Even with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, birth in a hospital is still safer for you and your baby than a home birth in the United States. A board-certified OB/GYN explains:
going on. The images on the media of overflowing hospitals and conflicting articles bombarding your social media feeds make it hard to tease out the facts from opinion. I know that many of my patients are petrified by the idea of. My heart breaks for my patients as I see the fear in their eyes as they ask if they should have a home birth to avoid the hospital during the pandemic. My answer to them: No, home birth is not the answer.
While it is true that, in the US, mothers attempting planned home birth are less likely to have medical interventions such as episiotomies or cesarean sections, babies born during planned home birth are twice as likely to die in the first month of life and three times more likely to have permanent brain damage than babies born in the hospital.
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