical school, about 50% of everything they learned is obsolete within 5 years, if not sooner- especially in surgical applications.
This is also not to mention, as someone brought up, that the study still had trained midwives/birthing personnel of some kind.
The plain and simple truth is, c-sections are way more common for a reason: it gets the baby out quickly and safely in the event of a
possible problem. Lawsuits for birth problems are astronomical. HUGE. The doctors did not become surgery-happy, c-section pushers. They started doing it way more frequently to reduce the risk of getting sued due to problems encountered with the fetus before or during birth.
C-sections are directly related to litigation, and nothing else. Yes, it's more invasive for you, but it's a very good way to extract a fetus without incident.
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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
Before we started valuing ourselves so highly these were considered less important:
sex
childbirth
death
life has gone on.
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Holy shit...
Sometimes, you have a thought and you try and breathe life into it, but you never quite seem to make the words truly capture the thought in your head.
The above words have hit the nail on the head. Thank you.