Whoever wrote the data on Colorado homebirths is completely incompetent. You cannot expand data to assess IMR. There were only 637 homebirths. There is no way to establish IMR with that amount of data and then compare it to a state IMR. Its totally unadjusted. The actual adverse birth events are very few. I am shocked if a government published that. The CDC would never attempt to establish IMR with such a small subject group.
There were only 8 homebirth deaths in the state. And it also doesn't appear to adjust for genetic abnormality.
But bottom line is that this piece is totally unscientific. It's like a high schooler wrote it.
Cesareans put the mother and child at greater risk in subsequent births than vaginal does. To me, a doctor who performs a non-necessary cesarean is the same as one removing tonsils from a healthy individual. Or putting in a heart stent that isnt necessary. Its unethical and with socialized medicine in the country, I do NOT think anyone else should pay for more expensive surgery just because a woman wants it. And if I was an insurance company, I wouldn't pay for it either. It would just cost me money over the lifetime of the woman (and her children who are at higher risk for everything from asthma and allergies to obesity- all known to increase risk with cesareans).
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