So a forced myself to leave MDC and find out what's happening in the world...and happened across the Time HB article:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...830388,00.html
Then I followed the link below it to this one:
http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...-inline-bottom
This paragraph in particular caught my eye:
"I think the single most important thing we can do to lower the rate of infant mortality is to reduce the rate of preterm birth. But in fact the trend is going in the opposite direction — that rate [in the U.S.] is increasing. There are several causes of preterm birth. One is spontaneous preterm labor. But there's another component, which is medical intervention — for example, doing a preterm caesarean section or induction of labor. That component has been increasing as well, and I think that's worrisome."
So after reading about how the doctors think that HB is a bad idea -because, basically, you're too far away from the doctors - we learn that the reason that the infant mortality rate is so relatively high here is that the doctors are performing unnecessary preterm deliveries. Huh, yeah, I think I'll stick with the homebirth.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...830388,00.html
Then I followed the link below it to this one:
http://www.time.com/time/health/arti...-inline-bottom
This paragraph in particular caught my eye:
"I think the single most important thing we can do to lower the rate of infant mortality is to reduce the rate of preterm birth. But in fact the trend is going in the opposite direction — that rate [in the U.S.] is increasing. There are several causes of preterm birth. One is spontaneous preterm labor. But there's another component, which is medical intervention — for example, doing a preterm caesarean section or induction of labor. That component has been increasing as well, and I think that's worrisome."
So after reading about how the doctors think that HB is a bad idea -because, basically, you're too far away from the doctors - we learn that the reason that the infant mortality rate is so relatively high here is that the doctors are performing unnecessary preterm deliveries. Huh, yeah, I think I'll stick with the homebirth.
