heh heh heh...I think it depends on how much free time you have!
How awesome would it be for you to respond to their letter in kind, saying something like:
As your OB patient, I recently received your letter reiterating the discussed "risks of home delivery which may include maternal or fetal hemorrhage, malpresentation, fetal or maternal death due to complications at delivery."
As an educated pregnant woman, I have studied the literature supporting both hospital and home births, and am aware that these previously mentioned risks cited as "risks of home delivery" (homebirth) are actually the risks involved with any and all birth, transpiring in any building, be it hosptial or home, as birth--like any activity in life--involves risk to one's person.
Furthermore, it is the risks associated with obstetrical management of labor, such as risk of infection and cord prolapse associated with AROM, frequency of Pitocin-augmented labors of women who labor at hospitals, routine IVs, directed pushing, frequent vaginal exams, increased risk of operative delivery, both vaginally and trans-abdominally--for reasons both actual and percieved--and the absence of physical labor support (like a nurse to massage my back during contractions is not available; patient options are limited to pharmaceutical ones) all compell me to choose the safer birthing option for my herto normal, average, unremarkable pregnancy: home birth.
I am grateful that your practice sees the wisdom in offering emergency care if neccessary; in my opinon, that is precicely where obstetrics should focus its scope.
Then you could enclose some bad-a$$ references, or a copy of Henci Goer's book or something.
I suppose your OB sent you that letter so you can't sue them when you have a pleasant birthing experience, devoid of unwanted episiotomy and other hostile labor procedures.
How awesome would it be for you to respond to their letter in kind, saying something like:
As your OB patient, I recently received your letter reiterating the discussed "risks of home delivery which may include maternal or fetal hemorrhage, malpresentation, fetal or maternal death due to complications at delivery."
As an educated pregnant woman, I have studied the literature supporting both hospital and home births, and am aware that these previously mentioned risks cited as "risks of home delivery" (homebirth) are actually the risks involved with any and all birth, transpiring in any building, be it hosptial or home, as birth--like any activity in life--involves risk to one's person.
Furthermore, it is the risks associated with obstetrical management of labor, such as risk of infection and cord prolapse associated with AROM, frequency of Pitocin-augmented labors of women who labor at hospitals, routine IVs, directed pushing, frequent vaginal exams, increased risk of operative delivery, both vaginally and trans-abdominally--for reasons both actual and percieved--and the absence of physical labor support (like a nurse to massage my back during contractions is not available; patient options are limited to pharmaceutical ones) all compell me to choose the safer birthing option for my herto normal, average, unremarkable pregnancy: home birth.
I am grateful that your practice sees the wisdom in offering emergency care if neccessary; in my opinon, that is precicely where obstetrics should focus its scope.
Then you could enclose some bad-a$$ references, or a copy of Henci Goer's book or something.
I suppose your OB sent you that letter so you can't sue them when you have a pleasant birthing experience, devoid of unwanted episiotomy and other hostile labor procedures.
