So far this is what I have found
http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/stor...075395,00.html
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Originally Posted by Guardian
Because freebirth is such a fringe movement there have been no studies on it. However, a report in the magazine New Scientist recently quoted a survey undertaken in a religious community in the state of Indiana, where there were more than 300 unattended births in the 1980s. The neonatal death rate was calculated as 19 per 1,000 live births, compared with seven per 1,000 for the rest of Indiana.
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From an anecdote from the same article:
The woman had a sucessful first freebirthing experience (including a weak moment where she called a midwife in temporarily)
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In my second pregnancy I avoided all contact with the NHS and had no antenatal care whatsoever. After 10 hours of extremely painful labour at home, alone throughout, I gave up and called an ambulance. Less than an hour later, on my back in hospital, I gave birth, vaginally, to premature twins. In terms of the amount of medical intervention I had to have, it was the opposite of my hopes and dreams, but I had never imagined having twins - and what a lovely surprise that was. Besides, dialling 999 was always my back-up plan, being only 10 minutes from the nearest hospital. The twins are now big and bonny.
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Holy F$*#. She did not even know she was having twins. That could have been a huge disaster.
We did not even consider multiple birth scenarios.
I found the following on a blog written by a neonatologist from the U.S. who does not identify him/herself.
The blog post includes an anecdote of an unsucessful frebirthing experience but I am only going to quote the part that stuck out to me.
http://neonataldoc.blogspot.com/2006/04/home.html
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I think that most people who have a home delivery do it because they want a better "childbirth experience". I ask such people, why are you having a baby? What is the purpose of this pregnancy? If it's to have a good experience, skip the pregnancy and go out for dinner and a movie instead. But if it's to have a helathy child, go to a hospital and take advantage of the modern world. It wasn't that long ago that many women and babies died in childbirth. A lot can go wrong. Ten per cent of babies need some type of resuscitation at birth. A good childbirth experience won't make up for the loss of a child. (By the way, this is not a rant against midwives. I have nothing against them, as long as they are certified and deliver babies in the hospital.)
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My thoughts exactly.
This is all about selfishness.
Note: By the way I feel the same way about elective c-sections.