Born At Home Or The Hospital Dilemma .

In the olden times, when there were no hospitals or medicare, most mothers gave natural birth to their offsprings at home with the midwife in attendence .If the child had complications or died , it was accepted as an act of God.

In these modern times, science and technology have improved tremendously and medicine is now very advanced and what could not be saved in those days is now possible. Thanks to modern science.

In the 1960’s, when I was a small kid, most parents in my village gave birth at home.Many families were poor and could not afford going to the hospitals.

For the first birth, they would call for the village midwife . After that, the mother having learned from that experience , will just deliver the baby themselves without any midwife present.

I interviewed my mum and she told me she delivered all 6 of us by herself ,only the 1st by the midwife. It was very amazing and very shocking indeed to me.

It was the circumstances at that time that made her do that.It was like those animals giving natural birth in the wild.

Fast forward today , with all those private clinics mushrooming, going to the hospital is only for the very poor while those who could afford it ,prefered those private clinics where the health care is presumed to be better .Women today had better choices than their mother’s generations.

The hospitals are over crowded , under staffed ,shortaged of beds where some mothers had to give birth on the floor or the presence of those superbugs like in Uk.

For the present generations , the home birth option is out of question.It is frightening to even think of home birth.What if complications occur? Would the risk be greater?

There are many questions about home birth that many chosed the safer method of going to the private clinics where there are doctors on standbye.

Not much informations or encouragements or promotions for home birth but instead, women are told to give birth at the hospitals .Conflicting signals by those in the know , also contributed to the fear of giving birth at home.

Natural home birth at home is discouraged unless those parents had no choice because they lived too far from any hospital.

There are cases of those on the way to the hospital and the baby could not wait.This goes to show that you can give birth at home if you are a low risk pregnancy case.

Posted by Laura

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