Home kind of pros and cons

A photo: Getty Images In Russia, most still trust their health and the health of future children with medical workers. In some cases, this is due to the lack of negative experience, in others - the lack of necessary knowledge and a subconscious desire to shift responsibility to someone else.

Opinion "for"

Natalia had both experience and knowledge, sothe choice was made in favor of home birth. Her elder son was born in a medical institution, and her two youngest daughters were in her native walls. "We searched for a maternity hospital that would meet our requirements - without accelerating and other drugs, the presence of the husband during childbirth, the child remains with me after the birth, the umbilical cord immediately do not cut, take the placenta, no vaccinations and medical intervention without the need. At that time in our city, Rostov-on-Don, no maternity hospital could fully provide all this. Having weighed the pros and cons, I came to the conclusion that home births are suitable for me. My husband agreed, after first talking about "what if, suddenly". I had no doubts at all. I am healthy, pregnancy is normal, the fetus develops without pathologies, so in an absolutely physiological process no "what if suddenly" can not happen. And I did not wind myself with any fears, which is also important. Everything went pretty quickly and even fun, because I had a girlfriend with an adult daughter - came to celebrate the New Year and wanted to see me before the birth, which was scheduled for the calendar at 7 January. And it all started on the evening of December 30th. At four o'clock the waters went off, at 18:50 I gave birth. Her hair was loose. The decisions were made intuitively and quickly. Everyone understood each other from a half-word, without discussing. She gave birth to her, holding on to her husband. On the floor - a disposable diaper. No one fell to the floor! The midwife accepted the baby. I chose the position of the body myself - according to my state of health, just so I wanted, as if I knew that it was so necessary. In advance I did not think on this subject - I understood that the organism will tell everything. The child was slightly wiped off - we did not aspire to wash it off. With the girl, everything was in order. The umbilical cord was not cut at once. But during the evening they watched as a small wrinkled little lump looks right before our eyes! She through the umbilical cord "sucked" back all the blood, her face acquired a normal color, her skin was leveled. And when the umbilical cord is cut at once, the baby takes such a long time for a long time - a few days. "Even the midwife did not have time for the appearance of the second daughter, the girl was received by her husband Natalya.Photo: Getty Images

From those who are "against"

When you learn about such a positive experience, you begin to think about your future. But do not rush. To take such an important decision, you need to weigh everything.

It is important to remember that no matter how healthya woman, the outcome of a physiological process, like birth, no one can predict. Yes, in most cases everything ends well, but no mom will want to be in the minority. The argument "before women in the fields gave birth, and nothing" here does not work, because the mortality of babies and even mothers was much higher.

Future parents often feel that if theyinvite an experienced midwife, this will insure them from trouble. And it's good if such a midwife with the necessary education, experience, qualification is found. About the license speech does not go, because in Russia home births are illegal. The right midwife will be able to determine in time when something is going wrong, and at least able to call up a rescue team. Wrong, greedy for money, which, unfortunately, the majority, will until the last assured parents that everything is going well, despite the fact that the woman gives birth to the third day. And after the birth of a dead child, most likely, he will wash his hands. The statistics of infant mortality in home births in our country is not and can not be. But there is the Internet and the stories of experienced parents ... Information is our everything.

"Fast" under the windows, of course, an option for those,who is able to buy it. But who will be able to buy empty roads in a megalopolis, when time goes on for a minute? And in fact, no one will allow an ambulance to be standing under the windows of the mother in a situation of universal necessity. When it comes to life or death, self-deception is not worth doing.

Fortunately, modern maternity hospitals began to come tounderstanding the special importance of the proximity of mother and child. Now in most medical institutions introduced laying the baby on his stomach, applying it to his chest, joint stay, childbirth with her husband if desired. Yes, there are disadvantages, and they can not escape from them - the early cutting of the umbilical cord, the inability to be with the child from birth (the babies are first taken to inspections, etc.), the stimulation of childbirth, vaccinations during the unsettled immunity. Each mother makes the decision herself. It is important that the choice be conscious.